Bush's Mug Shot Brings Controversy to NYPL

[Up2Late]

This is too funny, I saw the AP Video story of this at the Comcast .com homepage (but couldn't find it at the AP Video page) in which they exclaimed that the New York Public Library exhibit sparked "Outrage!" Yet they only showed and interviews ONE guy who said he didn't like it. I guess the AP has a very low threshold for "outrage" these days. I'm posting this story from what I think is an small website because, it's one of the few sites that has the picture up front. If you want to see the true political bias of the so-called MSM, check out all the different headlines at Google News!:evilgrin:

<http://news.google.com/news?q=Bush+Mugshot&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn>

November 29, 2007

Bush's Mug Shot Brings Controversy to NYPL

(See the picture at the link above, I don't want to crash their server by posting it here)
EDIT: Here it is, thanks to "No Surrender" and "havocmom" for uploading the photo to their photo hosting sites.



An exhibit at the main branch of the New York Public Library
is drawing outrage from Republicans because some of the work
on display depicts former and current members of the Bush
administration posing for fake mug shots. Each official in
the visionary series, called “Line Up”, is seen holding a slate
with a date of arrest corresponding to a date when the official
said something about Iraq that was not “reality-based.” Matthew
Walter, director of communications for the state GOP, told the Daily News:

It is simply inappropriate to have political attack art, in the form
of egregious doctored photographs of the President and other high-ranking
officials who have dedicated their lives to public service, in a
taxpayer-funded building frequented by schoolchildren and the general public.

No wonder conservatives are always ready to cut budgets for libraries –
they’ve become places where an innocent schoolchild’s allegiance to
public servants like George Bush and Karl Rove can be egregiously
corrupted. Of course, it’s important to note that “Line Up”, by artists Nora Ligorano
and Marshall Reese, is part of a much larger exhibit called
“Multiple Interpretations: Contemporary Prints in Portfolio”,
which includes prints from 23 different artists on a wide variety
of themes. Among them are artists like Olafur Eliasson, who is the
subject of an upcoming retrospective at MoMA, as well
Ernesto Caivano, whose decidedly apolitical "Knight Interlude"
consists of twelve prints depicting a knight transforming into a tree.

Herb Scher, the director of public relations for the NYPL, spoke
with Gothamist and stressed that "the library collects work from
a wide range of political satire going back centuries. This work
fits into that tradition of caricature. At the NYPL we document
what is happening in the culture and political satire is important
to have in our collections to document for future scholars."

Nevertheless, we can expect the mug shots controversy to spread
and are counting the minutes until Giuliani starts reliving his
“Sensation” glory days by chiming in. What do you think –
should the city slash the NYPL’s funding and burn all the art
books or just let the liberals enjoy their ineffectual little
fantasy at taxpayers’ expense?

<http://gothamist.com/2007/11/29/bushs_mug_shot.php>

Here's the link to the Comcast .com Homepage if you want to check out the video I mentioned, you'll see it to the right at this link:

<http://www6.comcast.net/a/?cookieattempt=1>

[Benhurst]

1. "the President and other high-ranking officials who

have dedicated their lives to public service ..." What bullshit! Dedicated their lives to shredding the constitution and robbing us blind is more like it.

:puke:

[Up2Late]

3. Well that was a quote from the "director of communications for the state GOP" so...

...what would you expect? To him, they are all doing a great job for his fellow ReThuglicans.

[City Lights]

2. I loved the pic of the preznit so much I added it to my photobucket:

[Up2Late]

6. Have you ever run into the dreaded "download limit exceeded" problem at Photobucket...

...when posting something here? Would you mind if I used that pic for the OP?

[City Lights]

7. I've never received any errors message, so feel free to add it to your OP.

:-)

[Up2Late]

10. Cool, Thanks!

Btw, The New York Daily News has all the other pictures too at the link for their "photo gallery" at this link:

<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/29/2007-11-29_library_exhibit_features_mug_shots_of_pr.html>

[havocmom]

4. Saved the pic and uploaded to photohosting site for ya

(That's how you get around swamping somebody else's site and stealing their bandwidth ;))

[Up2Late]

5. Wow, now I don't know which one to chose to post in the OP.

Have you ever run into a "download limit exceeded" at the site you use?

[havocmom]

8. Not yet, but I figure I am pushing my luck with unflattering pics of DimSon

:D

Edited to add a possible reason for his fear of horses: Poppy and Babs put him on a dead stuffed one when he was small

[havocmom]

9. YOU need to 'save image as' on your computer, then upload to your own accout

at a photo hosting site. That is the polite way to post pics. Don't steal other's bandwidth. They may get pissed, change the photo in their account and make you look foolish or like a perv ;) It's happened around here.

[Up2Late]

11. Yeah, I know, but that takes so long that, when I've done that in the past...

...several people had already beaten me to it. I have a Photobucket account, but it's been so long since I last used it, I've forgotten the password.

I've since found a low-tech solution to lost passwords and log-on info that I'd like to share with everyone here. It's called my old Rolodex! It's the perfect solution to the problem, and since I never really used it much over the last 20 years, I had plenty of extra blank cards in it.

Just thought I'd pass that tip along.:7

[havocmom]

12. Not enough room on Havocdad's desk for a rolodex

I keep passwords in my address book ;) Have done it for several years now. Just get some note paper for my day book, slip a bunch in and poof! Memory for da momma.

Rolodex is a great solution... for those with some desk space.

[Up2Late]

13. kick n/t

:kick: