From the AP:
A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing giggles from some passers-by and gasps of outrage from others.
The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit. Another mannequin dressed as John McCain emerges from a flaming chimney.
Chad Michael Morisette, who lives in the house, told CBS 2 News that drivers and bus passengers have been stopping to snap pictures of the macabre scene.
Morisette says the effigy would be out of bounds at any other time of year, but it’s within the spirit of Halloween.
He says “it should be seen as art, and as within the month of October. It’s Halloween, it’s time to be scary it’s time to be spooky.”
Whew. So glad to hear Mr Morisette explain to people that what we’re doing is art.
Because I admit I was a teensy bit worried that the Obama mannequin I have dressed as a lawn jockey and hanging from a noose secured around the tree in my front yard might be seen as something other than the entirely innocuous and good-natured bit of Halloween “art” I meant it to be.
Oh, and the burning cross I have set up beside it? All in good fun!
(h/t Bob Reed)
That’s funny cause of how neat it would be to take Sarah Palin and just kill her kill her kill her until she’s dead and all of her ideas with her. Liberals and their art are a lot misunderstood I think but it wouldn’t be art if it wasn’t challenging.
Could this spark an investigation by the Secret Service, perchance?
Just to throttle Teh Dissentâ„¢, I mean.
Baracky voters are very expressive.
He is just getting in some faces.
Also you’ll notice the Associated Press is lying again. This gay dude’s misogynist snuff fantasy isn’t “sparking controversy” in West Hollywood. They sure didn’t document any controversy in their story. I think they just liked the picture really.
According to William these people need to be beaten down.
Who am I to argue with a Ph.D?
hf, are you bucking for a press secretary spot in the O!Bama-nation?
So, if we did the same thing with an effigy of Barney Frank, or any other homosexual man, it would be considered art?
It’s interesting how they are what they accuse others of being.
I think it is kind of lame, a real artist would have her being anally raped by a huge black man.
You know, something edgy.
I think Baracky would be understood a lot more better if I were his spokesman. I do my part but then his media goes and gets everything confuzzled again and I have to start all over. Baracky is a dirty socialist I don’t understand why they just can’t accept him for who he is.
Word on the street says that Sarah Palin plans to hang an effigy of Chad Michael Morisette from the roof of the Veep’s residence next Halloween. ;)
B Moe,
I think it is kind of lame, a real artist would have her being anally raped by a huge black man.
You know, something edgy.
Given his “orientation” and where he lives, I suspect Chad Michael Morisette has already been “edgy” on more than one occasion. Capisce, paisan?
I mean, we all know that Hollywood is the epicenter of the US art scene-right?
Semi-OT: Jeff, seen this?
McGehee, Google gives that guy right up, unless there’s someone spoofing him. Hmmm….tell the FBI or his Mom Helen? Decisions, decisions..
Let’s Hang Palin. No, Nothing Unhinged There…
Via Sister Toldjah and Memeorandum: Halloween Palin Prop Sparks Controversy In WeHo
A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing gigg…
Well, as long as they’re only demonstrating hatred and murderous intent toward white people…
She did give birth to Trig. Isn’t that enough reason to hang her?
/sarc off
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Morisette gives an entirely new understanding to the term “cocksucker”.
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Morisette is probably gay. West Hollywood being what it is.
not that being gay would be bad, but being gay inoculates him from certain cultural mores so he can do what he wants as long as the outfit on the “Sarah Palin in a noose” exhibit doesn’t clash with the color scheme on the neighbors bungalows
He says “it should be seen as art, and as within the month of October. It’s Halloween, it’s time to be scary it’s time to be spooky.”
Yipee – hey gang, it’s free death threat month!