Student's Bush=Hitler "art" project gets an 'A'

The lovely and charming Michelle Malkin (yeah, I'm a kiss-up - sue me) reports on the world of crappy high school art:

Jeffrey Eden devised his award-winning project less than 30 minutes after his high-school art teacher asked him to express a thought or two in a three-dimensional way.So, in the wake of last year's polarizing election and the war in Iraq, the 17-year-old built an abstract scene comparing President Bush's war policies with Adolf Hitler's pillage of Europe.The student's diorama-like assemblage juxtaposes Hitler quotes with Bush statements, Nazi swastikas with American flags, desert-colored toy soldiers with olive plastic figures. And so on. Eden said he's trying to point out certain similarities between the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the German blitzkrieg - without actually equating Hitler to Bush.

Michelle exposes the utter bogusness of that last line by pointing out that the project was named "Bush/Hitler and How History Repeats Itself."

Take a look at the picture of the project on Michelle's blog. I'm no art critic or teacher, but even I can determine that the basic construction alone (plastic army men passes for art now?) is worthy of little more than a 'D,' and that's only because the student put at least some work into it. Not much, I'm sure, but some. The originality of the project is zilch, too - the "Bush=Hitler" comparisons have been floating around for years, now.

It makes sense, though, that he got an 'A.' Art teachers tend to be flaming, dyed-in-the-wool liberals who agree that "Bush=Hitler." I'm sure all the student really had to do was write that phrase on a piece of paper and he would've gotten the same grade.

Idiots.

UPDATE: Speaking of idiots, I had the wrong url for the link to Michelle Malkin's blog entry. My bad. Let this be a lesson to all: don't blog when wiped out from a cold and overly-tired.