BDS as performance art

Bush Derangement Syndrome breaks out in New York in  a butt-kicking way:

Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside.

The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass".

Though few ordinary New Yorkers, other than fellow artists, cameramen and photographers, were present for the launch on a wet workday afternoon, some people gave him a kick.

"It felt real good to kick Bush," said Casmirr Sharp, 52, of New York's Queens borough. "He really deserves more than a kick."

McGowan told Reuters he hopes his performance proves therapeutic to the city's denizens. But he insisted his work was no publicity stunt but art: "It's definitely an art form. A lot of the things I do are a bit silly but they always have a political edge to them."

McGowan said he does not have any particular political stance on the Republican president, who has seen his approval ratings plunge in the face of an unpopular war in Iraq.

He doesn't have any particular political stance on the Republican president. 

Really.

You get the idea this guy ought to be working for or married to Jim Wallis?

UPDATE: Lorie Byrd at WizBang has a suggestion:

Maybe if he really has no particular political stance (I don't know if he does or not), his next project could be walking the streets wearing a Hillary mask and letting people slap him.

Heh.

Comments

[Berzerk]

Oh goodness gracious! Whish I had been there to give him the boot he deserves.

[Jim]

Slap Hillary?
He'd never make a mile.
Sounds delicious though.