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Jul. 13, 2011 4:05pm Madeleine Morgenstern

A new exhibit at a Michigan city art gallery features a provocative piece that depicts four Republican governors beneath the Nazi party symbol. Despite complaints, the work will remain on display.

Titled “The Faces of American Fascism,” the poster has pictures of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Wis. Gov. Scott Walker, Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder and Fla. Gov. Rick Scott under the national insignia of Nazi Germany. The symbol of the Republican Party is encircled in the wreath under the eagle instead of a swastika.

Art? Taxpayer Funded Exhibit Equates Republican Govs. With Nazism

"The Faces of American Fascism" by Sean Michael Stimac is currently on display at the Marquette Arts and Cultural Center.

Written in the middle of the poster are the words, “Anti union,” “anti worker,” “anti woman,” “anti elderly” and “anti poor.” At the bottom, it charges viewers to “Rise up! Demand a recall” next to an image of a closed fist.

The piece is part of the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center’s “What’s in a Name?” July exhibit. Housed in the lower level of the city public library, the exhibition is slated to run through July 29.

The center provides gallery space for six to 12 exhibits per year, with artists sometimes waiting more than a year to show their work. Nikke Nason, the arts administration director, said the center is financed through the city’s general fund.

According to the center’s website, “Exhibitions are curated with consideration for quality of the exhibit, what will be of interest to the community locally, regionally or nationally and suitability of subject matter…. All displays that the art gallery exhibits are suitable for all ages and will not promote discrimination against any person or group.”

Nason said the exhibit’s two artists, Joe Sobel and Sean Michael Stimac, are both local and have shown their work in the area before. According to a city press release, Stimac, the poster’s creator, “visually communicates his message, which is often political in nature.”

Marquette Assistant City Manager Karl Zueger, who oversees the center, acknowledged the piece was “questionable” but said it did not violate the city’s standards for being obscene, sexually explicit, having elements of racism or inciting violence.

“We didn’t see that it met any one of those tenets,” Zueger said in an interview with The Blaze.

Zueger said he consulted the chair of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and sought a legal opinion before making the final call on whether to display it.

“This is a First Amendment right, freedom of expression. From those we’ve consulted from an artistic standpoint they deem it an artistic expression,” he said.

The exhibit contains a disclaimer saying the art does not represent the beliefs of the city of Marquette and is solely the expression of the artist, Zueger said.

“Art’s not without controversy,” he added.

Zueger said he’s received “a few” complaints from the Marquette County Republican Party.

“It’s their belief that it is offensive, they’ve requested we take the piece down,” Zueger said.

“Everyone’s entitled to their opinion. When you have an art gallery there are times that the artist may illustrate a perspective, whether it be political or social and there’s always that possibility of it being offensive,” Zueger said. “We intend to keep it up until the exhibit closes.”

But Marquette County Republican Party Chair Dan Adamini said his organization is not calling for the piece’s removal, but instead wants to ensure a “mistake like this could never happen again.”

“I’m calling into question the judgment of the people [who approved the work],” Adamini said. “This is clearly not art, this is hate speech and a call to political action.”

Adamini said he’s not doing this as a Republican, and that any such work would offend “any clear-thinking person.”

“Freedom of speech says the government won’t punish you for anything you say,” he said. “It doesn’t guarantee a government-sponsored audience.”

Nason estimated she too has received “six or seven” complaints from patrons who were offended by the work. She said they did not tie themselves to the Republican Party.

(h/t Blaze reader Clint)

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Islesfordian
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:29pm
It is irrelevant how obscene or hateful or even accurate it is. It is intentionally political and partisan. It is politicking pure and simple, and public money should not be used for political propaganda.

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- Non-regulator
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:48pm
  If ugly is art, good job, but otherwise, what a waste.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:02pm
  Agree, the poster is anything but art and should have been rejected on those grounds alone. Having said that a reference to Nazism is off base and used merely to inflate the emotional response. The term Fascism is correctly used in the poster. A extension to Nazism is contestable extension of the image or message.
  
  While fascism was based on certain political ideology, Nazism was blindly based on racial hatred.
  
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- LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:06pm
  I usually have an open mind about art .. if i like it great..if i don’t i don’t look at it
  but i can’t even look at this Poster as art.. it looks like someone used Photo Shop to make a ( bad taste ) Political poster
  
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- Islesfordian
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:08pm
  I do not know how you can say the term Fascism was “correctly used” when fascism refers to a strong role of the state in every facet of society, far more applicable to socialist tendencies of the left. Mussolini was a socialist in his early days.
  
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- naed5048
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:14pm
  are the democraks so high, that they are promoting communism with that fist symbol?
  
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- the hawk
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:15pm
  This is on the Same level as Saying Slavery Was The African’s Fault ! they African tribes invaded other tribes taking prisonars and SELLING,TRADING Them to the white man !
  
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- chazman
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:48pm
  Anti Union to be sure, but that’s only because Communist’s are in charge of the unions, namely Trumpka!! And the majority of American’s feel that unions have no place in the public sector! WWWAAAHHH!!
  I’ve talked to union members and they have no idea of Trumpka’s affiliations with commies or SOROS! Union member’s seem to believe everything they hear and very little of what they
  see … morons!
  
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- JRook
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:52pm
  @Islesfordian Purely on the definition of the term. It can be associated with any number of political ideologies so there isn’t necessarily a tie to any one. The four governors in the poster could be associated with a an unyielding, strong commitment to a political ideology. The term Nazism is clearly incorrectly used, but I understand the constant need to be edgy and provoking here. Fires up the zealots.
  
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- Czar Casm
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:55pm
  Please explain the correct use of fascism on the poster. How can a party (some, not all) that calls for limits on power be accused of wanting to promote fascism?
  
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- txmike
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:03pm
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanstimac/
  
  wouldnt let me post a comment but that happens a lot with this pc
  
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- Islesfordian
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:06pm
  “Purely on the definition of the term. It can be associated with any number of political ideologies so there isn’t necessarily a tie to any one.”
  
  I think you are wrong here. But if we grant that this is correct, that makes fascism a term with no meaning whatsoever, so there can be no question of it being used correctly as there is no incorrect usage.
  
  A practical definition of fascism would be: nationalism, authoritarianism and a one party state that suppresses dissent.
  
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- JH_Smokey
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:07pm
  Next thing ya know, they’ll be taking away our light bulbs
  
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- encinom
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:11pm
  Agree, the poster is anything but art and should have been rejected on those grounds alone. Having said that a reference to Nazism is off base and used merely to inflate the emotional response. The term Fascism is correctly used in the poster. A extension to Nazism is contestable extension of the image or message.
  
  While fascism was based on certain political ideology, Nazism was blindly based on racial hatred.
  ____________________________
  Are you willing ot say the same thing about Glenn Beck’s daily use of Nazi terms in the same manner as here? Of course the actions of Herr Governors in this case more closely resemble Nazi policies.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:44pm
  @ The Hawk, slavery and its predominance in the world is partly due to the African people who rounded up and sold their own extended family. Also, the practice of slavery was not uncommon in Africa and often, when they went to war with other tribes, they would sell off the men as slaves to the traders and keep the women as their own slaves because they were easier to control and because of that control they were able to be worked harder, and other stuff.
  
  Apparently I don’t get your simile because I do feel that some of the burden for slavery lies with the people who sold the slaves. Also, I remember quite vividly that in ancient Rome and Greece, there were white slaves, also, I’m pretty sure the Moors took slaves in Spain.
  
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- cripplecreek
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:57pm
  I’m most curious about taxpayer dollars funding obvious political propaganda.
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 7:25pm
  number one, any TAXPAYER funded art should have to remain politically neutral. number two, if the artist wanted to symbolize naziism, then a picture of pelosi, reid, obama, and biden should have been there. After all, they are pushing naziism now.
  
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- jzs
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 9:26pm
  I object to any use of Nazi imagery because it’s ridiculous hyperbole in any context in today’s world and diminishes the horror of Hilter’s regime. I object to it when Glenn Beck uses it, I object to it in signs at Tea Party rallies, I object to it when the people on this website use it and I object to it in this instance.
  
  But this is one thing you guys have exactly backwards. Saying this is “tax payer supported” is ridiculous. Yes, it’s at a tax payer supported art gallery, but it does cost taxpayers a cent to painting or poster in there. Assumming they charge admission, having controversial material in their probably raises revenues. And, to remind you, the Constitution prevents the government from censoring speach. First Amendment.
  
  But here’s my real point. When a public art gallery can only show “government approved” art or art approved by any single group, that’s when you should be afraid. That’s when opinions are being suppressed. That when a country become like, some, you know, other past countries.
  
  Besides is it not true that the Republican party is against unions? That’s false?
  
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- kraphtsman
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 9:38pm
  A more appropriate venue for this “work of art” would be on a small cardboard tube in one of the library’s toilet stalls.
  
  But in reality, only a bunch of frustrated liberal droids would call this hateful crap “art”. It’s actually quite entertaining to know how bad these liberal idiots feel about all the LOGICAL and FAIR laws being passed by Republican-controlled states… if only this were happening in ALL 50 of them !!!!!
  
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- JRook
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:41pm
  @Islesfordian If you look it is not a well defined term, but I think some of the relatively extreme positions of these governors, particularly the ones that are driven more by ideology than governmental necessity would approach a form of fascism. For example the unions in MN agreed in negotiations to the necessary salary cuts to meet the governors budget, but he was driven to take away their collective bargaining rights. What was his intent, what was he driven by…. not fiscal necessity.
  
  @encinom The actions of these governors does not appear rooted in the belief in, or promotion of a superior race so don’t see any relationship to Nazism. As far as GB is concerned I find him completely irrelevant and really don’t anything he says worthy of comment.
  
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- Islesfordian
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:25am
  Jrook,
  Fascism is only a poorly defined term by those who want to make it so. Fascism under Mussolini, Franco and Hitler had clearly identifiable features. Fascism advocates a strong central government that claims authority over every aspect of society. Fascist governments do not try to run everything the way communists do, but they do direct the private running of business to serve the publc ends. This sounds much more like Democrats than Republicans. Think of how much authority progressive government claims. It can tell us what lightbulbs we can use. It tells companies where they can build new plants. It interferes in the running of Catholic Charities if they don’t behave the way the state wants. And if you don’t think democrats are guided by ideology in their policies then you simply aren’t being honest and it is pointless engaging in a conversation.
  
  Your characterization of the fight with unions in Wisconsin is false. Walker did not take away collective bargening rights. He simply put checks upon them so that the people had a say. If you don’t think fiscal necessity had something to do with his fight with the union you simply aren’t paying attention to the argument. You may not agree with the fiscal analysis, but to act as if there wasn’t one only shows an ideological blindness on your part. The problem of public sector union benefits and how they are driving governments into fiscal insolvency has been elaborated at length repeatedly.
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:32am
  It’s not Republicans that want to tell you what to eat,what to drive,where to set your thermastat,what to think,what kind of light bulbs you can use,where you can’t pray, ..ect
  That’s a democratic,i mean liberal ,or is progressive what ever they call themselves ideology
  and it is the very definition of facsism.
  They all way try to label their sin on others the democrats started the KKK,and fought tooth and nail against civil rights down to the last filabuster. So they call Republicans racist
  The last election the democrats got 3 time the donantion from corperate America and wall street as the republicans. So they say Republican are all about supporting corperation and wall street
  The democrats have been taking away America freedom and replacing them with centralized government power..aka facsism. so they say republican are facsist.
  If you every want to know what the democratic party is up to just look at what they are saying about Republican.
  
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- Iman Barak Hussein
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:46am
  that eagle is cool, ain’t it ?
  
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- Lawlcat001
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:49am
  Not even gonna read it; I’m just gonna rage.
  THIS JUNK ALWAYS HAPPENS!
  If it’s not calling Rs Nazis, when the Ds are all about taking guns and unions,
  then it’s calling Rs racist, when Ds are all about keeping minorities in the welfare system.
  
  This is just plain stupid. It’s like murdering someone and just pointing your finger at another person and saying “HE DID IT!” and when the other person says, “No, sir. It was YOU,” the killer can just say, “Oh, come on. What kind of clever response is that? Oooooh. Look at me! I can say ‘I know you are but what am I?’”
  
  smmfh…….
  
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- Gigi4
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:34am
  I hate to see my tax $$ spent in such an un-American way. It is utterly sickening.
  
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- ConsiderThis
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:05am
  This is just one small example of why “We The People” are determined not to give in to the liberals constant demand for more TAXES!
  
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- sWampy
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 3:36pm
  Actually slavery was mostly black Muslims fault, they captured non believers and sold them to northern Americans who had ships, who brought them to the south so the south could harvest cotton to be woven into cloth in the northern factories.
  
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- dquak
  Posted on July 15, 2011 at 10:51pm
  If art is propaganda, then I suppose this is art. However, the artist is quite ignorant, unless this is satire. The German National Socialist Party (the NAZI party) has more in common with today’s Democrats, and has almost nothing in common with today’s Republicans.
  
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RLM
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:27pm
I guess this goes to show that even the retarded can create art?

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- squirrel
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 3:34pm
  So they use the Clenched Fist (Communist Symbol) and the Nazi Eagle and Wreath (Socialist Symbol) to rail against Republicans who want to balance the budget and shrink the government. Makes since to me, I think, well maybe not, what dumbass thought this up?
  
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jhrusky
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:26pm
I’m not entirely following something here … nearly every city/state in this country is in some sort of financial trouble, yet those bozos are STILL spending public money on ‘art’?

Now, I love art and I know that some is appealing to me while some is not. I understand it’s a good thing to have so everyone can view art. BUT … something tells me that when you’re in any sort of financial trouble, you have to be intelligent enough to put an end to any spending that is not 100% necessary. One would think homeless shelters, food banks, back to work programs, and other such helpful items would be a much better way for all governments to spend their, no OUR, money on instead of wasting it on art of any persuasion.

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- IvanK
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:42pm
  Goes to show you how ignorant liberals are. The original NAZI party were SOCIALISTS! Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei … The German Socialist National Party.
  It is SOCIALISTS that that are NAZI’s! This is an irrefutable TRUTH!
  If you look at the current American Socialist movement, the parallels between the original NAZI party and our current flavor of it are uncanny. We even have Brownshirts… Unions & the TSA. If you remember back during El Duce’s campaign, he mentioned wanting to have a civilian para-military force. Well folks, he got it! It’s called the TSA. The NAZI party attempted to control every aspect of people’s lives – and of course when you look at our current Socialist party, they are doing the same. Take some time and read about the origins and philosophy of the NAZI party and draw your own conclusion… What you may find will probably frighten you… We are repeating history.
  
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- rangerp
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:47pm
  The hilarious part, is the Governors in the pics are Republican. They want to take power out of the hands of the government and put it back in the hands of the people. The opposite of the Hitler Regime, and the opposite of the modern day democrat. If anyone replicates the nazis and their total control of banking, auto industry, health care…. It is Obama, Pelosi, Clinton, Boxer, Reid….
  
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- 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:52pm
  “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” –Adolf Hitler
  
  (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:55pm
  It’s the same old, repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe it. Let’s see, who was it that just threatened old people, disabled people on ssi and the veterans?…..oh I remember now, it was our President. I guess he switched parties and is a republican now.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:46pm
  @IvanK
  
  You left something out. Arbeiterpartei literally translates to “Worker’s Party”.
  
  It’s the Nationalist Socialist WORKERS Party. Yes, Nazism is so clost to Communism that they are practially indistinguishable. Both have Socialism as their core.
  
  Oh yeah, you should also note that Worker’s Party means they were originally a UNION. It’s incorrect to say that Hitler was anti-union. He did outlaw most unions, except for his own. You were required to only join his union.
  
  Look for the union label….and you’ll find a socialist/communist/fascist dupe.
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:04pm
  JHRUSKY FOR PRESIDENT
  
  If we could get every single gov office, every township, city, county, state, and federal office to operate as you describe, the deficit would vanish almost instantly.
  
  The amount of Government waste and fraud is monumental beyond all imagination.
  
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tom
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:24pm
I assume the Marxist artist support the Marxist president who is currently destroying America, along with the poor, as a result of his anti American union thugs! Vote him out in 2012, they will all go back under their rocks!!!

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- Zer0
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:45pm
  NO! We should not allow these parasites to shrink away under their collective “rocks”…..we should pursue them, route them, and drive them into the sea! They will regret every bit of these transgressions done unto our Republic!
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 7:27pm
  Vermin need to be eliminated in the most humane way possible. If you allow a population of vermin to exist, they become vectors of “disease”. Generally, for the public good, that should not be allowed.
  I am checking hemp rope futures,pretty sure….they are……GOING UP!!!!!
  
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NickDeringer
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:20pm
Being on the left means never having to think. The Left’s ideas are so bad they can’t defend them so they resort to lynch mob tactics like this.

If the Left can slaughter a million and a half babies a year, they are capable of anything.

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voodoolife
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:20pm
Vile. Just one more place to easily cut funding.

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- IAMNOTKNOWING
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:20pm
  As in: “We’re goin’ in, Folks!”
  
  This is it! If we don’t surmount this non-sense… it’s time to get real about survivalist implementation.
  
  Our Founders didn’t just encourage us to form local militias.. they told we’re supposed to.
  
  Prepare! Talk to your neighbors and be ready!!
  
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fliteking
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:19pm
Oddly, when you compare apples to apples the progressive are much more nazi-like than conservatives .
http://www.uffl.org/vol%208/hunt8.pdf

Again no worries for the progressive Elite, their followers are blind deaf and dumb, unable to take the initiative to review such clear cut comparisons .

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- Jack2011
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:11pm
  That is because Nazi’s were the “NATIONAL SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party”
  
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- Tankertony
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:33pm
  Yours is the most important point. This must be taught and understood by everyone. The godless-leftist-progressive is so much more similar to fascism than any conservative politician.
  They may have different armbands or different colored flags, but the goal is the same, Control through the State.
  The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen, the less freedom.
  This is what a true conservative fights against every day.
  We seek the perfect balance as articulated by our Founders. Holding of debt was very clearly discouraged almost too extremes. We know who the spenders are and we’re coming after you. Nov 2010 was just the beginning. Sarah will make fiscal responsibility very clear to you Ivy League types, so that even you can understand it. It may take all of her eight year term to win you over, but you’ll learn.
  
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libloather7
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:19pm
democRATs, liberals or progressives, regardless of how they label themselves, the people who live on the left side of the political spectrum are just plain hateful and nasty. Most of the hate speech and truly over the line rhetoric I have ever hear comes from the democRAT party and the academics, entertainment types, media people and union drones that support them.

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islandlady
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:17pm
In the last days even the elite will be decieved. Someone needs to point out to the elderly and the disabled that the administration is holding them in fear and as hostages to eliminate any cap on government spending. Please find an organization in your state to protest this developement on thursday. We need citizens and all forms of media to speak out in the trueth so the trueth cannot be barried like the left is trying to do. I am an American and by Golly They have no right to do what they are doing!!!!! Next it will be enslaving the poor. How could we be anti worker when they cannot create jobs, but are eliminating jobs everywhere but in the government.
I think we could mimick them, but I believe as a people we are intellegent enough to recognize
Bolony when it is served to us.

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LadyIzShy
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:17pm
umm since IKNOW Snyder is a target for a recall and THIS says to recall him its NOT art its politcal and should NOT be funded by ANY government program..

Then we get to the weird symbolism that the progressives seem to think makes thier point about the GOP but if they knew history at all they would know that the nazi party was and is a progressive party NOT a conservative one. I think this message they are using will be ignored by all but the extreme left who would have followed any way. the blind sheep that swallow the lines the are fed without really thinking about things for themselves.

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- CatB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:22pm
  @LADY … I agree clearly they are taking a “position” on a political issue… they should be defunded.
  
  TEA!
  
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smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:16pm
Maybe someone should post this
http://wa8.wikispaces.com/file/view/kkk.jpg/178693421/kkk.jpg
with the subtitled founded by the DNC 1865

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- fliteking
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:21pm
  Good call!
  
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fliteking
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:15pm
This is clearly prejudicial and racist on a simple level.

No worries for Obama though, it is to in depth for the average progressive.

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RightUnite
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:15pm
Looks like someone needs to be DE-FUNDED…….

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a_lady_patriot
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:15pm
I am all for freedom of speech – but not at the expense of the taxpayers. Have it displayed in a private gallery. I question if it was anti-socialist or anti-Democrat whether it would be displayed?

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- JBT
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:27pm
  Where is the bipartisan effort for equality?
  He should be demanded to do his art (choking) for all parties.
  
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- Zer0
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:42pm
  This is NOT an example of freedom of speech. This is tax-payer funded propaganda from the same vein as Goebbels!
  
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TINFOIL HATS
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:14pm
Typical

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- rose-ellen
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:57pm
  Cool.Somebody is waking up.The nazism of the 21st century is indeed right wing american republicans.[rabid hypercapitalists,rabid antisemitism[against arabs],rabid mass murdering and torturing war mongers and genicidists,obsession with the country not belonging to us anymore[those evil others are ruining us],clamour for something to be done once and for all,glorification of war and soldiers, patriotism being the highest[and only] value.us against them where we are better and different and superior to all peoples and cultures on earth, preoccupation with every facet of our history[like its a religion]american exceptionalism as a given and all oponents labeled evil unamerican. and being unamerican considered the worst thing a human can be. fear to be labeled unamerican[as if there are no other people or beliefs on earth that are valid].Fear of going against the judicial system[can't criticize a jury or you're unamerican]Our system must always be said to work and be superior to any others etc. fear, dishonesty, platitudes run amok, nationalism and militarism glorified.Imperialism and invasions and occupations of countries,, hatred and dehumanization of a people, the concept terrorrist used to deny any human consideration to any one who opposes our policies,concentration camps and torture chambers.,protections of citizens rights and freedoms curtailed,,totalizing good versus evil mindset, self serving lies galore by government and media etc.truely the artist sees what’s going
  
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- UlyssesP
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:24pm
  @rose-ellen
  Typical.
  
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- POdVet
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:33pm
  Rose Ellen, let me just say that. The artist, like you is obviously sitting on his own shoulders.
  
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- In The Right
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:41pm
  Can I get an NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) grant if I paint a portrait of the Cowardly Communist in Chief Barack HUSSEIN Obama (aka Barry Soetoro/Barry Marshall-Davis) buy using feces to accurately display his skin color just like the Liberal “artist” did at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC) with the Virgin Mary ?
  
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- GABOB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:44pm
  @rose ellen
  
  You are too dumb to realize that the Nasi Party was the NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY of GERMANY. Just like the socialist party you are in now. No tolerance of anything and besides, both the nazi party and your party hate jews! Sound familiar. Probably not since you did not study history.
  
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adouglass1
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:14pm
The second American Revolution is coming and its not North vs South this time its the sheep vs the non sheep!!

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- Viking64
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:38pm
  Short explanation, but I like it , it is more like the rational will go against the unrational!
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 9:42pm
  Nazism is as nazism does[and believes] And like the nazis of yore todays americans believe that might makes right [the spoils of war of iraq as many american politicians proclaim and the people concur-like the good germans that they are]The now pervaisive arcane belief that if you “win” a war you get to aquire more territory[zionists are entitled to territory they"won,"like ww2 never happened and UN treaties and conventions never ratified. This is quintesential nazism and is a pervasive belief among the good germans of today[americans] .Also pre-emptive war shock and awe, occupation torture and mass murder of civilians is labeled liberation [this is a blatant lie expressed to assert the real nazi belief in might makes right imperialist greedy nationalism which is nowthe thuggish dishonable american nazi stand].Unlike the nazis of yore however ,today here it is not coming from a regime imposed on the people but from the ground up-the people via media propaganda and some right wing politicians have turned the populace into nazis and the government at the highest levels is attempting to curtail it.Though it is pervasive in executive levels of government too.As is the mass murder and torture of perhaps millions of muslims[a religion it is now acceptablle to openly express contempt for and a people it is now acceptable to bully, openly dehumanize in your press and by your politicians.Anti-semitism directed at arabs and as virulent and potentialy as deadly from todays
  
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- Commonsense Libertarian
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:25pm
  @Rose-Ellen
  
  That is a wonderful explanation of today’s American Progressive Party. Your points are spot on for the American Progressives, both on the right and the left. The people pictured in the poster however, are not part of the progressive problem.
  
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:14pm
Where’s the outrage? There’s entirely too little outrage!

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- CatB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:21pm
  LLOYD .. I will be in the area this month .. I am outraged and intend to tell them so!
  
  TEA!
  
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Jezcruzen
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:14pm
It is heartbreaking that patriots in that city do not go there and tear that piece of **** off the wall. Yep. Just sit there and do nothing…. (yawn)

There was once a day when posting something like that would have not been tolerated by any American.

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- Vechorik
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:48pm
  Germany wouldn’t allow it either.
  
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- Jezcruzen
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:22pm
  Then why are taxpayers funding this marxist’s “art”? Is there any doubt about the agenda of this POS? Let him/her pay for their “freedom of speech” themselves.
  
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Weiners Wiener
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:14pm
I pay taxes, and I’m not OK with this.

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let us prey
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:12pm
Michigan, enough said.
Little arabia is now hosting exhibits with ties to the Nazi party in art form. I can see the Mufti sitting with Hitler and plotting the destruction of many races of people. [Modern day -obumma sitting with an imam].
This is far from ART!

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:16pm
  You seem confused about Michigan geography: Dearborn is way down south, Marquette is way up north. Sobel and Stimach do not sound like Arab names. Nice try, though.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:23pm
  Yes .. but I will be up north … TEA!
  
  I intend to make my disgust KNOWN!
  
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- Blackhawk1
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:48pm
  Lloyd Drako
  
  No Let Us Prey is correct in his/her assumption about Marquette. The city is in the U.P. of Michigan but is as Liberal as Detroit or Deerborn. I know because I live less than an hour away. Why do you think that was the ONLY city in the U.P. Obama ever visited or is welcome in? Also believe that Snyder will not get recalled.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:08pm
  Yes, liberal.
  
  Democratic anyway: Bart Stupak represented the area.
  
  But no way Arab, as Let Us Prey suggests.
  
  Snyder’s job is secure; Walker, not so sure.
  
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- let us prey
  Posted on July 14, 2011 at 5:10pm
  Draco
  I did say Michigan is little Arabia. Not the city of the faux art show. Read the lines first.
  
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CultureWarriors
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:12pm
Typical liberal – profoundly stupid. Hitler was a liberal socialist! And that’s a fact jack!

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- CS_GUY
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 5:37pm
  I agree, except there is one difference between Hitler and the creator of this “Art”. Hitler wasn’t stupid, just insane. And by the way, nothings been said about the person(s) who approved the money to go to these imbeciles. How about a little anger over giving tax payer money to terrorist?
  
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Gonzo
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:12pm
Nice communist fist at the bottom of the flyer. Funny how commies always want to call people Nazis when Communism has killed far more people than National Socialism ever did.

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:18pm
  Look closely, and note how the closed fist resembles a map of Wisconsin.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:20pm
  right Gonzo..but not even that…
  
  this is 1930′s Germany all over again…the Communists fighting the Socialists….they are trying the same crap 80 years later….
  that is the problem with Progressives – they think there are only two options… Nazi or Commie… if you don’t buy into one of these two philosophies then you are a wacko, uneducated, moron that relies on your guns, religion, and fear of those not like you (racist) to make decisions…. all the enlightened educated people know that only Socialism or Communism is fair and without criminality…
  
  this is just the Commie Progressives trying to fight the Nazi/Facist Progressives…what they don’t understand is that the men listed aren’t EITHER!! they are Patriotic Constitutional Capitalists…
  
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- Patrick in AZ
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:21pm
  Except that there is very little difference between national socialism and communism – they are two sides of the same coin. And they both are evil
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:50pm
  But in the 21st century americanism[21st century naziism] has killed more people.
  
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- Viet Vet
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:02pm
  Rosie O., you’re a friggen nut. Islamic Fascism (Islamofascism) has killed far more people in the 21st century on purpose, than the U.S. has killed accidentally and on purpose. Further, most of the people killed by the Islamic Fascists have been innocents, where most of the one’s killed by the U.S. have been Islamic Fascists.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 8:21pm
  Rose-Ellen
  
  Islamist terrorists are doing most of the killing .. we are defending BIG difference … except with Obama and his wars!
  
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FaithfulFriend
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:12pm
A right, yes. You bet. It’s also crap.

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- booger71
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 7:39pm
  Maybe their right, but it should be our right not to have tax dollars pay for it.
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 9:56pm
  When you your calling card is shock and awe you’re murdering people. you’re fighting the people of iraq and afghanistan ,whatever name you self servingly[like good germans] give them.You are the biggest mass murdering nation on earth.You conssistently kill and civilians of everycountry uou invade and occupy.your self seving lies and triterationalizations[isslafofacistists [and all that jazz does not fool andy one or hide the truth that you're aninvading mass murdering nationkilling the civilians of the countires you invade[mccain dropping bombs on the vietnamese villages,itraq etc].Your lies about your mass murdering policys are quinesential lying nazi assertions.American nazis like those of yore are dishonerable lying mass murdering thugs.
  
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- Viet Vet
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 10:50pm
  Rosie O., Ask the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Just like various nations in europe are erecting statues of Ronald Reagan, Iraq and Afghanistan will be erecting statues of George W. Bush someday. Finally, I’m pretty sure you are in fact an Islamofascist.
  
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smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:12pm
It’s not Republican that are trying to tell people what they can eat,what they can drive ,what kind of light bulbs they can use,how high or low to turn their thermastats,what they can say, and what to think…..
That’s the liberal progressives and it facsism personified.
So my response would be I know you are but what am I.

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- onegodinkansas
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:36pm
  I’m sick of the purposeful omission of the fact that 7 million Christians were killed in the Holocaust, in addition to the 6 million Jews murdered. That gets left out ’cause the propagandists try to paint Hitler as a Christian. There was not a right-wing bone in any Nazi’s body.
  
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- Viet Vet
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 10:53pm
  This is ongoing, a Christian is murdered every 6 minutes somewhere in the world, for no other reason than that he/she is a Christian.
  
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cortezhistory
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:09pm
first!

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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:13pm
  And you wasted your response by not posting anything,. You’re the moron that goes to the moon and takes no pictures.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:14pm
  I congratulate you on your swiftness yet, your comment lacks substance. Therefore, you lose all the points for being first. Thanks for playing.
  
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- cortezhistory
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:16pm
  I mean… sixth!
  
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- RightUnite
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:16pm
  How old are you??
  
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- Patrick in AZ
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:17pm
  wrong
  
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- CatB
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:19pm
  WHO CARES! Write something you twit!
  
  I am leaving for Michigan soon .. now I have something to add on my vacation stops I am going to go and tell them EXACTLY what I think of their so called art! Scott is my governor! Government sponsored hate speech. I believe in free speech .. but not government sponsored hate speech ….
  
  TEA!
  
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- Marengo Ohio Patriot
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:22pm
  So where is Obummer and his buddies Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao Zedong? Along with “art” of those countries while under these “gentlemens” rule… Show what this country will soon look like with this idiot in the Whitehouse!
  
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- Marengo Ohio Patriot
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:29pm
  Gov Kasich ROCKS!!! So do the other three! Unions are for people who are to stupid to fend/make decisions on their own behalf and do not have enough sense to stop having their paycheck looted each week for the fat cat union bosses!!!!
  
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- grandmaof5
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:48pm
  That is not art, that is a political statement, pure and simple. How about pictures of the artist’s family nailed to crosses. That’s art. Or hanging for treason. That’s art. How about using some common sense and not stir up trouble when making decisions that affect people other than yourself and your socialist/Marxist/communist buddies.
  
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- vennoye
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:49pm
  CatB
  Good for you!!! Have a great trip!
  
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- ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 6:12pm
  Grandmaof5: “How about pictures of the artist’s family nailed to crosses. That’s art. Or hanging for treason. That’s art.”
  
  My, Grandma. What a big ball of hate you have.
  
  I can’t imagine you actually being around children, much less being someone’s grandmother. You are a hateful person. I pray for you.
  
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- grandmaof5
  Posted on July 13, 2011 at 7:29pm
  ZOMBIE, you have got to be kidding! I am equating the absurdness and grotesqueness of that picture as art, I am not endorsing it. I merely wondered how the artist would feel about his family being depicted in such a fashion – the cross reference is for the left’s lack of Godliness and the hanging is for the KKK and the left’s intolerance to minorities, no matter what they say. Please go locate a troll to criticize – there are plenty of them lurking.
  
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