Texas Republican, father of 14, vows to fight D.C.'s "shocking" nude statue problem!!!1

[Bluebear]

Washington is a town filled with boobs.

They're everywhere, from the bare-breasted ladies who decorate the fountain at Dupont Circle to the peekaboo statue in the Justice Department's Great Hall to the countless nudes in our museums. But while those of us who live here hardly blink at the public nudity, it can shock some of our visitors. Such was the case for Robert Hurt, who last week tried to add the issue of artistic indecency in the nation's capital to the platform of the Texas GOP....

"The Lady Godiva thing -- that's what it conjured up, and that's not what our country's about," he said.

Hurt notified his elected officials of his concerns but believes nothing was done. While he said he respects free speech, "I believe art affects a country indirectly. I have been studying the decline of morals in this country. It's sending the wrong message to children that nudity is fine, that nakedness is fine. . . . There are degrees of vulgarity, and it opens up the door for the other stuff."

The platform committee did not adopt Hurt's recommendation on Washington nudity (nor his proposal to extend the 22nd Amendment -- presidential term limits -- to spouses). But Hurt said he'll pursue the issue, possibly with another trip here to videotape the evidence. "I'm not going to stop until I succeed. I'm prepared for a long fight."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502188.html

[Blue_Tires]

1. i thought Ashcroft already took care of those offending human shapes

[MountainLaurel]

11. Just the ones at Justice

But there are nekkid statues all over D.C.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. John Ashcroft eloped with one of those nude statues

And is now living in a tropical paradise, having forbidden and taboo statue sex with the object of his overpowering lust.

[XemaSab]

3. So he's going to go around videotaping nude statues

then he's going to go home and repeatedly watch the video while putting together a "highlights" clip for other prudes? :shrug:

Interesting...

[Ian David]

4. Anything to get him out of a house filled with 14 kids, I guess. I suppose that next...

... he'll want to do something about all those churches, too.


"Thank you, god, for my fabulous little penis."
"Put that thing away... please... not in front of the cherubs."

[Buns_of_Fire]

26. Why, Adam has a little purple pee-pee!

(I usually don't notice these things in religious pictures. Really, I don't.)

[Leopolds Ghost]

33. According to people like this guy, Catholicism is the Great Whore because of pictures like that

[comtec]

49. Well.. that IS true...

but not for HIS reasons ;)

[Spooky_D]

5. His time would be better spent getting a vasectomy...

N/T

[bowens43]

6. Wow. Ignorance can be an amazing thing.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. The word 'moron' cannot be restrained from falling from my mouth

[spinbaby]

56. No, no, no...he's not a moron.

What we have here is a stunning example of a moran.

[Donnachaidh]

8. Do they really have to allow goobers like this to BREED in Texas?

Come the frig ON already!

The guy has 14 kids? I wonder if his wife has any breasts left? It's quite obvious that dear little Bobby Hurt has a screen name somewhere that rhymes with Hunny. :sarcasm: No fixating on anything and everything even remotely sexual in THIS goober's brain, right? Right? :sarcasm:

My condolences to his wife. :puke:

[Spooky_D]

9. His wife is probably just as big a dipshit as he is...

N/T

[KansDem]

10. Give me a break!

My first glimpse of a female nude was the statue of Venus located in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. It made quite an impression on this prepubescent!

[Ikonoklast]

12. That's great news! I hope he spends all his money doing it!

We should encourage these fundie nutjobs to waste all their time and money on useless pursuits.

He's a 'Promise Keeper'.

'Nuf said.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. Speaking of Promise Keepers.

I was once in the office of a guy who was wearing a polo shirt with "Promise Keepers" embroidered on the front.

He had a TV on a stand in his office.

Underneath the TV there were videotapes.

I noticed (from several feet away) that the box of one of them had the title "Black - White - Anal".


:wtf: Goddamn hypocrites. :rofl:

[Duncan Grant]

13. I wonder if he knows about the internet?

It's infested with "the Lady Godiva thing".

(And people vilify the elitists...) :eyes:

[gkhouston]

14. There's a statue at Dupont Circle? I didn't know that. Guess I've always

been too busy trying not to get my ass run over to look for statues. Maybe if he goes back to videotape the evidence...

[malaise]

16. Good fugging grief

what is wrong with these blasted Puritans?

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Bodies scare and offend them. They are just biding their time here until they can become

non-corporeal.

[Indenturedebtor]

18. Hahahahahaha what a moron. I am too often reminded of the Dark Ages nowadays

As soon as x-tianity set in people were running all over Yurp breaking the faces and genitals off of statues.

What a bunch of morons. No wonder Yurpan civlization went to shit for 1k years. Bunch of morons like this running around.

"Think of the children!" Yeah think of the children you asshole. I barely got any time with my parents and I only had 2 siblings. I hereby revoke this idiot's license to speak. His idiocy is a hazard to the mental well-being of both children and adults.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. No, Lady Godiva isn't what Republicans are about

because her naked ride was to stop the unfair imposition of taxes on the common people by their rich overlord: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva

A Republican would have told them to pay up and shut up.

[EFerrari]

20. Is it safe to assume Mr. Hurt has never set foot in any major

art museum?

I wonder if he showers with his clothes on.

lol

[Mr. Blonde]

58. "I wonder if he showers with his clothes on."

There are dozens of us ma'am, dozens!

[a la izquierda]

59. god in heaven.

i love that show.

[MilesColtrane]

60. He's probably also an Analrapist.

[LSK]

21. father of 14??????

He didnt have a problem stopping fucking but now hes scared of nude statues??????

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

24. He always did it in the dark & fantasized about the Venus de Milo to excite him

[Jim__]

22. What could possibly be more obscene than nude statues!

:crazy:

[Sal Minella]

23. Having fourteen children, maybe???

[hyphenate]

25. I'd love to hear what he thinks

of the Italians. :rofl: Schmuck.

BTW....did that robe Ashcroft put on the statue ever come down? I'd be curious to know if she's been unveiled again. We all know justice is blind, but covering up her boobs is a whole different matter!

I also guess this guy never participated in any kind of art class.


On a slightly more serious note, if "God" had intended us to stay dressed up, he wouldn't have brought us into the world naked!

[FreeState]

27. Statues are now a gateway drug to vulgarity?

"There are degrees of vulgarity, and it opens up the door for the other stuff"

Wow... Like Statutory rape? Like this....

[kenny blankenship]

30. I always said marble was really hardcore,

compared to soapstone anyway.

[FreeState]

31. Yeah I prefer the harder ones - soapstone tends

to crumble easily and then the statue changes sex on you:) But, if thats your thing....

[usaftmo]

45. You owe me a new keyboard!

:spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray:

[Diclotican]

48. FreeState

A male have to do what a male have to do when the need arise:evilgrin: Poor devil, pity this moose don't "got" it that it was just a statue..

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language

[lpbk2713]

28. The horror ... The horror.

Kurtz: "We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders
won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"

:eyes:

[TroglodyteScholar]

29. I came up with the solution to this back when Ashcroft was in office...

..and Jeff Gannon was king:

[Leopolds Ghost]

32. "The Lady Godiva thing -- that's not what Americans about." No -- Swiss heroine & freedom fighter.

Definitely anathema to a Texas Baptist mouth heretic and prig.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

34. Will Squeezy McFeelpants be joining him next time?

Bowm-chikka-bowm-bown

Oh yesssss :rofl:

Kicks may keep getting harder to find, but kooks are everywhere.

Blue! :hi: :hug:

[Bluebear]

35. Imagine. Stone breasts being "tittilating" enough to protest!

And he's going to videotape the "evidence"....to watch over and over and over! :hi: :hug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

36. Now that I have *zzzzzip* thoroughly reviewed these...

*lights cigarette* disgusting videos *exhale* I have concluded, I must review them again. :D

[Initech]

37. Father of 14?

He can get it on, but seriously, you'd think he'd be the last guy offended by the sight of a naked breast.

[Batgirl]

38. Nice job Republicans on your re-branding efforts, you're the whackjobbiest

Usually when a company wants to reinvent their brand it's because their old brand is just no longer working for them. Maybe their product was found to cause scurvy or cancer. Maybe consumer tastes evolved in a different direction.

Or maybe it's just something minor like their brand being associated in the public mind with warmongering, corruption, religious zealotry, racism, contempt for the impoverished, contempt for the middle class, recession and national bankruptcy.

In this case, it seems logical to think brand reinvention would involve doing the opposite of the behavior that has earned mass public disapproval, currently to the tune of 75% negatives. But it seems like the geniuses in charge of creating a new identity for the GOP are doing something completely counterintuitive: escalating the failed brand with renewed gusto.

I mean, we had those racist buttons being sold at the Texas GOP convention. We've got the Bush GOP trying to start another Middle East war, and just recently they had an opportunity to ignore another huge flood. This guy with his naked statue problems is so Ashcroft-like, one hopes that even now he's planning to write and perform his own "Let The Boobies Soar" ditty that can be emailed around the globe several billion times.

What else might be on their list of greatest hits, things that went over like a lead balloon the first time? Terri Schaivo: Maybe they should invade a hospice and insist on hooking all the residents up to feeding tubes. Social Security privatization: why wait for legislation, can't Bush just decree it? And instead of wearing a wire during debates like Bush, McCain's consultants should just have their voices piped in over the loudspeakers to feed him the answers.

[ljm2002]

39. I find it shocking...

...that in this day and age there are still men who would subject their wives to bearing 14 children, and that there are women who would go for it.

Truly shocking.

[readmoreoften]

40. OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT STATUE.

Do something now or there will be a wave of orgies to deal with in the upcoming 1st grade field trips to D.C.

[tekisui]

41. Expose yourself to art.

http://www.amusicology.com:8080/amusicology/publishable-scholarship-on-the-run/reference-documents/ExposeYourselfToArt.jpg

[Bluebear]

42. LOL!

[Arugula Latte]

46. The buy in the trench coat is Bud Clark -- former mayor of Portland, Oregon.

:thumbsup:

[tekisui]

54. Thanks for the info.

I recently bought this poster at a yard sale. I thought it was too good to pass up.

[Arugula Latte]

62. This is what art.com has to say about it:

"A man shows a statue his private collection in M. Ryerson’s hilarious “Expose Yourself to Art.” Future Portland Mayor Bud Clark and Ryerson came up with the idea of Clark flashing the statue over a beer then held a caption-writing contest for the title. Scrounging up money to print the poster’s initial run, they sold 800 copies the first day and 250,000 copies over the next five years."

I recall the people I babysat for in the early 80s had this poster on the back of their bathroom door. :)

:hi:

[NC_Nurse]

43. If he doesn't like the human body...how'd he get all those kids?

:eyes:

Geez, what a fool!

[Charlie Brown]

44. wow, he's going to videotape the evidence

That will certainly rile the part of the population who aren't aware that there are art museums in DC. :eyes:

[oedura]

47. What a dipshit...

Somebody should kidnap this guy and cover his body in Russian prison tattoos. That'd teach 'im. :D

[MiniMe]

50. That guy's ass is so tight, he must have a hard time crapping in the morning

Dear Sir,
Get over yourself. Don't ever let your kids go to Europe. This is as ridiculous as wanting to bad books because they don't agree with your positions.

[marmar]

51. Good gawd I'm ashamed to share a nationality with these people......

.... What would this troglodyte do if he visited Europe? He'd probably go into shock!.......Then again, I doubt that this troglodyte would ever visit Europe.

[Irreverend IX]

52. "I have been studying the decline of morals in this country."

I suspect that his "studies" involve viewing large amounts of kiddie porn on his computer.

[jmowreader]

57. He has, huh?

So apparently he didn't notice that all these statues were made when America had the Puritanical morals he likes, and not the eeeeeeeeeeeeeevul modernistic lib'rul morals he detests.

[PA Democrat]

53. It seems the cretin doesn't think wives are separate people from their husbands either.

his proposal to extend the 22nd Amendment -- presidential term limits -- to spouses."

[HughBeaumont]

55. Adjectives FAIL me.

Absolutely Amazing and Astounding.

This is the sort of thing fundamentalpatients worry about.

Seems to me they need to have more going on in their lives than eight religious channels and multiplying the stupid like rabbits.

[LeftinOH]

61. All your tits are belong to us!!!