Flashback: Showtime Showcased Barbara Bush’s Abortion of Son George W
The revelation HBO’s Game of Thrones had a scene with George W. Bush’s severed head on a spike, for which HBO has apologized and maintained was “not a political statement,” reminded me of how five years ago CBS’s Showtime cable network very deliberately portrayed George W. Bush being aborted.
The L Word drama about lesbian friends in Los Angeles, back on Sunday, January 28, 2007, featured the “Unauthorized Abortion of W,” a sculpture of Barbara Bush’s body with an exposed womb displaying George W. Bush’s adult face with each of his hands holding onto a rocket labeled “U.S. Air Force” (angled to suggest they represent forceps) while a vacuum cleaner hose was stuck in Mrs. Bush’s crotch.
As I recounted at the time:
In the January 28 episode, university chancellor “Phyllis,” played by Cybill Shepherd, warns “Bette Porter,” the dean of the university’s art school played by Jennifer Beals, that big potential donor “Skip Collins,” who is coming for a visit, is quite conservative: “Conservative is a little left of where he is. He and George W. grew up playing G.I. Joes together.”
So, Bette Porter asks “Jodi Lerner,” an “artist-in-residence” played by Marlee Matlin, to hide anything in her sculpture studio which would upset Collins. Instead, she puts the Bush abortion sculpture in the center of the art studio. When Porter pulls her aside to complain, Lerner lectures: “My understanding was that you wanted me to capitulate to some asshole’s reptilian politics to get money out of him and that I will never do.”
Lerner then announces to Collins: “This is called the ‘Unauthorized Abortion of W.’ Some of the most powerful student work I’ve seen.” Collins, seeing the sculpture with a vacuum cleaner at its base, fires back: “It’s an abomination and an abuse of university funds.” Porter pleads with him: “Look Skip, don’t you think, really, that the primary purpose of a university is to provide a safe haven to explore ideas and expand boundaries?” Collins: “Not on my dollar.”
After Collins storms out, Lerner urges Porter to “give him the speech about how the impressionists were met with the same response when they debuted their work in Paris in 1874.”
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In the January 28 episode, university chancellor “Phyllis,” played by Cybill Shepherd, warns “Bette Porter,” the dean of the university’s art school played by Jennifer Beals, that big potential donor “Skip Collins,” who is coming for a visit, is quite conservative: “Conservative is a little left of where he is. He and George W. grew up playing G.I. Joes together.”
Lerner then announces to Collins: “This is called the ‘Unauthorized Abortion of W.’ Some of the most powerful student work I’ve seen.” Collins, seeing the sculpture with a vacuum cleaner at its base, fires back: “It’s an abomination and an abuse of university funds.” Porter pleads with him: “Look Skip, don’t you think, really, that the primary purpose of a university is to provide a safe haven to explore ideas and expand boundaries?” Collins: “Not on my dollar.”









Comments
LOL If Obama's face was on the tummy!!
Submitted by stunned on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 3:35pm.
It would be called violent racist hate speech and never tolerated at a University Campus but hey its just a Republican so no big deal.
tired of liberal lies
It's
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 4:35pm.
come to my attention that the producers of movies and actors are beyond help. Don't know how worse it can get and hopefully some day soon, hollywood will be history.
Speaking of flashbacks
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 5:03pm.
Speaking of flashbacks, I just had one of my own. Back in the 70's when the abortion debate was in full swing, and the Supreme Court just issued it's "historic" ruling, one of the girls I knew at the time was all excited about it. She was glad that no one could "force" her to stay pregnant anymore. That's when I turned to her and said: "That's great! How would you like to buy my new product? I call it Doctor Mengele's Home Abortion Kit. It's a metal coat hanger and a surgical sponge." Needless to say, she was not amused. Everyone else thought it was funny.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
I remember that ep!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 7:53pm.
Because I used to watch that show, but NOT for its political statements! However, by this time, it stopped being about a bunch of fun loving lesbos and became a yuppified, liberal, crapfest! And NO ONE complained abou this ep! After this, I onty fast forwarded to the good parts from then on, of which there werent too many anymore!
Libs new level of disgusting.
Submitted by CT on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 11:05am.
I will never forgive the Hollywood 'talent' involved in this crap.
At the same time...
Submitted by Restless Legs on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 12:27pm.
At least they were acknowledging that abortion does indeed kill a human being. Now, if they could only see that it's wrong...