Authors booted from MySpace for posting favorable about Obama

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Local authors booted from MySpace
Maybe it was the dirty-looking angels perpetrating various offenses against defenseless humans, including pissing on them. Or maybe it was the frightening red elephants, meant to represent a political party that had sold its soul. Then again, it could have been the "crosstikas," blasphemy depicted in six simple pen strokes.

Most likely it was all of the above plus the accompanying text, which further confronted the innumerable distortions and hypocrisies of the conservative movement.

Whatever the case, MySpace last week abruptly booted the page for Please God Save Us, the new book by Cleveland artist Derek Hess and writer Kent Smith. The book is based on a 2006 Hess exhibit called Please God Save Us From Your

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Smith adds, "Every time we posted something favorable about Barack Obama, we got 'spam' complaints levied against us."

Another possibility - the skewering of Fox News. In the book, Smith explains how Fox News grew out of the GOP attack machine, and a Hess illustration - titled "Good Dog … or Jihad on the American Aljazeera" - shows the artist's pooch Jose throttling a red fox that has the FOX logo on its belly. (The caption notes drily, "Dogs can sense evil.")


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