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A Clear Double Standard
By Dan | June 4, 2008
This morning, a Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the plate glass windows at street level.
By 9:30 a.m., New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents had shut down the exhibition, and building workers had quickly covered over the inflammatory title with large sheets of brown paper and blue masking tape. The gallery is across the street from the southern entrance to The New York Times building.
I understand why the secret service stepped in to stop this display. What I don’t understand is why they allowed the creation and showing of a movie about the assassination of President Bush in 2006.
I understand trying to be provocative but there is a time when responsibility enters into the equation. This may be exactly what this gentleman wanted, he got a bunch of free publicity for his performance art.
*UPDATE* Michelle Malkin has much more.
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