One sign that a news outlet is liberal is how they can find nothing controversial in peace protests by long-time avant-garde hippies like Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon. The Washington Post greeted her latest publicity stunt in DC with an honorific article on the front page of the Style section headlined "Yoko Ono's Peaceful Message Takes Root." Jessica Dawson didn't mention how this alleged peacemaker caused the War Among the Beatles that broke up the band. Dawson could only produce awe for her celebrity and for her care for all humanity: "Yes, that was Yoko Ono whispering into the bark of a cherry tree at the Tidal Basin yesterday morning. The artist, performer and widow of John Lennon visited Washington on Sunday and Monday to bring her 'Imagine Peace' project to the city."
Ono encouraged public participation in art by having people write their wishes on a piece of paper and tie it to one of her peace trees. How scribbling a wish on paper is "art" is anyone's guess. Is it art if you bring your calligraphy pen? The Post account continued this press release for peace:
Ono promised to collect all the Washington wishes and add them to her cache -- she claims to have more than 100,000 collected from trees throughout the world. The papers will be incorporated into the artist's Imagine Peace Tower, which will be installed later this year in Iceland. Ono was vague about the structure's exact design and said it would be made of light.
Both the Peace Tower and the tree project are part of the artist's long-standing efforts to encourage public participation in artmaking and to promote worldwide peace and understanding.
Apparently, it would be rude in the middle of this flower-tossing tribute to note that Ono's "long-standing" efforts for "worldwide peace" included support for installing the communist regime in Vietnam that still oppresses the people in that country.
The AP version of the story by Ann Sanner is a bit milder in tone and headline, more about "art" than "peace" protest.
Artist Yoko Ono hung a wish for love and peace in the world from a tree she dedicated Monday at the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden. Ono's wish read, "Let's cover the planet with our love and make it a peaceful world for all of us and our offsprings."
That would be the federally funded Hirshhorn Museum, so once again, the conservative taxpayer is offering their involuntary support for fuzzy-headed liberal art projects in the nation's capital.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Did she, in fact, touch one o
April 3, 2007 - 07:59 ET by NoMoreClintonsDid she, in fact, touch one of the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin? That's actually illegal, you know, to touch one of the cherry trees. No joke, I saw it on CNN so it must be true! (If so, then just lock her up, preferably in a psych ward)
Wow… I missed it, I could h
April 3, 2007 - 08:22 ET by USA4freedomWow… I missed it, I could have wiped out all wars with just that little paper on a tree. I just bet if the Japanese would have never bombed Pearl Harbor if only… we had papered the trees they gave us… What an idiot.. and the news people that follow her are bigger idiots…
America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yeah she's kooky.
April 3, 2007 - 08:58 ET by SportPoliticsYeah she's kooky. I believe it said she "whispered into the bark of a cherry tree".
" I won't chop you down like that slavemaster *astard warmonger George W. did, or blow you up and burn to you to cinders and murder you like our new dictator warmonger George W. is trying to do. "
Is that what she whispered into the bark ? What can you do but laugh at these wackos ? Did she actually walk up to the tree and take her moment whispering into the tree trunk ? I guess hugging was too much, that might actually get laughed at nationwide by sane people,so she walked up to it and whispered at it ?
Last time I heard about this kookball, she stripped naked somewhere and started prancing around, and she's like 63 years old or something.
The song "Imagine"
April 3, 2007 - 08:21 ET by ahusserThe song "Imagine" by John Lennon, if you listen to the lyrics, is the Communist Manifesto set to music. Do you expect anything different from their ilk.
Lets face it. If she had not
April 3, 2007 - 08:27 ET by USA4freedomLets face it. If she had not married a Beetle no one would know her name. They would think it’s a new car from Korea.
America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
In all seriousness, I hope yo
April 4, 2007 - 22:29 ET by ferrarimanf355In all seriousness, I hope you're joking. I really do.
Uzumaki/Ayanami '08. Because a ninja and an Eva pilot can govern the nation better that what we have now...
Speaking of Yoko Ono, what do
April 3, 2007 - 08:30 ET by BeanManSpeaking of Yoko Ono, what does she have in common with an Ethiopian?
They both live off of dead beetles.
I've always wanted to go to N
April 3, 2007 - 08:43 ET by AlgerHissI've always wanted to go to NYC and urinate on that insidious "Imagine" memorial thingy they put in some park there. That would be worth getting arrested for.
This overrated, skinny, drug addicted Marxist makes anyone with half a brain puke.
Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!
Tim,I usually agree with your
April 3, 2007 - 15:42 ET by Tony STim,
I usually agree with your posts but you are wrong about Ono breaking up the Beatles. I'd urge you to read the many histories -- Mark Lewisohn's Recordings Sessions book for one. The Beatles breakup took root when their manager died, and Paul McCartney took control of the band, not allowing other members to grieve and goading them into recording the badly-received "Magical Mystery Tour" film. It was after this that a disgusted Lennon started bringing Ono into the studio to fight against Paul's dominance. Ono did not necessarily want to be there - Lennon set it up because he felt he needed an ally and that he was playing "bit parts" in pre-packaged McCartney productions.
Equally as important, both Ringo star and George Harrison QUIT the Beatles specifically because of McCartney's criticism and exacting demands on them (both left for several days and had to be persuaded to come back by Paul). This is documented in "Sessions" and other books. Neither quit over Yoko; both stormed after beratings by McCartney. Years later, the band Wings became a revolving door of musicians because of much the same thing.
FINALLY, when McCartney and the others started rejecting Lennon's material -- specifically the song "Cold Turkey" --- Lennon had enoguh and quit. 1969. The others persuaded him not to tell the media, so few people know he was the first to officially leave. But this is the way it went down, and it's documented in many many places. Ono was an annoyance, but it was Paul that drove everyone away.
And I am not a Yoko defender; just an avid reader of Beatle books. Session logs don't lie!
Joke-O'- Alone-O' ? I think
April 3, 2007 - 19:12 ET by BlazerJoke-O'- Alone-O' ? I think I heard one time that she was really Hanoi Hannah, and that in her spare time she likes to paint murals on the wall of her penthouse in her own feces. Well at any rate she must be about a hundred years old by now, I thought she was dead. ,
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
Federally funded?Where in the
April 3, 2007 - 19:34 ET by bigtimerFederally funded?
Where in the hell is the outrage?
Oh...wait I know...same place the outrage is for PBS, the ACLU, tons of others that have complete communistic outlooks for their own goal to reach and make this country one...as long as it is communistic.
I am not even going to bother with the word leftist anymore...not tonight.