Why Is Ronald McDonald Being “Ghosted”

In case you missed our conversation on the air this morning here's a sad bit of news for fans of decent clowns everywhere. Sadly, one of America's favorites has been pretty much ghosted these days due to the public's disdain. Yes, Ronald McDonald has been sidelined and is no longer in the spotlight that he has basked in since the early 1960's. It seems that since 2016 he has been pushed aside because of the movie "It". If you recall the movie featured Pennywise the sinister clown that haunted and taunted little kids and brought them to his underground lair in the sewers of a small Maine town. Pennywise was not a happy go lucky clown and was not one you would hire for your kid's birthday party. There were other menacing clowns in various movies that pushed the likeability factor all the way to down to the bottom and with that fear of clowns was sky high. There were sinister clown sightings all over the world inspired by movies with very bad clowns. These evil doers with ill intent would dress as scary clowns and just stand on the street corner holding balloons and scaring passer byes to the heavens. That was all it took for McDonalds to ghost Ronald and not have him be so present. Now you don't see him on tv commercials or pretty much any promotional ads. That's too bad, because all he ever did was try to make people happy. In fact, The Ronald McDonald House for Children has raised millions of dollars over the decades and has helped family with very sick kids afford the necessary hospital and ancillary bills that come with it. McDonalds isn't clowning around At the time McDonald's made a statement to say it is being 'thoughtful in respect to Ronald McDonald's participation in community events' as a result of the 'current climate around clown sightings in communities'.  The craze even led best-selling U.S. horror author Stephen King, whose 1986 novel IT tells the story of a supernatural being that appears as a clown, to appeal for anti-clown sentiment to be tempered. 'Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria - most of 'em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh,' King wrote on Twitter. If you ask me, Stephen King is very much responsible for the disdain of good old clowns, it's funny how he knows his mind is responsible for the irrational fear of them and is almost apologetic about it.