… it wasn’t exactly Mao. It was Andy Warhol’s “Mao.”

The image is one of a very large series of silkscreen paintings and prints the late Pop artist made of Mao. Warhol’s parody transformed the leader of the world’s most populous nation into a vapid superstar — the most famous of the famous. The portrait photo from Mao’s Little Red Book is tarted up with lipstick, eye-shadow and other Marilyn Monroe-style flourishes.

Where did the Christmas decoration come from?

“We took about 800 ornaments left over from previous administrations,” First Lady Michelle Obama explained in an earlier press release about getting the White House ready for the holidays, “we sent them to 60 local community groups throughout the country, and asked them to decorate them to pay tribute to a favorite local landmark and then send them back to us for display here at the White House.”

The precise source of the Warhol ornament is not known. But Warhol’s Maos are in art museum collections from coast to coast, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago (whose painting most resembles the ornament image) and both the County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Not surprisingly, Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum has several.

Oh, and at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, the National Gallery of Art has 21 different versions of Warhol’s “Mao.” Twenty-one. Wait until Big Government bloggers find out about the Communist takeover of the National Gallery. …

Of course, typical leftist that you are, it is you that is disrespecting Lincoln and Washington, and this nation and its traditions, including the WH, not conservatives. You are projecting your hatred on to Americans.

I’m not the group complaining about South Dakotans proud of their hosting Mt. Rushmore. I’m not the group howling about America’s great art museums plugging their holdings on Christmas ornaments. It would be impossible to be so any more petty.

Typical Maxist sophistry, and just as typically immoral and intellectually dishonest. And you full well know that Obama is a Marxist–a Maoist too for that matter–just like you are, That is why you voted for him. If you were a decent American you would understand that he degrades the White House everyday he is in that office. He degrades the country too. Just as you do. That is what you live for.

Marxism? You mean, like the mau-mauing you’re trying to give the White House now?

I understand that the office of the presidency deserves respect regardless the current occupant. I understand that it’s poor form, cheap politics, and sour grapes, to whine about Christmas tree ornaments.

Get a manners transplant, Hattip.

Are we to imagine that they would approve of Obama or what the Democrats have been doing to the country the last 70 years . Not if you have any understanding of them would you say this.

If you are going to set up straw men, you at least ought to put some legs on them so as they might stand up for just a few seconds on their own.

Of course, typical leftist that you are, it is you that is disrespecting Lincoln and Washington, and this nation and its traditions, including the WH, not conservatives. You are projecting your hatred on to Americans. Typical Maxist sophistry, and just as typically immoral and intellectually dishonest. And you full well know that Obama is a Marxist–a Maoist too for that matter–just like you are, That is why you voted for him. If you were a decent American you would understand that he degrades the White House everyday he is in that office. He degrades the country too. Just as you do. That is what you live for.

Here we thought you did this because you were immoral. I have a question: After you destroy us, destroy the real, decent productive Americas, just who do you think is going to pay for your parasitic programs and unearned and un-merited lifestyles? China? Hint: they are run by commies too.

Oh nad UF, someone that voted for Obama should not be making snide remarks about IQ.

Go about a minute into the video. You’ll see close ups of other ornaments that were decorated for the WH.
Then see if the branches in the WH video seem to match the branch in the photo of the Mao ornament.

In my semi-educated opinion (a photographer who took a botany class) you’ll note that the branches in the WH video do not have ’rounded tips’… not that you can see at least. If anything, the video seems to prove that the branches APPEAR to be the same type of branches as the ones in the Mao Ornament photo.

Please go there and look.