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Today’s Challenge: Find the Non-War Criminals in this Picture!

By on July 3, 2009

This image is from a website selling the “Grand Old Gang.”

This type of idolatry is enough to make even a non-Presbyterian cringe.

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9 Responses to Today’s Challenge: Find the Non-War Criminals in this Picture!

  1. Dirk W. Sabin July 4, 2009 at 11:43 am #

    Maybe they’re all laughing because their playing with California IOU scrip.

  2. Jim July 4, 2009 at 11:45 am #

    Bingo! Great quip.

  3. The infamous Oregon lawhobbit July 4, 2009 at 12:34 pm #

    It’s the guy at the podium in the distant background. 😀

  4. Tom Blanton July 4, 2009 at 7:58 pm #

    Actually, I think they are all orgasmic with glee as Abe tells them about the time he turned the presidency into a dictatorship, suspended the constitution, and killed a few hundred thousand rubes.

    I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. This painting would look great next to my painting of Hitler, Churchill, Stalin and FDR on black velvet.

  5. Jim July 4, 2009 at 10:29 pm #

    That explains the weird grins.

  6. Brian July 5, 2009 at 6:47 am #

    As far as I can remember, neither Gerald Ford nor Ike committed any war crimes. Ford didn’t really have time and the soldier sort of knew better.

  7. Jim July 5, 2009 at 8:02 am #

    Gerald Ford signed off on Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor – which left @ a quarter million civilians dead. That is not the same level of culpability that Nixon had for ordering massive civilian bombing in Vietnam and Cambodia.

  8. alpowolf July 5, 2009 at 1:20 pm #

    “I’ll see your bet of suspension of habeas corpus and raise you a trampled freedom of speech…”

    “Ha! You call that a bet? Why don’t you wager something we value, like a military dictatorship?”

  9. W. Baker July 6, 2009 at 6:34 am #

    Jim,

    I had a look at this “artist”, Andy Thomas, who did this piece. He’s your typical Warholian-type artist – but he’s definitely on the C or D list of that group. Apparently, he hasn’t employed an expensive enough image consultant yet!

    But he definitely has the background, a la Jeff Koons. Thomas has a degree in marketing management.

    Basically, he’s ready, willing, and barely able to reinforce and/or enhance any myth that puts cash in his pocket. But to be fair that describes a good deal of domestic artists, writers, journalists, and now whole newspapers (The Washington Post). But that’s not news (sic).