Sounds like a case of assuring a non-hostile work environment to me. The leftists should be quite happy, assuming that they're consistent.
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To: John Jorsett
... agreed ... the leftists should be quite happy ...
2 posted on
01/26/2002 10:08:13 AM PST by
_Jim
To: John Jorsett
What are the statues going to look like with their new "clothes"? Seems excessive to me, but as you say, its just taking the "lets not display anything which will offend anybody" idea to its logical conclusion.
To: John Jorsett
Sadly this will play big with the media.
Couldn't Justice have done something else, like use another room? They simply have got to rev up their thinking on these matters.
5 posted on
01/26/2002 10:15:05 AM PST by
aculeus
To: John Jorsett
This is pretty funny. I wonder when the Pope will have bathing suits painted on those people on the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
6 posted on
01/26/2002 10:23:59 AM PST by
FITZ
To: John Jorsett
Stupid. The American people recognize that sculpture is art and the only ones who are tittilated by these antics are the reporters themselves. When the general American public sees a piece of statuary like this they either recognize it as art or don't even notice it as just part of the background.
It's stupid to let the press manipulate you into something like this over something that only exists in their minds.
8 posted on
01/26/2002 10:26:08 AM PST by
Arkinsaw
To: John Jorsett
Well I guess I was right. Ashcroft is a dork. parsy.
(BTW, why didn't somebody throw a blanket over Janet Reno???)
9 posted on
01/26/2002 10:29:22 AM PST by
parsifal
To: John Jorsett
They noted that former spokeswoman Mindy Tucker always hated the statues; Mindy told me Thursday it was her view that half the women in the department were offended by them and the other half considered them art.
,br> Well, I guess this is a lot of background to get to the point: the draperies have in fact been ordered. Minnie Lou and her mate now can only be imagined. The draperies installed last week at a cost of just over $8,000.
Now Ashcroft will have succeeded in doing the attempted work of the leftist media by portraying himself as a complete idiot. Also, one half of the women in the offices consider the statues art; the other half are just plain nuts.
10 posted on
01/26/2002 10:32:06 AM PST by
aruanan
To: John Jorsett
It must be Saturday.....
To: John Jorsett
At first I thought this must be a story in The Onion, but it is ABC news.
To: John Jorsett
Finally, a man to stand up for decency in art! I've started to wonder if I'm alone with my view that these semi-nude statues and paintings are just plainly offensive, no matter how accepted they have become over the centuries on the walls of Roman Catholic churches.
To: John Jorsett
"a big Art Deco feature."
Art Deco - the Nadir of American artistic style.
Personally, I don't have a problem with naked statues. On the other hand, ANYTHING which aggrevates liberals has my support!
22 posted on
01/26/2002 10:51:11 AM PST by
ZULU
To: John Jorsett
$8,000? Hope he doesn't come to Virginia for a photo op our State Seal might show up in the pictures.
23 posted on
01/26/2002 10:51:48 AM PST by
R. Scott
To: John Jorsett
It's not easy being a statue in a world full of pigeons.
26 posted on
01/26/2002 10:55:58 AM PST by
Dallas
To: John Jorsett
I think Ashcroft has more important things to do, like, say.....
see justice done in the matter of campaign finance corruption, which means Chinagate, which means espionage, which means danger to our national security. Or maybe with the matter of the shareholders of Loral being fined while the CEO, the real criminal in the matter, skates free.
Oh, that's right, in this area there is no justice at Justice. Better spend your time covering statues, you sanctimonious fraud.
To: John Jorsett;tex-oma
LOL. We'll hold people in prisons for indefinate periods of time without charging them with crimes but it would be wrong to see a breast. There's more than alittle wrong with that picture.
31 posted on
01/26/2002 11:24:44 AM PST by
Demidog
To: John Jorsett
Why don't they just put the speaker's platform on the other side of the room? Does anybody know if the art will be on display when there are no press engagements? It would be sad that taxpayers can't see what tax dollars bought.
35 posted on
01/26/2002 11:54:01 AM PST by
Brad C.
To: John Jorsett
Any confirmation of this? This smells like an urban legend in the making.
38 posted on
01/26/2002 1:05:10 PM PST by
Dimensio
To: John Jorsett
Okay, gotta admit it. This is too funny...
Attorney General John Ashcroft,
under the Spirit of Justice statue
in commemoration of the Life and
Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
on Jan. 17. (Joe Marquette/AP Photo)
I would love to see the picture of Meese
To: John Jorsett
stupid.
45 posted on
01/26/2002 3:55:21 PM PST by
ken21
To: John Jorsett
Although covering these statues is something I probably wouldn't do, I'd sure rather have that mindset running the government instead of one that puts condoms and crackpipes on a Christmas tree.
I still don't understand how Ashcroft squares a stance like this on one hand with the pre-emptive strike against pro-lifers on the other. (Save your fingers if you want to tell me that he was just enforcing the law. You don't have to go get court orders to stop people from praying before an event even happens if you're just enforcing the law.)
MM
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