This Made Me Feel Good

14 Comments

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   RandyH on August 24, 2011 at 7:05 pm

   But but but….

   It’s the White House!

   What will we do? President Blackidy black black black can’t go hanging paintings about racism in the White House!

   (Limbaugh has a long-overdue heart attack)

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   TarheelDem on August 24, 2011 at 7:11 pm

   Let’s just see Rush make a stink about Norman Rockwell (Stan Freeberg’s “skinny kid with a pipe”).

   That’s like attacking Lawrence Welk for playing subversive music.

   OT: The mystery is solved.  The official dictator’s passport says “Mohammed Moammar M. alGathafi”.

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     centerfielddj on August 25, 2011 at 9:49 pm

     But it’s true! Why did Norman Rockwell hate white Americans?

     <snark>

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   Brendan Skwire on August 24, 2011 at 7:52 pm

   i am, in fact, very angry with your hero today: removing Eric Schneiderman so the banks don’t have to pay makes me sick to my stomach, especially when i think of the thousands of families like those of Bridges -poor, disemfranchised, struggling to make it- who will be fucked. And I think it’s embarrassing, but unsurprising, that you’ve ignored it.

   but this is a good post, at least when it comes to symbolism.

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     BooMan on August 24, 2011 at 11:50 pm

     removed him?

     I’ve been busy today.  What are you talking about?  

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       Indianadem on August 25, 2011 at 12:32 am

       According to some reports, pressure was brought against Schneiderman by the White House and Donovan at HUD.

       Eric T. Schneiderman, the top prosecutor in New York, was removed on Tuesday from a committee of state attorneys general investigating mortgage abuses.

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     seabe on August 25, 2011 at 12:58 am

     W/e. For this I’ll quote Charles Davis:

     I couldn’t find a case of a single foreclosure stopped by the sainted Eric Schneiderman, sadly. I did, however, find that he wants to further rollback medical privacy — in the name of fighting the evils of drug abuse, of course: http://www.ericschneiderman.com/news/latest?id=0222

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   Death to Randroids on August 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm

   Obviously, Limbaugh will accuse Obama of racism for displaying a painting that includes the word “nigger”.

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   Second Nature on August 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm

   I just saw this on exhibit a few months ago at the art museum. I’d seen pictures of it before but I have to say that seeing it in person is much more powerful…there are a lot of details you can only see in the original full size painting.  Rockwell mainly did idyllic whitebread scenes, but this was a very powerful statement and I’m glad I saw it.

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     Lodus on August 24, 2011 at 10:19 pm

     Yeah… it’s interesting we remember Rockwell for his Sat. Evening Post stuff, but some of his pieces pack a punch. He wasn’t just a saccharine Thomas Kinkead-type.

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       MassCommons on August 25, 2011 at 7:29 am

       Here’s an article and video clip from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s website about Pres. Obama and Ruby Bridges visiting the museum before the painting was transferred to the White House:

       http://www.nrm.org/2011/07/president-obama-meets-with-norman-rockwell-museum-staff-at-white-house/

       You can see highlights from the museum’s collection—including “The Problem We All Live With”, “Freedom of Speech”, “The Golden Rule”, “Murder in Mississippi”, “Freedom from Want”, and “New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburbs)”—starting here:

       http://collections.nrm.org/search.do?highlight=9

       One way to think of Pres. Obama’s approach to politics is that he conducts himself in such a way that the children and grandchildren of Norman Rockwell (and his fans) will vote for him.

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   TarheelDem on August 24, 2011 at 10:48 pm

   Another OT:

   Here is the Libya Draft Constitution released by the TNC. (PDF, 10pp)

   And here is the beginning of the discussion on one random blog linked from a tweet.

   After the Jamahiriya: TNC Draft Constitution (The Moor Next Door)  The comments are an interesting if not necessarily representative discussion.

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   joe from Lowell on August 25, 2011 at 12:03 pm

   Since this thread is all over the place anyway:

   Have everyone seen the video of Rick Perry answering a question about the civil rights movement?

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/rick-perry-civil-rights_n_933420.html

   I don’t think I’ve seen anyone note the most important part of his answer: he clearly has no idea what he’s talking about.  He has nothing whatsoever to say about the subject.  He plainly doesn’t know anything about the history of the movement, and doesn’t care to know.  His answer is the behavior of someone doing a tapdance, trying to sound knowledgeable and thoughtful without anything to say.

   That’s why he made that awkward, unfortunate transition to taxes and regulation: to get himself back onto familiar territory.