From the Vault of Art Shay: The End Of An Age
By Art Shay in News on Mar 7, 2012 9:20PM
An attorney for Pimps United against Slander—who declined to use his name—sent this action portrait of PUAS president Bryant Bellerophon who said, \"I went to trade school with Rick Santorum, and he got a straight D for riveting.\" He did call his teacher \"a sunovabitchin\' bastard who smoked too much.\" (Turnabout is really fair play.) The underdog no longer stands alone. Ex-wives, gal pals, and other victims of lard-brains have been surfacing. (Photo: Art Shay)\r\n
\"Lady with the Clippers\" beautician source and rumored girlfriend or political strategist behind one of Rush Limbaugh\'s political tirades against an alleged prostitute who wanted to extirpate her employer\'s input from her medical dossier. The clipper manufacturer withdrew several of his ads after the incident, and Limbaugh apologized for calling the meticulous lady a slut. (Photo: Art Shay)
A Chicago carnival dancer stands by waiting to be accused of raising and home schooling Barack Obama in an Azerbaijan foster home. The emcee claims to have in his possession the original \"Bird Certificate\" proving Obama was an Eagle Scout who had passed the Eagle Scout Bird Study Merit Badge. A prominent radio commentator asserts he had \"misheard\" bird for \"birth,\" and then misspoke it in an accusation, trilling the last part. Said commentator said he had \"misheard\" the accusation while out on a Limbaugh. (Photo: Art Shay)
An emergency confessional set up by two policemen, one trained in first aid, the other in Miranda shorthand. This is how the sinking of the \<em\>Andrea Doria\<\/em\> and Rick Perry were solved by local seagoing \<em\>carabinieri\<\/em\> close to the Somali Navy. The unforced but badly muttered confession is making its way though the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and Ohio, with Florida standing by, in case of a tie. In case of a tie, duplicate decisions will be awarded. (Photo: Art Shay)
A prominent Midwestern prison was considering removing its ad from Limbaugh\'s program. No one wants his reputation sullied. News is no longer news. Its ramifications branch out into all corners of our society. (Photo: Art Shay)
Muhammad Ali draws a bead on an accuser who called him \"too violent\" for words. \"People like this should be put away.\" Ali fought back and put him away. (Photo: Art Shay)
A confused voter examines a pigeon left for dead by a cab bearing a Santorum bumper sticker. \"Poor little thing,\" she exclaimed.\"Where was all that Romney money when it was needed to save one poor soul?\" We all care about something. (Photo: Art Shay)
A loving mother, distraught at her son\'s poor marksmanship, would cut out personal luxuries rather than have him end up as a failed sniper criticized by the commentariat of his day. (Photo: Art Shay)T\r\n\r\n
One solution to lousy marksmanship in sniping is early training on a machine gun! Surely there\'ll be room for two snipers and how they got that way in a movie of this scope. (Pun intended.) [Photo: Art Shay]
![One solution to lousy marksmanship in sniping is early training on a machine gun! Surely there\'ll be room for two snipers and how they got that way in a movie of this scope. (Pun intended.) [Photo: Art Shay]](https://chicagoist.com/upload/2012/03/03072012-ArtShay_009.jpg)
This candid of post-grad Romney or Santorum is sure to be used in the election movie! Both men have implied what a waste of time secondary education is! What better proof than this frame of how Romney and Rick got started, despite their BAs degrees! They chucked it all away to be like their votariat. \"Ignoramuses,\" they said proudly and separately, \"make the best voters.\" Here Rom-torum rests after scoring day old fish and fries from a Madison Street beanery. Dig that Rambler Wagon. Of the people. (Photo: Art Shay)
(Legendary Chicago-based photographer Art Shay has taken photos of kings, queens, celebrities and the common man in a 60-year career. In this week's look at his archives, Art looks at recent news headlines.)
We live in a time of outrage outdoing outrage like melancholy on brood. Earlier this year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that Barack Obama's pouring money into industry had not
created a single job. Without breaking an editorial sweat, the New York Times found that Perry was off by a million or two million jobs.
Last week, Rush Limbaugh thought he was merely savaging a young woman he called a prostitute and slut for trying to score birth control pills. This time, his words cost him myriad commercial advertising for his network. (American women at their best!)
A teenage activist I know in Norwood Park, Ill. told me, "As soon as I realized he was insulting all women, my friends and I immediately pulled a list of his clients from the net and started complaining to the manufacturers one at a time. They really listened. Of course we threatened not to buy anything with their name on it."
The age of Olive Oyl complaining, "Oh Popeye! What shall I do?" is officially over.
Lots of ages are over. The little guy or girl—like my young friend—is smarter than at least one of her gross detractors.
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![One solution to lousy marksmanship in sniping is early training on a machine gun! Surely there\'ll be room for two snipers and how they got that way in a movie of this scope. (Pun intended.) [Photo: Art Shay]](http://chicagoist.com/upload/2012/03/03072012-ArtShay_009.jpg)
