Last night I went to a friends house. He was hosting a cast party for a show he's in. The main room we're doing our social thing in has a table with food in the center and arrayed around it are the small groups of people talking about this or that. Prominently displayed on one wall is a picture. The picture are photos and paintings of 6 famous people.
First, is Judas Escariot. Then, there's Mary Antoinette, Rasputin, Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, and finally Bill Clinton. It's obviously a witty commentary because you have what is a collection of disreputables and grouped with them is Clinton, infering that he belongs to this group. Beneath his portrait is printed: "Coming soon". Witty, no doubt, but lost on the person putting these tyrants together on one canvas is the irony, and boy is it rich.
It is most obvious the policital leanings of the 'author' of this work. The person, in grouping Clinton with the bad seeds is suggesting that he is too and nobody hates the Clintons more than the Right. The irony? Excepting Clinton (who was a Centrist, and in the eyes of some, more conservative than liberal), and Judas.... is that all those tyrants are conservatives. They support the status quo and represent what is most heinous about the Right. I'm sure it is lost to the 'author' of the work because in lumping Clinton with them he is making a political statement. He didn't betray Christ, he didn't lead the nation into wholesale slaughter of a minority, and he didn't go on Salem-style 'witch hunts' for a perceived Communist threat. He messed around with an intern. It's so ironic because excepting Judas, all the others are right-wing. It's funny because in trying to condemn the Left in a witty fashion, it is the Right that is ridiculed.
First, is Judas Escariot. Then, there's Mary Antoinette, Rasputin, Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, and finally Bill Clinton. It's obviously a witty commentary because you have what is a collection of disreputables and grouped with them is Clinton, infering that he belongs to this group. Beneath his portrait is printed: "Coming soon". Witty, no doubt, but lost on the person putting these tyrants together on one canvas is the irony, and boy is it rich.
It is most obvious the policital leanings of the 'author' of this work. The person, in grouping Clinton with the bad seeds is suggesting that he is too and nobody hates the Clintons more than the Right. The irony? Excepting Clinton (who was a Centrist, and in the eyes of some, more conservative than liberal), and Judas.... is that all those tyrants are conservatives. They support the status quo and represent what is most heinous about the Right. I'm sure it is lost to the 'author' of the work because in lumping Clinton with them he is making a political statement. He didn't betray Christ, he didn't lead the nation into wholesale slaughter of a minority, and he didn't go on Salem-style 'witch hunts' for a perceived Communist threat. He messed around with an intern. It's so ironic because excepting Judas, all the others are right-wing. It's funny because in trying to condemn the Left in a witty fashion, it is the Right that is ridiculed.
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