{"id":94410,"date":"2018-02-14T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94410"},"modified":"2018-02-14T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:00:53","slug":"misleading-msm-article-about-sean-hannitys-obama-portrait-expose-reveals-hidden-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94410","title":{"rendered":"Misleading MSM Article About Sean Hannity&#8217;s Obama Portrait Expos\u00e9 Reveals Hidden Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sean Hannity Uncovers \u2018Secret Sperm\u2019 in Obama\u2019s Portrait<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Eric Levitz<br \/>\nnymag.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94413\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/13-sean-hannity.w710.h473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94413\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/13-sean-hannity.w710.h473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/13-sean-hannity.w710.h473.jpg 710w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/13-sean-hannity.w710.h473-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All the sperm we cannot see.\u00a0Photo: Nicholas Kamm\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm55k1u01kspqy6iw9pa7tl@published\" data-word-count=\"92\">There\u2019s no right way to react to any piece of art \u2014 let alone to the official portrait of America\u2019s first black president. So, it\u2019s hardly surprising that Kehinde Wiley\u2019s rendering of Barack Obama has been met with a set of responses as varied and eclectic as the painter\u2019s own influences. Some, like\u00a0<em>New York<\/em>\u2019s Jerry Saltz,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/02\/the-obamas-official-portraits-rise-to-the-occasion.html\">found<\/a>\u00a0Wiley\u2019s decision to enmesh the president in a \u201chighly colorful natural setting\u201d gave his Obama \u201ca mysteriously human presence.\u201d Others felt the greenery denied Obama his due gravitas, or<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BlairGuild\/status\/963074087990984704\">\u00a0evoked a classic Simpsons joke.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7qxlg00213c4y3cci33ct@published\" data-word-count=\"24\">And, apparently, a few, troubled right-wingers were too disgusted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180213185221\/http:\/\/www.hannity.com\/media-room\/portrait-perversion-obama-portrait-features-secret-sperm-artist-joked-about-killing-whitey\/\">the \u201csecret sperm\u201d<\/a>\u00a0all over Obama to have any opinion about the verdant background.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hannity first tweeted this ridiculous, if not racist, thing about Obama&#39;s portrait. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ZJivkbY2K\">pic.twitter.com\/2ZJivkbY2K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris \u201cLaw Dork\u201d Geidner (@chrisgeidner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisgeidner\/status\/963475989983612931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7qxlg00213c4y3cci33ct@published\" data-word-count=\"24\">This Sean Hannity tweet (which has since be deleted) linked to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180213185221\/http:\/\/www.hannity.com\/media-room\/portrait-perversion-obama-portrait-features-secret-sperm-artist-joked-about-killing-whitey\/\">this blog post<\/a>\u00a0by \u201cHannity Staff\u201d (which has since been deleted).<\/p>\n<div class=\"mediaplay-image flex \" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/mediaplay-image\/instances\/cjdm7qxlj00223c4y3amd760l@published\" data-editable=\"inlinestuff\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-data\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/13\/13-sean-hannity-sperm-hed.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/13\/13-sean-hannity-sperm-hed.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg 1x, http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/13\/13-sean-hannity-sperm-hed.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.2x.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" data-content-img=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sean Hannity&#39;s website claims the Obama portrait includes a hidden sperm <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dlQR08l99n\">https:\/\/t.co\/dlQR08l99n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYpqqB2V0q\">pic.twitter.com\/LYpqqB2V0q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will Sommer (@willsommer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willsommer\/status\/963469287330664450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7qxle001z3c4yk5rzehyr@published\" data-word-count=\"45\">The post argues that the president\u2019s portrait is secretly perverted \u2014 and subtly hateful toward white people \u2014 on the basis of two sentences from a pair of years-old stories on Wiley\u2019s work. The first comes from a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/05\/arts\/design\/05stud.html\">2008 New York\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0of Wiley:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/blockquote\/instances\/cjdm7r3yp00283c4yavj8vjz4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-word-count=\"33\"><p>His portraits initially depicted African-American men against rich textile or wallpaper backgrounds whose patterns he has\u00a0<strong>likened to abstractions of sperm.<\/strong>\u00a0Some of the subjects were famous (rap and sports stars), others not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7rghe002e3c4y6guxoc3z@published\" data-word-count=\"26\">Here, Wiley ostensibly observed that the swirling, abstract backgrounds he favors look a bit like sperm \u2014 not that they are intended as\u00a0<em>representations\u00a0<\/em>of semen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7squm002k3c4yt8pbgtix@published\" data-word-count=\"15\">The second quote comes from a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/art\/rules\/kehinde-wiley-2012-4\/\"><em>New York<\/em>\u00a0Magazine<\/a>\u00a0interview with Wiley, published in 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/blockquote\/instances\/cjdm7sslg002p3c4yslccdoop@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-word-count=\"93\"><p>In a soaring studio on the outskirts of Beijing, where Kehinde Wiley came in 2006 to set up the first of his several global production outposts, the 35-year-old painter is showing off his women \u2026 one already stands out: a tall, elegant black woman in a long blue dress \u2014 the canvas is enormous, eight feet by ten feet \u2014 calmly staring down the viewer. In one hand, she holds a knife. In the other, a cleanly severed brunette female head. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of a play on the \u2018kill whitey\u2019 thing,\u201d Wiley says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7t1fj002v3c4yab3u56cr@published\" data-word-count=\"33\">Ostensibly, the artist is saying that his piece is intended as a reflection on black rage \u2014 not as an exhortation for African-American women to decapitate as many white devils as they can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjdm7v0yf00313c4ydxk02l02@published\" data-word-count=\"60\">That said, these two quotes would seem to\u00a0<em>more<\/em>\u00a0than meet the burden of proof that Fox News typically applies to stories about how Barack Obama (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/05\/10\/white-house-invite-political-rapper-stirs-controversy.html\">and\/or, black artists he favored<\/a>) degraded the office of the presidency. Thus, the mystery here isn\u2019t why Sean Hannity tweeted his staff\u2019s expos\u00e9 on secret sperm, but rather,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PhWNphRW9Ug\">why he chose to delete it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/sean-hannity-uncovers-secret-sperm-in-obamas-portrait.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/sean-hannity-uncovers-secret-sperm-in-obamas-portrait.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hannity Uncovers \u2018Secret Sperm\u2019 in Obama\u2019s Portrait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}