A delegate to the Texas Republican Convention opines on the latest threat to the Republic:
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
Here are the two statues in question:
Yea, looks like a real problem to me. Not.
H/T: KipEsquire
June 14th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Portrait of a typical McInsane activist: A complete, friggin’ imbecile.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Send in Agent Ashcroft to cover her up.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I object to the naked women. I don’t like rotund. Can’t we get a grinder and shave off some of the plumpness sans the breast area?
June 20th, 2008 at 1:37 am
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