Commentary by Gavin B.
Two Tahitian Women. National security alert: There's naked ladies in the National Museum of Art!
Police say Susan Burns, 53 of Alexandria VA, tried to pull a painting called “Two Tahitian Women” off the wall, at the National Gallery of Art then started punching the painting with her fists. The painting is by the renown French painter Paul Gauguin.
Susan Burns- Self styled right-wing art critic
According to police the Ms. Burns made the following statement after her attack on the painting :
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'I feel that Gauguin is evil. He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned. I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.'"
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Well put Ms. Burns!....And that crazy Tea Party icon, Michelle Bachmann, is behind you 100%. Congresswoman Bachmann suggests you carry a gun on your next visit to the museum, so you can hold off the police while you demolish that homo Gauguin painting once & for all.
Seriously... don't you think that conservatives are going a bit overboard with their cultural jihad? If Susan Burns has a radio in her head, she should stop tuning in the Rush Limbaugh Show.
The Nazis may have burned books, but at least they had the common sense to put all the valuable works of art into storage so, they could raffle them off to pay off any future Third Reich budget deficits.
I'm guessing that right wingers never knew that paintings of unclothed subjects have been hanging on the walls of museums because they never bothered to visit one.
I can hear John Boehner now, "The won't be any naked ladies in the National Museum on my watch!" Apparently Republicans are unaware that Jesus never got the chance to sail to Tahiti, so he could tell all those bare breasted tribal women to stop flaunting it.
Don't worry about the fate of Susan Burns. The Lord will forgive her for her act of crazed vandalism and she'll land on her feet. I'm seeing a Tea Party nomination for one of the Virginia seats in U.S. House of Representatives in the feisty Ms. Burns' future. Until she makes the Virginia 2012 ballot, she make ends meet with a gig working for Rupert Murdoch as the Fox News resident art critic.
I can only quote rock music's Man with the Plan, Elvis Costello, on the current rise of lunatic behavior among right-wingers in America: "
I used to feel disgusted, now I try to be amused."
Since Ms. Burns claims to have a radio in her head telling her to destroy evil works of art, I thought the Talking Head anthem for delusional loonies,
Radio Head would be an appropriate selection for today's song. This one is dedicated to Susan Burns & the well armed legion of Tea Party radio heads everywhere.
Radio Head by the Talking Heads
Baby your mind is a radio
Got a reciever inside my head
Baby I'm tuned to your wavelength
Lemme tell you what it says:
Transmitter!
Oh! Picking up something good
Hey, radio head!
The sound...Of a brand-new world.
So look at my fingers vibrate
From their tip down down to my toes
Now I'm recieving your signal
We're gonna leave the land of noise
Transmitter!
Oh! Picking up something good
Hey, radio head!
The sound...Of a brand-new world.
Transmitter!
Oh! Picking up something good
Hey, radio head!
The sound...Of a brand-new world.
Now you and I have no secrets
Now baby, lemme read your mind
I hear ev'rything you're thinking
You can't help the way you sound
Transmitter!
Picking up something good.
Hey! Radio head!
The sound...Of a brand-new world
Oh! Radio Head
Radio Head
Radio Head
Radio Head