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| Designer’s NY Store Selling Bush Deck of Cards |
| 2004-06-07 |
| Whatever happened to that brutal "suppression of dissent" we were hearing so much about? NEW YORK (Reuters) - A newly minted deck of cards of President Bush and members of his team akin to the Saddam Hussein cards hawked during the Iraq war are selling at a brisk pace in New York. Locals are snapping up the cards at Marc Jacobs’ chic clothing store and other shops in Greenwich Village, retailing for as much as $11, store officials said. Street vendors and Internet outlets are also peddling the cards, which portray the Bush administration in a comically negative light. "Oh, yes. The Bush cards? They’re right over there next to the butt plugs. You’re welcome." For the past week, the Jacobs’ Bleecker St. outlet has drawn crowds of gawkers to look at huge blowups of the playing cards hanging in the window. Riffing on the Saddam playing cards that were sold in the run-up to and early days of U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the cards depict Bush as the ace of spades, with Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld rounding out the four aces. Each "carefully stacked deck" features a picture and some negative tidbits about the depicted party. Cheney’s ace of clubs lists his 2000 Halliburton income ($36 million) and the figure 13,500 -- the number of pages of energy-related documents he has withheld from the U.S. Congress. Better get a deck before they sell out, Mucky. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice is the queen of hearts. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the six of clubs and carries a quote from his brother the president; "Jeb has assured me we have Florida," made during the hotly contested 2000 presidential election. Yeah, it was all part of the plan. The jokers in the deck are both Bush -- one of the president missing an attempt to hit a T-ball, another of him decked out in a flight suit, when he declared an end to major combat in Iraq a year ago. So in the same deck he’s the evil mastermind and a buffoon? Make up your minds, willya? The Greenwich Village store display also includes bumper stickers reading "Nobody died when Clinton lied" and "GOP -- Greed, Oil and Plunder," assorted anti-Bush buttons and even toilet paper featuring the president’s image. The display was the brainchild of Marc Jacobs President Robert Duffy, who had the approval of the high fashion designer. The "high" fashion designer? I like that. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 Shouldn't this be Page 2? Anyway, Jacobs is of course the same designer who did the |
| Posted by: someone 2004-06-07 10:22:01 PM |