“You Will Never Go Broke Underestimating the Intelligence of the American Public” – PT Barnum Or (HL Mencken)

In what will be one of many, the weeMichelles have been brought into the zaniness that will be the first campaign, an artist’s exhibit was shutdown after he used a word that you are not to use related to presidents or presidential candidates in this country. Yes, free speech is not absolute.

The exhibit included a picture of Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” switched to “The Audacity of Black Hope.”, a giant penis on the wall next to a sign saying “once you go Barack”, hanging nooses, and this picture of Sasha and Malia Obama.

The artist’s response:

“My mission as an artist is to raise dialogue and conversation about substantive things,” he says, staring through arty glasses that did not have any lenses. “There’s so much media time spent on superficial things — like celebrities. My point is to bring substance back.” – LA Times

I am pretty sure he would not have used a caption like this over Chelsea Clinton’s picture.


To be fair, they did make some pretty offensive statements about her, as well, even some rude ones about her coarse hair.

Thanks to LeeSee for making me throw up in my mouth this morning—which I mean in the good way, you know, the thanks-for-pointing me-to-the-site way, not the bad thanks-for-making-me-throw up-in-my-mouth way. (Is that really bad?)