theatlantic: The Tea Party Is Not Happy With Chicago’s Sarah Palin Sculpture You’d think that folks who love both red meat and Sarah Palin would rally behind a sculpture devoted to both. But for some reason, the Tea Party is not happy with this BBQ smoker in the shape of the conservative firebrand’s freedom-filled noggin. News organizations have been rooting and snuffling around the immense Palin head, titled “We’re Having a Tea Parody” (not “Pear-ody,” as reported elsewhere), ever since mixed-media artist J. Taylor Wallace debuted it in 2011 at a Memphis public-art show. The anthropomorphic cooker hit the news again last week, when Wallace fashioned a meal with it to celebrate the opening of a new sculpture garden in Chicago. Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: J. Taylor Wallace]
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The Tea Party Is Not Happy With Chicago’s Sarah Palin Sculpture

You’d think that folks who love both red meat and Sarah Palin would rally behind a sculpture devoted to both. But for some reason, the Tea Party is not happy with this BBQ smoker in the shape of the conservative firebrand’s freedom-filled noggin.

News organizations have been rooting and snuffling around the immense Palin head, titled “We’re Having a Tea Parody” (not “Pear-ody,” as reported elsewhere), ever since mixed-media artist J. Taylor Wallace debuted it in 2011 at a Memphis public-art show. The anthropomorphic cooker hit the news again last week, when Wallace fashioned a meal with it to celebrate the opening of a new sculpture garden in Chicago.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: J. Taylor Wallace]

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    … hilarious that you already know who that’s supposed to represent without an explanation: bangs, glasses, huge mouth?...
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    Those natives look restless.
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    I want one in my backyard.
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    Nightmare fuel! Oh my god Atlantic, what are you doing posting this horror?!
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    I thought it looked more like Dwight Schrute
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