My ex-wife asked me what I think about the “art” exhibit known as “Axis of Evil: The Secret History of Sin,” and I had to admit that I’d not heard of it. So I looked into it and found out that “Axis of Evil" is another of those so-called “art” exhibits where the main goal of the… ahem… “artist” … is to incite the anger of conservatives and the praise of liberals.

It's not art. Let's get that straight right off the bat. The goal of the "artist" is NOT to create art or express something. The goal of the artist is simply to enrage people he disagrees with. Those who defend the "artist" are really only defending him or her because they have the same political enemies as the artist. Nobody actually enjoys this kind of "art." Even those who support it really just enjoy seeing us conservatives get our panties in a knot. That's really what it's all about: "Let's see how worked up we can get those closed minded, jack-boot neo- Nazi conservatives today." I tend to believe that the best way to deal with these idiots is to ignore them.

You remember Andres Serrano from a few years back? He’s the moron who put a crucifix in a bottle of urine and photographed it for art’s sake. Remember Chris Ofili? He’s the waste of oxygen who felt that pornographic clippings and elephant dung were an appropriate medium to represent the Virgin Mary. Well, “Axis of Evil” is more of that same kind of crap. It's primarily the work of one Michael Hernandez deLuna. The “art” of this genius and his buddies, as displayed at Columbia College, is really something:

The Columbia exhibit features 47 artists from 11 countries and depicts powerful religious and political leaders worldwide on mock postage stamps. One, called "Citizen John Ashcroft," shows Ashcroft's face fashioned from images of naked bodies at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Another piece -- "I saw it in a movie starring Steven Segal" -- shows a series of images of an airplane nearing, then crashing into the Sears Tower, and ends with the Chicago skyline without the skyscraper.

The exhibit drew the attention of the Secret Service, due to a series of stamps that deplicted a gun held to the president’s head:

A Secret Service spokesman, Tom Mazur, would not say Tuesday whether the inquiry had been completed or whom the Secret Service had interviewed, but he said no artwork had been confiscated. "We need to ensure, as best we can, that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement," Mazur said.

Hernandez has drawn the attention of the authorities to himself before:

In 2001, authorities said they suspected (that Hernandez) was behind a bogus stamp that bore a black skull and crossbones and the word "Anthrax." It was sent through the mail during the height of the anthrax scare... Hernandez refused to talk about the 2001 incident... that shut down an area of Chicago's main post office. Hernandez and another Chicago artist routinely sent fake stamps through the mail, then sold them for thousands of dollars.

This, of course, has the leftist morons and their “artist” buddies ranting and raving about Big Brother:

"It frightens me ... as an artist and curator. Now we're being watched," Hernandez said. "It's a new world. It's a Big Brother world. I think it's frightening for any artist who wants to do edgy art."

So anyway, I read those articles and planned to send a quick e-mail back to my ex, agreeing with her that these “artists” were idiots, but probably not mention it here at the blog… then something occurred to me:

Lately the left has been raising a lot of hell because Tom DeLay suggested that left-wing activist judges would eventually answer to a higher authority:

DeLay did express regret for saying, after the death of (Terri) Schiavo, that the judges who refused to reinsert the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube would one day "answer for their behavior."

Democrats have criticized DeLay's remark, which Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said could incite violence against judges.

So Tom DeLay expresses his opinion about leftist judges and is lambasted for saying something that could be misinterpreted as an encouragement of violence against judges, and DeLay has to apologize. Alright, fine… but what about this idiot piece-o-crap “artist” with his postage stamps showing a gun held to the president’s head?? Maybe I’m kinda jumping to conclusions here, but do you think that an image like that might… oh, I dunno… ENCOURAGE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT??!?

Nah, couldn’t be. After all, Tom DeLay is a Republican, and therefore, everything he says is wrong. Michael Hernandez deLuna and his buddies are artists, and if I think their work incites political violence, that just indicates that I’m a closed-minded, jack-boot neo-Nazi conservative who doesn’t understand their sensitive form of expression. Right? RIGHT??!

Remember when liberals were patriotic? Remember FDR? Well, cherish that memory, pal… because FDR was the last liberal worth a damn that this country ever produced.

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Further reading:

Michelle Malkin -- Unhinged Liberal Products For Sale

Brad Edmonds -- Freedom of (Blasphemous) Expression: A Proposal

The Tate Values Excrement More Highly Than Gold

Brooklyn Cheese Artist Installs Bed Of Ham