The Gingriches Were Very Alarmed About A 45-Foot-Tall Naked Sculpture

[riversedge]

Source: Huff post


POLITICS 04/18/2018 04:41 pm ET

The former House Speaker went straight to Ryan Zinke upon learning of an effort to display the statue on the National Mall.

By Chris D’Angelo


WASHINGTON — Three weeks before the National Park Service denied an activist group’s request to erect a giant statue of a nude woman on the National Mall, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke received an email from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).

The Oct. 3 message forwarded an exchange between Gingrich, his wife, Callista, and Claire Christensen, the co-author of his 2016 book about the election of President Donald Trump. In it, the three seemed perturbed by the proposal to place the sculpture near the Washington Monument for three months.

“Have you heard about this?” Callista Gingrich, now the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, wrote to her husband. Newt Gingrich asked Christensen in an email later that day whether it was real.

“Unfortunately, yes it’s true,” Christensen responded. “Still needing approval and funding so nothing definitive yet.” She provided links to several news articles on the proposal.


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Looks like Newt put an end to this particular art display.


"Gingrich pinged Zinke a few hours later, passing along the email chain without comment. The subject: “Are you aware of this newt.”




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Screenshot/Catharsis on the Mall

Link to tweet

[Ligyron]

1. Say, I like that statue.

Maybe if it were a bit bigger?

[George II]

2. Remember when John Ashcroft spent tens of thousands of dollars for drapes to cover up.....

....quasi-nude statue in the the Justice Department that has been there since 1933?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1383108/Curtains-for-nude-statue-of-justice.html

[riversedge]

6. I was thinking of that incident as I poted this story and could not think of the name of the AG.

thanks for swiping away the cobwebs.

[Aristus]

3. A serial adulterer is worried about public nudity.

Oh my sainted hat! Give me some pearls to clutch!...

[rurallib]

15. Yep morality leader Newt the horn dog.

[Leith]

20. Here's a Couch to Faint on...

Newtie's well known for all sorts of propriety violations behind closed doors and hurling accusations at others.

Does his turd wife say the same about the statues in the Vatican?

[Canoe52]

4. Boobies in public? Oh no, It will be the downfall of our civilization!

[wasupaloopa]

5. We sent a drawing that resembles that statue into outer space some time ago. Maybe newt wants to

go get it back.

[pandr32]

7. It is a powerful representation of women rising up against systemic oppression

The female body is nothing to be ashamed of or fear and after two years of the Women's March and all the women running for office, the National Mall is a perfect place to display this statement through art.
The Gingriches should be ashamed of themselves.
I also love the idea of this statue standing not far from tRump's view--like a constant reminder that women will not be silent and submissive anymore.

[packman]

8. Could have been a 555 ft. Penis - Oh, wait - That's the Wash. Monument

[dameatball]

9. Imagining Trump on a large ladder trying to cop a feel.

[FakeNoose]

10. Cheeto will probably grab something different

[Liberalagogo]

11. As usual....

[gibraltar72]

12. I think we should all be sensitive

to the feelings of this wonderful couple. Theirs was a true American love story so wholesome and pure. Consumated in the cloakroom of the congress and the back seats of Lincoln town cars. Eventually it was so powerful that Caligula became the third Mrs. Gingrich.

[Achilleaze]

13. "Leave our freaking phallus alone." - Repube Family-values Phallus Coalition

"Big gnarly phalluses are cool (heh, heh), but don't let none of them there womenfolk have an inch of space." - repube devotees of Comrade Casino, the republican family-values role model, and Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[riversedge]

19. chuckle

[ailsagirl]

14. OMG!!!!!!

[Blue_Tires]

16. Is the statue single? Because she is stacked!

[Nitram]

17. This from the horndog who tests out new wives while he's still married to the one he is planning

to leave. They probably do it in the dark with most of their clothes on.

[dalton99a]

18. Too much temptation for the pig

[Danascot]

21. Must be by the same artist

Who did a similar one for Burning Man a couple of years ago.