Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Portrait of a White House

Paglia, back from carnival in Brazil, is especially colorful:
Right now, the White House is starting to look like Raphael's scathing portrait of a pampered, passive Pope Leo X and his materialistic cardinals -- one of the first examples of an artist sending a secret, sardonic message to posterity. Do those shifty, beady-eyed guys needing a shave remind you of anyone? Yes, it's bare-knuckles Chicago pugilism, transplanted to Washington.
It's no masquerade.

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