"Man Questioned About President* Bush Yard Artwork"

[GreenPartyVoter]

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - Secret Service agents have questioned an Alameda man about a display in his front yard featuring a cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head.

Michael McDonald said he was grilled for about 90 minutes by two agents who asked about his personal history and his political views. They also asked him to allow access to his medical records, he said.

The cutout also shows painted blood running over the president's eyes and down the bridge of his nose.

McDonald said the federal agents asked if he interpreted his work as a threat against the country's chief executive. He said he didn't.

"They said, 'You've got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,'" McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. "I said, 'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.'"

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070302/D8NJO84O0.html

Editing to add: you know what else bugs me about this article? It was filed under "News of the Odd" where you might hear about a man wedding a hippo rather than under political "real" news.

[verse18]

1. Best. Comeback. Ever.

"They said, 'You've got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,'" McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. "I said, 'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.'"

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah, that was a good one. LOL I bet the agents didn't like that, though.

[MADem]

2. Nevertheless, he was censored, but he got creative with the censorship

The Bush piece remains in place. He painted over the president's likeness in yellow and penciled in a swastika on the chest. The knife still pierces the forehead, running through a recently added sign that says, "Anonymous."

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. What about penny broadsheets back in the early days of this country. Weren't t there

images of politicians beign tarred and feathered and run out of town? How was that handled by tptb?

[MADem]

11. No secret service back then. The President walked amongst the people.

He rode his own horse, drove his own carriage.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Times sure have changed

[Ian David]

3. Considering how * handles bicycles and pretzels, it would probably be self-inflicted anyway. n/t

[Ian David]

5. Did Jim Henson want to kill Steve Martin?

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. I can't think of Steve without that arrow in his head.

[wicket]

6. "They also asked him to allow access to his medical records,"

:wtf:

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Well, it's the Gestapo. What do you expect?

[wicket]

16. You got that right!

n/t

[Gato Moteado]

8. did the secret service visit jesse helms.....

...when that fat, old, racist douchebag threatened to have the military in NC shoot clinton if he paid a visit to the state?

republicans = human garbage

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I dunno. I bet not

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I would have been tempted to say, 'No, I got a knife in the head of someone who just

plays the president of the USA on TV."

[undeterred]

12. Sounds perfectly normal to me.

:shrug: