GOP mad at another artist - at a lawyers' art show

[donsu]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/20/BAGV0DQLCS1.DTL


Painting of U.S. in toilet raises GOP hackles
Attorney general asked to remove work in state-owned building


A painting of the United States sinking into a toilet now on display in the cafeteria of the state Department of Justice has raised the ire of the state Republican Party, which is demanding that Attorney General Bill Lockyer remove the image.

The painting -- part of an exhibit of more than 30 works by lawyer artists and pieces with overt legal themes -- has an American flag-painted continental United States heading into a toilet. Next to it are the words: "T'anks to Mr. Bush."

The artist, Stephen Pearcy, a Berkeley lawyer with a house in Sacramento, won earlier notoriety for hanging an effigy of an American soldier on the outside of his home here with a sign saying "Bush lied, I died." Angry residents tore the effigies down.

"I don't know why we need to tolerate the cheap artwork of a gadfly with a world view that is so offensive to a majority of the people," said Karen Hanretty, a spokeswoman for the California Republican Party.
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Karen is a prig, among other things

awarding Stephen Pearcy a medal of valor and a thank you for your damn fine art

[Lautremont]

1. Ooh, a "gadfly."

Is there no insult too ugly to be uttered by the Republican mouth?

[hobbit709]

2. Once again the GOP

thinks the first amendment only applies to them.

[pelagius]

3. It sounds like an awful piece of "art"...

...on aesthetic grounds, but the antidote to bad ideas is always better ideas, Ms. Hanretty. Whaddya got?

Oh, yeah...sorry to put you on the spot like that.

[Supersedeas]

4. so why should the Republicans tolerate free speech