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1 posted on 12/18/2009 12:25:44 PM PST by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Totally appropriate. Turnabout is fair play.


2 posted on 12/18/2009 12:29:21 PM PST by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: NoLibZone

Brilliant! Bingo!


3 posted on 12/18/2009 12:31:07 PM PST by QBFimi2 (Ve are the New World Order; ve bring to the world dis-order. Spike Jones, 1943.)
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To: NoLibZone

Thats good! I also like goose-steppers.


4 posted on 12/18/2009 12:42:49 PM PST by PORD (People...Of Right Do!)
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To: NoLibZone

The NY Times has a long proud history of “standing behind” fisting as a great American treasure. They wrote love letters to him;

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/22/arts/review-art-the-many-roles-of-mapplethorpe-acted-out-in-ever-shifting-images.html

Review/Art; The Many Roles of Mapplethorpe, Acted Out in Ever-Shifting Images
By MICHAEL BRENSON, Special to The New York Times
Published: July 22, 1989

WASHINGTON, July 20— The first photograph in ‘’Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment’’ (yes, that Mapplethorpe retrospective), which opens tonight at the Washington Project for the Arts, is a 1988 self-portrait. Floating like an apparition in the darkness at the upper right is the pale face of the artist, who had been ill for some time; he died of AIDS in March at the age of 42. His lips are pursed, his eyes fixed. His drawn face has begun to wither.

At the lower left, the artist’s fist is wrapped around a cane with a skull knob. The fist, too, floats; because it is more sharply focused than the head, it pushes toward us. The cane and skull are phallic; a fist served as a sexual organ in one of Mapplethorpe’s most notorious images. So if this self-portrait is vulnerable and timid, it is also defiantly unrepentant. The last laugh may appear to be on him, but if you look long enough the face begins to smile.

-snip-

Mapplethorpe is not a marginal figure. On television, desire is turned loose in a hundred different directions and there is hardly a product that is not sold by arousing a wish for sexual possession and power. American culture swings back and forth between domination and submission - rushing to put people on pedestals and then rushing just as hard to prove they are indeed no different and perhaps worse than you and I.


7 posted on 12/18/2009 12:47:01 PM PST by jessduntno ("The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.")
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To: NoLibZone

eggselent


8 posted on 12/18/2009 12:47:52 PM PST by grandpa jones (Obama must be exhausted, having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time.)
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bullseye Pictures, Images and Photos
9 posted on 12/18/2009 12:49:15 PM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: NoLibZone

Maybe we should call them what they really are: Marxists, fascists, and communists.


10 posted on 12/18/2009 12:50:54 PM PST by wintertime
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CAUTION!

Reading the linked thread while drinking can cause liquid damage to your computer monitor.

I do love calling the ACORN and SEIU clowns "fisters". I would love to see someone like Ann Coulter drop that on Matt Lauer.

Someone could call Olberwomann a "fister wannabe", or maybe even a "closet fister".

11 posted on 12/18/2009 12:53:37 PM PST by magellan
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To: NoLibZone

That’s easy. The one on the right is the attractive one.


12 posted on 12/18/2009 1:57:52 PM PST by dumpthelibs (dumpthelibs)
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Hmmmm....a pic of the First Fister and Mrs. First Fister?


16 posted on 12/18/2009 6:23:24 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: NoLibZone

This is one of the funniest and most appropiate threads against the Marxist left that I have seen. For humor to be really good it has to have a strong thread of truth to it and LABELING THE LEFT-WING AS FISTERS fits the bill!

Great thread!


17 posted on 12/18/2009 8:58:43 PM PST by TheBigIf
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To: NoLibZone

The fickle fingers of fate in unity..


18 posted on 12/19/2009 12:43:56 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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