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In reply to the discussion: If Norman Rockwell heard LaPierre's presser... [View all]proReality
(1,628 posts)22. Yes, it says that it's one painting that spoke to the president personally.
And that's about all it says.
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The NRA, Gun Apologist And Right Winger Wet Dream All Rolled Into One Image - Too Sad
cantbeserious
Dec 2012
#1
I like the idea of National Guardsmen in every school. I was not a Norman Rockwell picture fan
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#2
Yes, it is the ONE of almost no others. Is it any surprise that is the ONE our President uses here?
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#8
But his work said otherwise. I don't much care if he is or isn't personally, it is irrelvant
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#9
The New Yorker, who paid Rockwell and whom he did this for, was national
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#28
Yes, you can find ONE or two rockwell paintings with blacks, but that is a token effort by him
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#4
PHONY SMEAR YOU ARE MAKING-100% OF MY POSTS THERE ARE ANTI-GUN, ANTI-NRA
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#13
I want an apology-you are 100% wrong here. I am what you are. And i am also 100% anti-NRA,gun
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#15
I have been on YOUR SIDE in almost all of the posts you have made here,especially the anti-gun ones.
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#19
Why? You don't like what the Guard did when LBJ signed the Civil rights acts?
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#11
I await your apology for smearing me. Kent state has NO relation to this
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#16
I could put up 1000 drawings from the Sat. Evening Post that aren't what the 2 or 3 are.
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#40
It was his job* and he was paid to produce those kind of images for The Saturday Evening Post.
Botany
Dec 2012
#41
Funny how people can write pages of disagreement over a picture like this...
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#32
Yes - one of the many roles art plays. It helps stimulate thought process. It is also odd that
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#34