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...
Mental midgets?
Clinton did more to destroy the office of the president in eight years than any enemy could ever do in 50. To continue the damage by more investigations of the same investigations would only serve to make it worse. Send your money and words to J'Watch or lodge a class action and take it to the supreme court. The impeachment of Clinton was the constitutional remedy and it was only partly successful. DOJ can only follow the law, not make it.
Some things are just TOO easy
Yep like bad humor. Anyway keep on posting your rants on how Ashcroft not wanting to have a boob hanging over him is the same as Nazism.
Your paranoid hysterical rants just show you what you are.
I just think it's a really dumb move.
The statues have graced the halls since before he was born
So O.K. I reconsider, to me Ashcroft is either
A. Arrogant and stupid.
B. Puritanical to the point of asphxiation
Either way, he is currently embarassing this administration.
That's because they are not neccessarily conservatives. First and foremost,they are Bush-Bots,and the primary function of their cult is to defend ANY damn-fool thing Bubba Bush or ANY member of his cabinet do or propose.A lot of the ones on THIS particiluar subject sincerely thought the blow jobs Bubba-1 got in the Oval Office were bigger crimes than anything else he did. ANYTHING sexual is so disgusting that it just flat horrifies them.
I are having having fun at the expense of the biggest boob in Washington.
How bout you, Pete?
The statues have graced the halls since before he was born
Exactly. And How many Pictures have you seen Of Janet Reno, Shot from a position just about lying on the floor, to get the shot, they have been using ad nauseam of Ashcroft.
Zero.
That's his right, IMHO. He has the right not to be photographed with a statue that creates double entndre.
I think JA created a public image problem
Only with Libertarian/ACLU types.
I'll defer to your personal knowledge of the ACLU market. Is that why you switched to collecting cans? 'Cause I can tell you right now the art critic thing isn't panning out for you either.
Hey! WATCH IT,Buddy!
"There she was,laying back on the couch under the velvet painting of Elvis and John Wayne walking hand-in-hand with Jesus in the Holy Land. All 300+ lbs of her,decked-out out in her purple baby doll nightie. She spotted me coming in and took her teeth out of the ashtray,put them in her mouth,and them smiled and said."Heeey!"
The Reverend Billy C.Wirtz's song about his first wife,Alberta.
One of the funniest moments in fedgov history was Meese delivering his porn study in between two naked statues.
Actually, Lumpy lets the cat out of the bag in her article:
...At the opposite end of the hall, on either side of the stage, are two enormous and stylized but largely naked aluminum statues. On the left, 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. She's been fondly referred to for years by at least some as "Minnie Lou."
And she's the one the photographers seek out. The most famous pictures of all were shot when former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese proudly released the final report of his commission on pornography. No one in the Great Hall that day could ever forget the spectacle of the still photographers writhing on the floor, flat on their backs, in order to grab the shot of Meese holding up the porn report with Minnie Lou's breast over his shoulder.
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Basically, Bevvy is reporting that liberal photogs are a crowd of propaganda-producing a**holes who literally crawled on the floor to make a Pubbie look bad. Meese should have had some assistants empty buckets of kitchen slops on those little pee-ants.
However, on the bright side, this gives us leave to edit photos of Democrats, putting the "squalling baby" emblem in the background or a ripe red pucker, if we so desire.
I mean, Dan Rather didn't have a problem with a little creative photo editing, did he? ;-)
Check one:
[ ] I think JA would be in his rights to p*** on a liberal photographer lying on the floor
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