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Friday, June 13, 2008

Texas Republican Wants To Remove Nude Art From DC Museums, Public Buildings

This is the sort of Republican that gives Republicans a bad name.

HOUSTON – Robert Hurt went to Washington and didn’t like what he saw – nudity in the nation’s capital.
“Nude women, sculptured women,” he told the state Republican platform committee, which sat in rapt attention.

Of all the evils in Washington that the Texas GOP took aim at this week, removing art with naked people from public view was high on the list for Mr. Hurt, a delegate from Kerrville.

“You don’t have nude art on your front porch,” he explained. “You possibly don’t have nude art in your living rooms. So why is it important to have that in the common places of Washington, D.C.?”

Mr. Hurt offered statistics: He’d heard that 20 percent of the art in the National Gallery of Art is of nudes.

He offered detail: On Arlington Memorial Bridge overlooking the famed national cemetery, “there are two Lady Godivas, two women on horses with no shirt on and long hair.”

Actually, they are classical sculptures about war – one called Valor, depicting a male equestrian and a female with a shield, and Sacrifice, a female accompanying the rider Mars.

I heard that Lady Liberty is naked under that toga too, the trollop.

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She’s French you know.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on June 13, 2008 at 10:21 am

First the kids. Then the art. Things are getting more than a little waco in Texas.

ews48 on June 13, 2008 at 10:36 am

As someone who considers himself a libertarian-conservative, I just have to shake my head. This is the kind of stuff that just plays into the media’s strategy of portraying conservatives a bloated, sweaty, biblie-thumpers.

Wing Chun Geologist on June 13, 2008 at 10:41 am
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I think the GOP needs to put Ron Paul in charge of fielding these questions. I think that would be fun to watch.

However, if not, I’ll offer my decisive two cents.
If the nudes are “hot”, they stay.

Rob B. on June 13, 2008 at 11:08 am

Eh, one delegate out of nearly a thousand.  Of course, this is what the media focuses on, not any of the serious discussions regarding the state party’s platform.  If the platform committee actually adds it to the agenda, then that would be news.  Otherwise, this is just another attempt to paint all conservatives and republicans with a broad brush by cheery-picking.

kbiel on June 13, 2008 at 11:29 am
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Need to let this go.
Maybe the countries fuel supply or something like our open boarders would seem just a little more important.

dm on June 13, 2008 at 12:31 pm

I always have to wonder about guys like this.

I’ll bet if you were a fly on the wall in his bedroom or his fantasies you’d probably need therapy - after a long hot shower.

Wonder what he’s hiding?


Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

Pilgrim on June 13, 2008 at 02:04 pm

Wonder what he’s hiding?
Pilgrim on June 13, 2008 at 02:04 pm

Either he is homosexual has a mistress, or is a pedophile.
It will not be long before we find out.

ellinas on June 13, 2008 at 02:33 pm

Anyone that hostile to nekid women is seriously F-ed in the head. The question is, why did they throw his ass out of Kerrville?


Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on June 13, 2008 at 02:47 pm
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