Ben Cohen: 12 ft. effigy of Bush with fake flames shooting from the pants

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5473067/



Ice cream mogul puts
Bush in the hot seat
Mobile, burning effigy exposes 'lies'

The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is on the road, towing a 12-foot-tall effigy of President Bush with fake flames shooting out of the pants.

Ben Cohen says it’s an acceptable way to point out what he calls the president’s lies.

“In a polite society, you don’t go up to a person and look at them in the face and say, ’You’re a liar,”’ Cohen said in a telephone interview before arriving in Spokane, the next stop on the Pants on Fire Tour.

The “PantsOnFire-Mobile” is a trailer pulled behind a car. The Bush character wears a flight suit with the words “Mission Accomplished” emblazoned on the back, a reference to the president’s declaration aboard the deck of an aircraft carrier that major hostilities had ended in Iraq. An electronic ticker on the front displays what Cohen says are Bush’s lies.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. it drove by my house; it was great! hope jeb saw it

[Radical Activist]

2. This is the funnies and maybe dumbest protest of Bush

I've seen in a long time. I love it though. I'm going to go buy some ice cream.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Remember, Ben and Jerry no longer own the ice cream company.

:-)

[Radical Activist]

8. But they still have stock

and make money when the company does well, don't they?

[SiouxJ]

4. notice the poll on the same page

Kerry ahead. :-) Don't foget to add your vote while you're there.

Cohen rocks!

[GOPisEvil]

5. This thing was at the South by Southwest in March.

I got to see it cruising the streets of Austin. :-)

[SiouxJ]

6. You get all the good stuff

not fair! ;-) :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

7. I was on my way to see Mission of Burma that night, too!

:7

I keep telling ya that you've gotta come! :hi:

Congrats to your boyfriend. He did great today! How's France?

[SiouxJ]

9. Oh hush up!

you!

L'ampèreheure, France était merveilleux ! Le vin, l'art, les types chauds dans la bicyclette court-circuite ! ;-)

[GOPisEvil]

10. And a jaunty alloetta to you too!

:D

[SiouxJ]

11. Vous aiment mon français ?

Je l'ai juste pris ! Huh impressionnant ?

(Gotta love babel fish ;-) )

[stevielizard]

12. I saw that in Aspen last week!

I was out of view on a street with four al fresco dining spots when all of a sudden the whole block started cheering- missed it the first time but this is a smallass town and when it drove by two more times people cheered again. Now we do get a LOT of *loving tourists here, but I picture them grumbling rather than booing.