Conservative Women’s Group Rips RNC Over Bondage-Themed Nightclub

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/democratic-national-committee/conservative-womens-group-rips-rnc-over-bondage-themed-nightclub/

The news that nearly $2000 in RNC funds were spent on a bondage-themed nightclub seems on the verge of creating yet another major headache for RNC chair Michael Steele.

The latest: A conservative women’s advocacy organization — one whose members donate to the RNC — is demanding answers. Penny Nance, the CEO of Concerned Women for America, which boasts half a million members nationwide, emails:

“Did they really agree to reimburse nearly $2,000 for a bondage-themed night club? We have several questions. For the RNC: Why would a staffer believe that this is acceptable, and has this kind of thing been approved in the past? And for the Democratic National Committee: Do you believe that it is appropriate to use tax dollars for pornographic exhibits like the ones recently funded by the stimulus bill?

“Please explain to Republican and Democratic women if and why you think it is appropriate to promote pornographic enterprises? As women we find the very idea of officials from either party approving of endeavors that objectify and demean women outrageous. This kind of behavior is not appropriate for national leaders that our children should be able to look up to as role models, and that our daughters could be working for.

“Did you really swill drinks, ogle young girls and plan party business at this kind of establishment? Please explain!”

Yikes! That last line should really make GOP donors happy. The central question right now seems to be: How did this expenditure of RNC funds get approved?

[tallahasseedem]

1. They are all turning on each other...

and I couldn't be happier.

[opihimoimoi]

2. WTF is she doing dragging the DEMs in this??? ITS THE RNC..its your own GOP

[sfwriter]

5. Because there is no line between art and porn to them...

every nipple is sacred.

[opihimoimoi]

11. LOL...Love the Nipple Ref :o)

[daleanime]

9. Don't they always do that?

When ever a repug gets in trouble, it's always about the system and Democrats are part of the problem. But when it a Democrat in trouble it's his/her lack of morale standards.

Your leaders are sleaze balls, deal with it:evilgrin:

[opihimoimoi]

10. Bullies are KNOWN to do this...."They do it TOO"...its dilution of guilt by pointing

LOL

The GOP ARE Sleaze Balls...maybe Sleaze Boogers Too

[arcane1]

3. "pornographic exhibits"??

What's that all about?

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Wait. Which "pornographic exhibit" was funded by the stimulus bill?

Anyway, it's unfortunate that this sort of pearl-clutching isn't limited only to Christian Right whack-a-doos.

There are plenty of self-appointed censors of public morality on the so-called "left" who are more than happy to align themselves with the CWA when it comes to stuff like pictures of consenting adults fucking.

[kestrel91316]

7. I have no idea. Maybe they're still in a snit over Mapplethorpe's "Piss Christ"??????

[Tesha]

13. "Piss Christ" wasn't by Maplethorpe, it was by Andres Serrano.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

Roughly speaking, Mapplethorpe did the homoerotic stuff. You know,
what the Republican men use when they're *NOT* at the Lesbian/Bondage-
themed strip club.

Tesha

[kestrel91316]

16. Mapplethorpe didn't do "Piss Christ"?????????

I feel like I did when I found out 2 or 3 years ago that Peter Frampton did NOT die back in 1980 of a drug overdose like I would have sworn on a stack of bibles that he did.......

[Tesha]

19. Sorry, no. But I know how you feel; that (feeling of being certain but being wrong anyway)...

...is an all-too-common human experience. It happened to me just the
other day with a bit of pop music that I would have bet money was by
Todd Rundgren, but wasn't.

Tesha

[starroute]

14. All you have to do is google on it

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread486950/pg1

The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.

The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.

But some of the NEA's grants are spicing up more than the economy. A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."

[Warren DeMontague]

15. "four men, three women and a gorilla"

I'm not sure if I like those odds.

[Tesha]

21. One of the women is Sarah Palin, and she's got a gun!

Or maybe she plays the Gorilla.

Tesha

[sfwriter]

6. Man, I thought they were going to underbid the competition...

Ann Coulter alone has dominatrix written all over her.

Hmmmm... couldn't find an image of that that wasn't NSFW.

[proud patriot]

8. wheeeeee heee heee !

[ShortnFiery]

12. Good, I love it when our opponents fight among themselves.

Popcorn! :popcorn:

Drinks are on me ... :toast:

[Nikki Stone1]

17. Actually, Concerned Women should do this. Sexism is a problem across the board.

Good for them.

[Politicub]

18. "What?! Well, I never!"

"It can't be true, but it's even on the 'news! I'm shocked. Shocked! What could be worse than this? I'm still in disbelief about dear leader Rush Limbaugh getting hooked on satan's pills," said crazy GOP lady.

[Canuckistanian]

20. They obviously don't realize what went on in the BACK rooms

Objectifying and demeaning is sometimes a two-way street.

[SpiralHawk]

22. "Shut up, take your shoes off, and get back in the kitchen." - Republicons

"That's quite enuf out of you uppity, free-thinking entities of the female persuasion." - Republicons (R)