{"id":40174,"date":"2012-11-28T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=40174"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:01:25","slug":"everything-that-is-loathsome-about-our-creative-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/11\/everything-that-is-loathsome-about-our-creative-class.html","title":{"rendered":"Everything That is Loathsome about Our “Creative Class”…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026all in one repellent, narcissistic, dishonest, bullying, cowardly sack of skin.\u00a0 Meet Michael D\u2019Antuono <\/a>and his bold transgressive[TM] painting, \u201cTruth\u201d:<\/p>\n

Get it?\u00a0 Barack Obama crucified!\u00a0 Is that bold and transgressive or what<\/em>?\u00a0 Really makes you think, don\u2019t it?\u00a0 Especially if you are one of those bourgeois types who can\u2019t take a punch in your pieties.\u00a0 Man, is Michael courageous!\u00a0 Just ask him:<\/p>\n

\u201cI always regretted cancelling my exhibit in New York because I feel my First Amendment rights should override someone\u2019s hurt feelings,\u201d D\u2019Antuono told Fox News. \u201cWe should celebrate the fact that we live in a country where we are given the freedom to express ourselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes.\u00a0 You are, you narcissistic twit.\u00a0 But freedom to express yourself does not mean that somebody owes you a venue to do it.\u00a0\u00a0I could, if I like express myself in filthy limericks punning on your name.\u00a0 I might even succeed, if there is any justice\u00a0 in the universe, in hurting your precious feelings, which badly need hurting if only so that you might develop some\u00a0empathy for the strangers you gratuitously kick in the groin as you seek the applause of your fellow high school sophomores, you sociopathic pinhead.\u00a0But I would be a big a dunce as you if I felt wronged because the New York Times<\/em> would not put my dirty punning limericks about your name on their front page.\u00a0 I\u2019m free to express myself.\u00a0 Others are free to ignore me and are by no means bound to give me a forum for my nose-pulling juvenalia.<\/p>\n

Unhappily, some other gallery picked up this worthless piece of crap, so our Artist declares vindication:\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the art gallery told Fox News there hasn\u2019t been any criticism of the painting.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Antuono said the public exhibition \u201chas afforded me the ability to right a wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the universe owed the Sophomore a display of his refrigerator art.<\/p>\n

He dismissed critics who called the display blasphemous.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crucifixion of the president was meant metaphorically,\u201d he told Fox News. \u201cMy intent was not to compare him to Jesus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah.\u00a0 So it was to compare him to Mohammed.\u00a0 Or Confucius.\u00a0 Or William Baden-Powell.\u00a0 Because crucified figures wearing a crown of thorns are a dime a dozen and any connection some hyper-sensitive Christian might make is *their* fault.\u00a0 Narcissism: check.\u00a0 BS passive-aggression: check.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Antuono blamed the controversy on conservative media \u201ctrying to promote the idea that liberals believe the president to literally be our savior.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blame-shifting: check.\u00a0 \u201cHey! You got aqueous humor jelly all over my finger when I poked your eye out with it!\u00a0 I am so *sick* of how sensitive Christians are when I pee on them and tell them it\u2019s raining.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of his aborted first attempt \u2013 the artist said he received more than 4,000 emails containing messages that were \u201canything but Christian-like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I accepted that it is their right to express themselves and hope that they now see it in their hearts to afford me the same right,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Annnnd a final bit of passive-aggressive cowardice and hypocrisy.\u00a0 This, being\u00a0translated, means \u201cI have a perfect right to kick you in the shins as hard as I can.\u00a0 If you respond with anger to my bullying cowardice, I will accuse you of being judgmental, but will lie about my magnanimity in order to afford cover for me to kick you even harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael D\u2019Antuono:\u00a0you are a living testament to everything that is most disgusting about the \u201carts community\u201d in your posing self-regard and bullying hypocrisy.\u00a0 Next time, try a painting of say, Obama killing children with a predator drone if you *really* want to be all Brave and Transgressive.\u00a0 Christians don\u2019t issue fatwas, you gutless coward.\u00a0And your Suffering Savior is murdering innocent civilians.\u00a0 That\u2019s truth.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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