WASHINGTON (AP) – Emotions continue to run high after Jon McNaughton, a controversial artist who often mixes religion and politics in his work, released a new painting depicting President Obama reading the Constitution.
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Entitled “One Nation Under Law”, the portrait shows the President thoughtfully contemplating the wisdom of the limits the Founders placed on the powers of his office.
Jerry Saltz, an art critic for New York Magazine, Saltz said that the painting contained “bad academic derivative realism,” calling it “typical propaganda art, drop-dead obvious in message” and describing it as “close to the hate images produced in the Jim Crow era.”
Obama campaign adviser David Axelod called it “degrading and racist.”
“This painting suggests that the President is subservient,” said Axelrod, “and must not act without written permission. It’s just another example of the extreme right-wing wagging a finger in the face of this country’s first African-American President, warning him not to get too ‘uppity.’ It’s saying that a black man should know his place, and that he’s subject to the rules of white men who owned slaves. It should have been titled ‘Uncle Tom Gets a Whipping'”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it was “just an extension of the deranged birther accusations.”
“Here we have a President,” groused Reid, “holding what appears to be a poorly-reproduced short-form copy of the Constitution, instead of the original long-form document. Not the least bit subtle, is it? It’s the sort of blatant misrepresentation we’ve come to expect from these extremists.”
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz said she was “mortified and offended” at the message the image sends.
“There should always be limits on power,” said Schultz, “and if the pen is mightier than the sword, then the paintbrush is an assault rifle, just like the ones banned by the Second Amendment. Coercive power like that needs to be tightly controlled with checks and balances.”
I’m not sure that I understand the last sentence. I didn’t know the second amendment banned any weapons.
Alan: it’s there to show that Slutz doesn’t understand the 2nd amendment…
Wait… Did I spell her name wrong?!?
sigh.
this is why you fail.
If you put the original Constitution in an oven, a secret onion-juice written text appears which says “…except for guns that are scary-looking. And by ‘people’ we don’t mean PEOPLE people.”
Harvey, this is just too good. You’re not just on a roll – you’ve gone ballistically atmospheric!
(as opposed to engaging in some kind of unballistic motion…)
democrats are stupid. And I am redundant
I bet if it was the exact same painting but it was GEORGE BUSH!!!!!!11!1!!!1!, that Saltz guy would say it’s the most profound piece of…art… in the history of history.
This guy is a terrible ‘artist’ by the way, why didn’t Saltz just say that? Oh that’s right, he’s a liberal puke.
“Coercive power like that needs to be tightly controlled with checks and balances.”
The journalistic equivalent of a rim-shot. Ba-dum-ching!
Bravo Harvey!
You know what else, 4of7, Harvey has a way of making stupid people sound smart even when they’re not making any sense.
I read this post again and laughed again. Thanks, Harvey.
You guys are making me blush…
Don’t stop…
Harvey! Harvey! Harvey!
I’m gonna legally change my name to Jim Crow. Then whenever Democrats pull out their Jim Crow race card mantra…..Bam! Lawsuit!
Harvey has a dream that one day Obama will one day smack his forehead and exclaim “You mean it’s a government of checks AND balances? D’oh.”
wholy Crap. So anything ever said about the failure that is our president must be racist- because every non-african american in this country is racist by birth and the only reason we want Obamster out of office is because he is black.. nothing else matters- we do not like what he is doing to our country- he is black so we must be racist folks.
To paraphrase Neil Gaiman,
“I have always felt that political correctness was the last refuge of the incompetent, and accusations of racism the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”