Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Michael Friedman is a Weenie

Painting amid `Controversy’: “The piece in question is a painting depicting President Bush being sodomized. Artist Alfred Phillips said images of an oil barrel and a man wearing a Muslim headdress in the work are part of a political statement about the United States being abused by oil companies.

“Michael Friedman, the artist who complained to the county, said the painting is offensive and tasteless.

“‘Something snapped inside,’ he said. Friedman entered a piece depicting Pope Benedict XVI with several swastikas in the background.”

Maybe that snapping sound Friedman heard was his one remaining brain cell burning out.

Like a picture of Benedict XVI among swastikas isn’t potentially offensive and tasteless?? For those of you unfamiliar with the new Pope’s past, Benedict was forced to join the Nazi party when he was a young man in Germany. He let his party membership lapse when he was able to do so. People could easily infer from Friedman’s painting that Benedict was enthusiastic about the Nazi philosophy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Benedict’s opposition to Naziism is well documented and beyond doubt.

Likewise, people might infer from Alfred Phillips painting that George W. Bush actually enjoys being anally probed by the Sauds (and the Kuwaitis and…well…pretty much anyone who’s willing to sell oil cheap.) I’m not saying this is true, but… most people in those kinds of “relationships” at least try to get dinner and a movie out of their dates before they get fucked.