George "DumbBellYou" Backs "Little Mussolini"
Bush Jr. Demonstrates Intellectual Acumen, Supports Ban on "Virgin Turds"
by Mac MacArthur
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That's the way, DumbBellYou! Back a Nazi-- while urging another Nazi lover, Pat Pukeanan, to stay in YOUR party.
What's next? Your list of "Books to Be Burned"?
Of course, Bush, who has spent his life dodging cow and horse turds, hasn't seen the painting-- he is relying instead on his voracious reading habits and intellectual curiosity to decide. "...From what I've read, the exhibit besmirches religion,'' Bush said during a campaign stop with Governor George "Do Nothing" Pataki. "It denigrates someone's religion. I don't think we ought to be using public moneys to denigrate religion.''
We wonder if BushBaby would be upset if a portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini was the subject instead--perhaps with a cow patty planted firmly on his turban! Or how about Saddam Hussein or Moammar Khadafi?
No way! Benito and DumbBellYou would welcome these masterpieces. Better yet, they might increase funding for the Brooklyn if the painting was a nude of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore adorned with cattle feces, wouldn't they?
Hey-- I'm Catholic, but I am not offended in the least by the "African Virgin Turd." That's because I took the time to inquire of the artist. His statement had nothing to do with an editorial on the Blessed Virgin.
His artistic comment had to do with the link between Christianity and the herding tribes of Africa--which not only walk among the elephant turds, but actually use them to build their huts, seal their cheese crocks and adorn their bodies. They do NOT find turds offensive--in fact, they regard them as a substantial sign of fertility and well-being.
Now, we do feel the Church has a right to protest. That's their job. Anything threatening the sanctity of the Blessed Virgin is to be examined. However, what would the Holy See say, if a painting of a gourd with some fruit on it was titled "The Blessed Virgin?" Would they think that was an attack against the mother of Jesus, or a wonderful underlining of her fertility?
The blustering seems to concern the turd itself, not the Blessed Virgin--as if the Church and Benito Giuliani have any idea what Mary looked like. How do they know that she did not, at any time or in a different form, paint her body with the excrement of cattle or even elephants, as many Africans actually do as sign of worship?
Il Duce Giuliani (or is it "Il Elephant-Doo-Che"?) and "Shrubya" Bush are simply attempting to use the large Roman Catholic population in New York State as a tool for both of their Satanic and unconstitutional political gains.
The imbecilic-looking Governor Pataki, who is starting to resemble a disheveled David Letterman of late, also got into the act, saying, "That's right. When you use public money to denigrate someone's religion, I think it's wrong."
Oh, we're sure that the artist was attempting to denigrate someone's religion. While we're at it, we might point out that it was the missionaries who helped enslave and torture Africans. They denigrated Christ and Mary's memory and message by robbing Africans of their history, their religions and their safety while shoving Christianity down their throats and slavery into their reality.
So here's a question for Benito, DumbBellYou and Governor Clueless: who was TRULY denigrating the teachings of Our Lord?
Of course, the Clintons--who are far smarter than Republicans drawn to TV cameras like moths to a flame--are against Benito's painting burnings.
White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said yesterday that President Clinton agrees with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who opposes Giuliani's position: "The President has indicated that he supports the First Lady's position, and my understanding of the First Lady's position is... while she would find this objectionable she wouldn't see it -- she doesn't ... agree with the action that the Mayor's taken."
"We do have a grand tradition of freedom of expression in this country and a rich cultural art and humanities history that I think should not become part of-- or be attacked in-- the political context,'' Lockhart said.
But the Virgin Mary and the Brooklyn Museum prevailed--as we knew they would.
Now that Giuliani and George W. have stupidly made the Brooklyn Museum stop number one on any art tour of New York City, and increased contributions and entry fees to the museum by tenfold, maybe the museum won't need their financial support! That's the way Benito sees the city budget, by the way-- as HIS treasury. Of course, he's wrong, and cannot cut off the Brooklyn Museum's funding as easily as he claims.
That takes City Council action. And, who knows? Maybe the museum will generate enough attendance, buzz, and philanthropy that they will be able to do without Benito's bucks--and tell him just what to do with them.
And there's another bright side. new Yorkers are not stupid--they know pure political elephant dung served up as only the GOP can.
-- Mac MacArthur (a good Catholic boy)
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