Man Questioned About Bush Yard Artwork

ABC News ^ | 3/1/2007 | ABC News

[Dallas59]

ALAMEDA, Calif. Mar 1, 2007 (AP)— Secret Service agents have questioned an Alameda man about a display in his front yard featuring a cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head.

Michael McDonald said he was grilled for about 90 minutes by two agents who asked about his personal history and his political views. They also asked him to allow access to his medical records, he said.

The cutout also shows painted blood running over the president's eyes and down the bridge of his nose.

McDonald said the federal agents asked if he interpreted his work as a threat against the country's chief executive. He said he didn't.

"They said, 'You've got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,'" McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. "I said, 'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.'"

[Dallas59]

Well...

[Yardstick]

A textbook case of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

[cincinnati65]

Guess the artist got what he wanted......publicity.

[Registered]

Should have stayed with the Doobie Brothers.

[M203M4]

The Bush piece remains in place. He painted over the president's likeness in yellow and penciled in a swastika on the chest. The knife still pierces the forehead, running through a recently added sign that says, "Anonymous."

Very...odd...

[ShawTaylor]

Of course the liberal media is going to shrilly play this story up like they are doing to the Ann Coulter story. NOT!!

[dighton]

"They said, 'You've got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,'" McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. "I said, 'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.'"

Magritte wannabe.

[Shelayne]

Niiiiice.

[hole_n_one]

Source

[M203M4]

Last year, McDonald was investigated by the Secret Service a first time for sending an e-mail to Bush telling him if he came to Alameda he would personally kick him in the backside.

Nice thing for ABC news to leave out...

[Darkwolf377]

But it's the conservative who are the hateful ones, don't ya know.

This isn't hateful, since the message is against the Evil Bush, ergo, it is not about hate but Love.

This message brought to you by the ACLU Art Institute.

[Gene Eric]

>> Guess the artist got what he wanted......publicity.

Does that make McDonald a public figure?

[Blind Eye Jones]

The secret service said that the art was really quite good and that he should get off of welfare and get a grant from the government to do this kind of thing full time, thus making big bucks and buying a big speed boat so that he could entertain all his welfare friends with tons of booze at the tax payers expense while driving around like a big shot "artiste" with a whole lot to say about everything... It happens all the time, don'tjuknow.

[weegee]

The Ann Coulter story is the biggest piece of partisan bitching I've seen in a long time.

Johnny Carson, Barbra Streisand, Dean Martin, Lenny Bruce, Elton John, and others have been recorded making "fag/faggot" jokes (saying "the word") and never suffered from Leftist banishment or felt pressured to go through political re-education.

[daybreakcoming]

I am ashamed this guy belongs to the human race. And if anyone had done the same with clinton, I would be ashamed.

[screaming eagle2]

At best it is tasteless.at most,well that's up to the viewer.Personally I think the artist need some PROFESSIONAL HELP.

[aculeus]

"They said, 'You've got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,'" McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. "I said, 'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.'"

Magritte wannabe.

Time to resurrect my tagline.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Sweet Freedom.... Rockin' Down The Highway along China Grove.