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Posted on 01/28/2002 6:14:04 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Fed up with having his picture taken during events in the Justice Department's Great Hall in front of semi-nude statues, Attorney General John Ashcroft has reportedly ordered massive draperies to conceal the offending figures -- which have been displayed since the 1930s!
The draperies were installed last week at a cost of just over $8,000, reports ABCNEWS.com's Beverley Lumpkin.
At the center of the controversy: two enormous and stylized but largely naked aluminum statues.
The female figure represents the Spirit of Justice; the male on the right is the Majesty of Justice. The male is clad in only a cloth draped over his essential parts; the female wears a sort of toga-style garment, but one breast is entirely exposed.
Last November, during a press conference announcing new challenges of fighting terrorism, Ashcroft was photographed with the naked breast right over his shoulder!
The snap ran in major papers.
Developing...
Or,at least she gets to take the blame for it.
I'd rather him resign and be remanded into the custody of a mental hospital.
What about all of those 400 yr. old paintings of nude fat women? Not exactly "chic" by today's standards. You might almost call them "dated".
I wouldn't want my picture on the front page of every paper, but if it was, the statue wouldn't bother me. If it did, I'd just move the podium.
Anyway maybe they can't change where he holds press conferences, due to logistical reasons.
That is a possibility, but I doubt something as trivial as moving a podium is impossible.
That statue is another FDR legacy, I could do without.
I'd prefer to work on undoing FDR's influence in government policy first, and worry about this statue later.
Okey Dokey, remind me when you are AG and I will be right there to take the same kind of picture and give to it all the papers.
It is so easy to criticize from a far, isn't it.
Well if you are going to bitch don't forget FDR. That statue probably cost more than $8,000 in today's dollars.
Oh I get it. Since FDR blew tax money for aesthetic reasons, it’s OK for Ashcroft to blow tax money for aesthetic reasons. Very Clintonian reasoning you got there, Eleanor. (Clift not Roosevelt.)
Btw, would you like to be in a picture Ashcroft is in on every front page in America?
Not if it was associated with an article about my spending taxpayer money because boobs scare me. The juxtaposition would be too embarrassing.
If it was accompanying an article about me actually doing something important in service to the country or constitution, I couldn’t care less if the statue behind me is showing her nips.
Now that would be something worth taxpayer $$$ to conceal.
Why? Are you getting lonely?
No, but then I'm not a repressed creep who thinks Republicans can do no wrong and that nudity is dirty.
You didn't have to tell us. Most of us could tell.
From my dictionary:
Prude:a person who is overly modest or proper in behavior, dress, or speech, esp. in a way that annoys others
Talking to the nation in front of a national landmark? Why would anyone feel anything but proud?
Not Clintonian, just being fair.
And a one, and a two...
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