Horror! Drag Queens and Mao on White House Christmas Tree

Proof of the radical gay agenda? Simon Doonan—the Barney's New York creative director last seen hooking up with NBA hotness Ben Gordon—decorated the White House Christmas Tree in the Blue Room. The right-wing wingnuts and teabaggers are outraged the decoupaged ornaments include a signed photo of New York City drag star Hedda Lettuce and Andy Warhol's campy presentation of Chairman Mao.

The predictable shock and horror from FOX News, who notes the ornaments are "too close to baby Jesus" AFTER THE JUMP...

Comments

[Xavier Dereon]

With millions of people jobless and many more starving, this is what they worry about?

Really???

[A. Ronald]

Well, you can't say the Obama White House doesn't love gays. They let an A-gay decorate the tree and put a drag queen on an ornament. That's equality!

/snark

[History Major]

Didn't Jesus wear dresses?

[TheRevKev]

All of that said, I'm just a bit intrigued at the need to play CAMPY at the White House. I mean at the end of the day, I am gayer than most people and I don't get it. It's a moment that maybe Simon thought he'd get away with but WHY?! Why "get away" with disrespecting the White House with CHAIRMAN MAO? I don't know if I really care about the drag queen ornaments because maybe that was a statement of WE ARE AMERICA and all kinds of "folks" are on the tree, but come on!

See, gonna be hard to make real steps when we keep taking backwards steps like this. It's cute but dang, I would have expected this A-list, front-page designer to "do" something better than camp for Christmas. That's so 1980s.

[Vinny]

much ado about nothing...i meant Mao. it's a Warhol inspired ornament. whining about an Xmas ornament is really, really splitting hairs. Now are we supposed to abandon the color RED altogether?!, and how about any Chinese ornaments?! get real!

[Craig merkey]

News, culture and a spelling lesson. I didn't know how to spell decoupage once again thank you !
Thanks. We're full service here! ;) -RM