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How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« on: September 04, 2012, 10:19:13 pm »
Well at least as many as fundie artist Jon McNaughton could fit on his newest masterpiece: "Obamanation". (Gosh, that pun never gets old, does it?) For the record, there's no question in my mind that McNaughton is talented. But in this one art piece, McNaughton summarizes everything that's wrong with Obama's critics on the right. Since they can't criticize him for decidedly right-wing tactics--such as his targeted assassination program, the use of drone strikes in the Middle East and Africa, and his signing of the NDAA--they focus on the most trivial and nonsensical issues such as his birth certificate (even the long form one is dismissed as a forgery by Sheriff Arpaio's goons), the return of the bust of Winston Churchill, reaching out to Muslim nations, refusing to stick up for the brutal Mubarak regime, having an Andy Warhol image on a Christmas tree ornament, correctly not labelling the Ft. Hood shooting an act of terrorism (terrorism is perpetrated against civilian targets), phony death panels, and (my favorite) telling a joke at Donald Trump's expense at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. This is the right wing argument against Obama in a nutshell.

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2012, 10:28:29 pm »
"... the country has NEVER been more divided." Nu, uh. Never, ever, ever.
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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2012, 10:29:44 pm »
Yeah, I mean it's not like there was a war over civil issues or anything.  Nope.
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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2012, 10:44:50 pm »
Have to love McNaughton paintings full of lies, you know like the whole welfare lie, and that Republicans have repeatedly blocked job bills. But McNaughton's painting are always full of fun remember kids, out of wedlock pregnancy leads to the dark side.  :P

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2012, 01:15:28 am »
damn .. Gay rights only got a wedding cake?

No leather daddies making out with swishing go go boys and dykes on bykes?

Naughton you unimaginative hack!

Has anyone thought of doing a parody of his art?
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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2012, 01:16:54 am »
The words "subtlety" a "minimalism" are clearly not in this man's vocabulary.

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2012, 01:27:11 am »
damn .. Gay rights only got a wedding cake?

No leather daddies making out with swishing go go boys and dykes on bykes?

Naughton you unimaginative hack!

Has anyone thought of doing a parody of his art?

I think someone did a version of his Jesus painting, but used Cthulu instead.   

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2012, 02:52:21 am »
damn .. Gay rights only got a wedding cake?

No leather daddies making out with swishing go go boys and dykes on bykes?

Naughton you unimaginative hack!

Has anyone thought of doing a parody of his art?

I think someone did a version of his Jesus painting, but used Cthulu instead.   

I posted this in another thread some time ago, but I'll post it here, too.

This link goes to a site that parodies his "One Nation Under God" painting.  The painting is the same as the original, but the descriptions at the side of the painting have been replaced with more humorous ones.

*Note: While the syncing between the zoom and the descriptions at the side of the painting start out fine, scrolling down will throw it off slightly.  Just thought I'd let you know.*
« Last Edit: September 05, 2012, 02:57:47 am by Iosa the Invincible »

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2012, 05:26:04 am »
In a weird and twisted way, I kind of like his art.

Sure they are full of pretty blatant lies but he has so much blatant symbolism jammed into them that it is fun to just try and spot them all and figure out which right wing talking point it is.

Lastly as much as his paintings contain nothing but lies, the freedom of the arts would not be equal if not for artists like this expressing their feelings like this. Art needs to come with the good and the bad to have any real meaning.

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2012, 06:43:19 am »
damn .. Gay rights only got a wedding cake?

No leather daddies making out with swishing go go boys and dykes on bykes?

Naughton you unimaginative hack!

Honestly, I imagine those sorts of things in every conservative depiction of gay marriage that doesn't already have it.

Because...let's face it, conservatives are thinking about kinky gay sex far, far more than actual gay people do.
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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2012, 08:17:23 am »
He criticizes Obama for his response to the BP spill and for not drilling more.

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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2012, 04:02:40 pm »
In a weird and twisted way, I kind of like his art.

Sure they are full of pretty blatant lies but he has so much blatant symbolism jammed into them that it is fun to just try and spot them all and figure out which right wing talking point it is.

Lastly as much as his paintings contain nothing but lies, the freedom of the arts would not be equal if not for artists like this expressing their feelings like this. Art needs to come with the good and the bad to have any real meaning.

Sure.  After all, if he didn't post his art, we wouldn't have something to mock ;D

Seriously, though, he is a good artist as far as I can tell, and his talents are wasted on right wing propaganda.
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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2012, 05:12:57 pm »
A visual pile of shit.
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Re: How Many Lies Can Fit in One Painting?
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2012, 02:28:21 am »
A visual pile of shit.

An interactive visual pile of shit.  Because, goodness knows, anyone viewing this art seriously can't grasp even these ham-handed attempts at symbolism.
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