By now you all know that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize .  After deciding that the Nobel Committee probably didn’t award it as a consolation prize for Obama’s having lost before the International Olympic Committee, I tried to figure out what “peace” the Nobel Committee meant.  After all, this is a guy so ineffectual that even Saturday Night Live points out that he does absolutely nothing.

Get ready for the newest chapter in right wing lunacies – the “art fraud” chapter.  Malkin and her minions are on a rampage over what they consider to be “fraudulent art” in the White House.  Here is their smoking gun: The artist is Alma Thomas and the piece is called “Watusi”. As Malkin can’t help but point out, Thomas is a African America (oohhh shudder). They are saying that Thomas’ pieces is a copy Henri Matisse’s “L’Escargot” (the snail):   Wow now they do look very similar indeed.

Apparently, the Obama’s questionable taste in art includes a penchant for frauds. Alma Thomas’ 1963 “Watusi (Hard Edge)” is unmistakably a knock-off of Henrí Matisse’s 1953 “L’Escargot.” No, I’m not an art buff, the symmetry is uncanny, and forms a near-perfect overlay. In other news, Michelle Malkin is plagiarizing my original.Posted by Confederate Yankee at October 8, 2009 08:12 PM