{"id":636,"date":"2007-10-09T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=636"},"modified":"2011-06-08T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:42:55","slug":"giuliani-artists-constitutional-interest-minimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani: Artists’ Constitutional Interest Minimal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRepublican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has a record of authoritarian positions on crime, foreign policy and terrorism. His tendency toward dictatorial rule extends even to the arts. In 1997 he argued a case against street artists in New York saying:<\/p>\n

“An exhibition of paintings is not as communicative as speech, literature or live entertainment, and the artists’ constitutional interest is thus minimal.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All America needs now is a president who doesn’t think that art is communication or that it is protected by the Constitution. Welcome to the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has a record of authoritarian positions on crime, foreign policy and terrorism. His tendency toward dictatorial rule extends even to the arts. In 1997 he argued a case against street artists in New York saying: “An exhibition of paintings is not as communicative as speech, literature or live entertainment, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1,16],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","category-wankery","tag-rudy-giuliani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ag","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4621,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4621","url_meta":{"origin":636,"position":0},"title":"The Great Suppression: Republicans Clampdown On Art","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/8\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican Party likes to pretend that they are the defenders of individual freedom in America. 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