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Glenn Beck is Outraged that eBay Pulled His Masterwork, "Obama in Pee Pee" [Updated]
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 28, 2012 03:43pm |
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| Author | Anna Merlan |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 07:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | We generally don't actively want to write about Glenn Beck, for more or less the same reasons we don't go around touching other people's cold sores. But sometimes, up there in his Southlake media fortress, the man does things that put us in the sad position of feeling obliged to listen to and occasionally transcribe portions of his radio show.
But putting an Obama figurine in a jar of fake urine, as Beck did yesterday, didn't quite rise to the level of news. Beck said the stunt was to make some sort of point about the First Amendment, and that all the proceeds from the eBay auction of his masterpiece, titled "Obama in Pee Pee," would go towards a fund he created called Hope For the Holidays. (Apparently the "urine" was actually beer.)
Things got slightly more interesting an hour or so ago, when eBay pulled "Obama in Pee Pee" from their site. You'll never guess how Beck responded.
Why, with mock outrage and a vivid sense of being persecuted, of course. On his radio show, Beck explained that he created "Obama in Pee Pee" to respond to a painting by a guy named Michael D'Antuono which depicts Obama hung on a cross with a crown of thorns around his head. The painting, entitled "Truth," is showing at the prestigious-sounding Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery; both Fox News and Beck's own outfit The Blaze somehow caught wind of it and have been hyperventilating about it all week. |
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