Jon McNaughton's New Painting 'ObamaNation'

You may remember artist Jon McNaughton for his previous political works of art depicting 'One nation Under Socialism', and 'The Forgotten Man' showing President Obama's trampling of our Constitution.

His latest new work is out, entitled 'ObamaNation' and you can see a large, full size version here together with his commentary and an interactive view that highlights each symbol.

Absolutely stunning.

Gore Vidal , 1925-2012: Vile Anti-Semite and Left Wing Fantasist Leaves The Building

Writer Gore Vidal died yesterday in Hollywood at 86, and the fact that the left is gushing over him is quite a giveaway. Pravda-on-the-Hudson's description of him as 'the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization' might be true. But he was also a vile, caustic human being, an overt and outspoken anti-semite and left wing conspiracy theorist who hated his country and expressed it frequently.

To give you an idea of the man's true flavor, here's his comment on the the thirteen-year-old rape victim Roman Polanski drugged and sodomized in Jack Nicholson's hot tub: “I really don't give a [expletive]. Look am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's being taken advantage of?”

Talented writer? Yeah, when he was writing fiction. But a miserable human being in many ways who's now left the building.

Below is his encounter with William F. Buckley, where Buckley took exception to Vidals' championing of the Viet Cong ( who were not only committing massive terrorism against their own people, but shooting at our troops) and calling Buckley a 'crypto-Nazi' :




If anything, Vidal was far closer to being a fascist in the true sense than Buckley ever came close to being.

Buh-bye.

Jon McNaughton's Latest Painting 'One Nation Under Socialism'

Artist Jon McNaughton, whose last picture showed President Obama stepping on the Constitution before an aghast audience of former presidents has a new work out, entitled 'One Nation Under Socialism' which depicts a glowering President Obama holding our Constitution as it burns.

Your thoughts? You can see the picture above in the video the artist put out.

"The Book Of Mormon" - Artistically Sanctioned Bigotry

There's a new musical out right now entitled "The Book Of Mormon" that's been quite successful on Broadway. The show was created by South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and has garnering a large share of Tony Awards while the soundtrack, which includes songs like "Turn It Off" and the particularly foul "Joseph Smith American Moses" is at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

I haven't seen the play, nor will I. Listening to the soundtrack and seeing a few short promo clips told me everything I need to know about this particular piece of work.

As a Jew, I easily recognize demonization done in the guise of 'humor' when I see it. What the creators of 'The Book of Mormon' have done is to create a modern day minstrel show, complete with all the cute little bits of bigotry disguised by catchy tunes and cute dialog.

Particularly vicious 'fun is made of the Mormon's prophets, their missionary work and their history, and I don't think it's at all a coincidence that we just happen to have a member of the LDS as the Republican frontrunner and the possible nominee to run against Barack Obama.

The Mormons have endured hateful bigotry during their history in America, including the lynching of their prophet, Joseph Smith. Their reaction was to pick up and move across country into unknown territory where they could worship as they chose and to create a New Zion in the middle of the wilderness by the Great Salt Lake, one they built themselves from scratch. Instead of living on their knees or accepting defeat, they pioneered, triumphed and prospered. And again, as a Jew that is something I can relate to.

It was and is a uniquely heroic part of our American story, and to mock it the way "The Book Of Mormon" does is simply disgraceful.

Not only is this blatant bigotry, it's cowardice as well. I guarantee you that Trey Parker, Matt Stone and the other people associated with this garbage would never dare put on a similar show like this about Islam entitled "The Qu'ran".

There are a fair amount of members of the LDS in my particular neck of the woods,including my congressman, Buck McKeon. The ones I know are almost universally hard working, self-sufficient, and patriotic, with strong values and close knit families who make ideal neighbors.

As such, I guess they make an easy target.

For what it's worth, I stand with them. They do a great deal more for the country and are a lot more valuable than the sort of people who produced a horror like "The Book of Mormon", who I'd say ought to be ashamed of themselves if I even remotely thought they had the capacity.

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