Democrats are just as disconnected from reality as conservatives (one example)

As the disconnect of the politicians grows further and further from the people, I am reminded of this day in 1996 when Hillary Clinton helped to remove an art exihbit which she never even witnessed herself. How disconnected is our politicians when they wont even view the artwork which they helped to ban? I think this case illustrates it well.



Offended?



Multiple award winning London based Nigerian artist Chris Ofili (and devout christian) , in Nigeria paintings are made from elephant dung as an expression of honor, his painting of the Virgin Mary went on display in New York, A christian group got offended and said it was anti-christian and they wrote letters to get the painting banned. Cathedral Cardinal John O'Connor called Ofili's painting "an attack on religion itself." The U.S. Senate passed a non-binding voice vote to cut federal funding from the museum. While Rudy Juliani was the main driving political force behind this Hillary Clinton added her two cents worth of fear and ignorance--by declaring that, while censorship of the museum was 'not appropriate,' she would not set foot in the museum to see the offensive work and ultimately agreed to have the funding revoked for this painting which she had never witnessed.

Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili's painting the Holy Virgin Mary is becoming a political hot potato in New York - with Hillary Clinton attacking mayor Rudolph Giuliani's threat to withdraw funding from the gallery exhibiting it. Mr Guiliani has threatened to withdraw the Brooklyn Museum of Art's annual $7m grant from the city over the Sensation exhibition, which has already appeared in London and Berlin.

He took particular offence to Mr Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which depicts Mary with dark skin, African features and flowing robes. It also features elephant dung and cut-outs from pornographic magazines.

Now Mrs Clinton - who, like Mr Giuliani, is widely expected to stand for the US Senate in New York - has defended the museum.
"It's not appropriate to penalise and punish an institution such as the Brooklyn Museum," she said.

But she added that she "would not go to see" The Holy Virgin Mary and said she shared "the feeling that I know many New Yorkers have that there are parts of this exhibit that would be deeply offensive"

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I wouldn't go see it either.

he painted mary with cauliflower lips and a wobbly eye out of elephant dung. i could see the christians being upset. hillary clinton seems to have used it as a political move

edit: the bottom is kinda trippy though. also i just noticed her nipple looks like a black hole

If anyone thinks the virgin Mary was a white lady, well I got news for ya.

go fig the christians would find it offensive,The fear and ignorance rages onward!Let the crusades battle forth in glorious....... elephant dung?!!

What's with all the ass on the painting??? haha