You don't like what you believe are Beck's reasons for his art so you cry racist. Boo hoo hoo.
Free speech for thee but not for me.
Continue to make Beck's point. Please.
Hopefully you'll give me an honest answer to an honest question: do you believe Glenn Beck's intention and motivation was to create art with this stunt?
His intention and motivation was to show the hypocrisy of the left
You are totally off, and I will show you why.
and he succeeded using what many consider art.
False. The act of putting something in a bottle of urine does not automatically make it art.
You're not concerned about whether Beck was creating 'art' or not,
Correct. It's not my point because he clearly did not have creation of art as his motivation.
you're bugged because you made - and continue to make - Beck's point.
I am doing nothing of the kind. His point is to shock, and inflame, for political reasons, and hatred for President Obama.
Am I making his point by pointing that out?
You say the crucifix in a jar of pee is 'art' and too bad if you are offended.
False. I said that the art world considers it art.
I never said "too bad if you are offended". People have every right to be offended if they truly believe he was insulting Jesus. The art world does not believe that was his intent, and the artist said that was not his intent. He was making a commentary on contemporary society and it's abuse of Jesus' image and his true meaning. You can read up on it, then agree or disagree whether he succeeded. As with all art, interpretation is left to the viewer.
But at the same time you say the obama bobblehead in a jar of pee isn't 'art' because you find it offensive, or racist or whatever and you don't care for Beck's motivation for making it.
Not because I find it offensive. Because his intent was to offend, not to create art. I am not even going to get into the artistic plagiarism aspect.
Don't you see, Synth? The point is that you found the obama art offensive and haven't stopped whining about it. That's the point Beck was making, there's the hypocrisy. I don't see you complaining about the crucifix in a jar of pee just about the obama one. Why? Because you find that to be offensive; the crucifix in a jar of pee was hailed as art by critics so you find that to be ok. Just because you don't like the art that is produced doesn't mean that someone shouldn't be able to produce it.
No, I find Glenn Beck offensive, and I find his shock jock antics offensive. There is no Obama art here to be offended by.
Are either pieces art? Not in my opinion. Are either pieces offensive? They both are to me. Should Serrano or Beck (or anyone else) be stopped from producing offensive art? I say NO!, what say you?
I think most legitimate art is crap, so I do not purport to be an expert by any means. I am not
personally offended by either Serrano's art or Beck's expressed hatred. There is some art that I would prefer not to see, like Maplethorpe's erotic homosexual photography; or biblical scenes of mass killing.
You must keep in mind the thread title:
Why Real Americans Despise Glenn Beck. You might say that Real Americans (or at least Christians) also despise Andres Serrano. I think both statements are
overwhelmingly true.
