Megyn Kelly Says New MLK Statue 'Looks Like a Giant Penis'
By: Candice Ortiz (Mediaite)
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Radio host Megyn Kelly compared the new commemorative MLK statue in Boston to an unusual body part.
On the Monday edition of her SiriusXM radio show The Megyn Kelly Show, she was joined by writers Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke.
During their conversation, the topic of the new MLK statue arose.
Kelly explained that the designer of the statue modeled it after an embrace that Dr. King and Coretta Scott King shared after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
"So they wanted to do a statue. They hired Hank Willis Thomas to create this sculpture that would wind up in Boston Common. Sitting on the 1965 Freedom Plaza, which honors 69 local civil rights leaders," Kelly explained.
She showed a picture of the statue, aptly named "The Embrace."
"Okay, this is what they came up with. It was meant to be just, be the arms and the hands of the hug. What it looks like, I'm just gonna say it — is a giant penis being held by two hands," she said bluntly.
"Look at this. Look, YouTubers, I'm sorry, but that's a — that looks like a giant penis right there. I'm sorry," Kelly continued.
"This is why you need to run stuff by people close to you — your spouse," Lowry suggested. "You know, 'What do you think of the design, honey? Well, it looks like a schlong dear.'"
As the conversation continued, Lowry noted that "we've lost the capacity to create public beauty."
"There's no piece of public art the last 50 years that has been beautiful or uplifting. I mean, it's just amazing. Michelangelo could do the David 500 years ago and now 500 years on with all sorts of technical advance and what have you — that's all we can do," Lowry noted.
Watch above via Sirius XM's The Megyn Kelly Show.
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Megyn, sweetheart, get your mind out of the gutter.
Coretta's cousin as well:
I have looked at this thing from about 6 different angles. I dont see the penis thing. It is a very stylized sculpture, but not an unheard of style.
People think its ugly and right wingers think it looks like a penis. In a couple years it will be a beloved icon to the community.
Perhaps, stranger things have happened.
In the late 1960's this sculpture by Pablo Picasso was installed in Daley Plaza in Chicago, across the street from city hall. At the time it was considered by chicago residents as the ugliest thing they had ever seen. For the past 45 years or so Chicagoans have been proud of it.
Time will bring a new perspective.
Familiarity can soften criticism and people get accustomed even to the ugly.
Ah, that accounts for the change in status of Impressionism or closer to home Abstract Expressionism. Methinks you should cease and desist commenting on a subject that you have little knowledge on other than some vapid 'I knows what I likes' nonsense.
Megyn herself is a giant penis...IOW a dickhead.
I see MLK's embracing arms but were is Coretta? Maybe if that hade made it to scale, $10M might have gotten them a complete likeness instead several body parts.
Is this more pleasing to your refined tastes?
No, I'm a damn Yankee.
Sorry John, I don't see the similarity.
That "statue" is like a prolonged practical joke that Boston will have to live with.
I see it now
The problem is obviously that the artist was "woke".
If by being untalented and uncreative, you would be right.
The sculpture should at least give some clue as to who or what it represents.
Yes siree, the sculptor is untalented and uncreative ... @!@
Why not have a sculpture that would more closely resemble MLK and show some respect...it can be done.
Consider the more realistic art created by Black Africans in Zimbabwe.
There are many statues of MLK, methinks your complaints of the latest are merely a bandwagon kneejerk.
"There are statues of him in — among many places — Austin, Texas; Aurora, Colorado; Roanoke, Virginia; Chester, Pennsylvania; Riverside, California; Jacksonville, Florida; White Plains, New York; and Washington D.C. There are statues in Westminster Abbey, London; Mexico City, Mexico; Tuzla, Bosnia; and Pretoria, South Africa. There are at least eight in North Jersey."
much better views
It is a style of art. I dont particularly care for it, but then I'm not an artist.
Let's see: shit, shit, shit and shit !
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Art and politics should never mix.
Appreciate it or degrade it as is your right, but to conflate it into some personal ax to grind does nothing but diminish the argument.
Henry Moore would have thought the same about your comments.
“I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are.”
- Author: L. Neil Smith
It's not just people on the right that think it is inappropriate and ugly.
…it is exactly ‘people on the right”.,,
If it is true, it appears that it may be because.............
Sad. Pathetic. Ignorant.
Exactly, $10M well spent.
I prefer the MLK Monument here on the National Mall.
I prefer silence to just about anything Megyn Kelly opines on.
Memorable FOX performance the night of Obama's second victory.
This lawyer by trade for 8 years
One of 2014's most influential top 100 people
she earned a $10million dollar advance for her autobiography in 2016.
Left Fox in 2017 for NBC, canceled in 2018, left NBC in 2019.
Now a "fixture" on Sirius Radio with a podcast ...
my, my, my, now an art critic...
I guess she knows what she likes, does this monument move you? Do you find it aesthetically pleasing? Do you think it properly honors the Kings?
Of course not but that isn't stopping anyone from chiming in for some safe tribal affirmation from their yes yes clans.
A notable display of bravery that should be commended by all of us.
Are you kidding? I'm from Philadelphia, a clothespin statue passes for art,
(but it is reminiscent of when we all hung our washed clothes out to dry)
Having seen the picture and all sides of the sculpture I understand it.
I don't see a turd or a giant phallus of any sort.
Just the ring of arms which forms a heart on one side.
Butt somebody always has to complain, that's who we have become.
Megyn isn't the topic.
Wow, I am not impressed by Kelly 'knowing' what she likes. As to your 3 questions, yes to each ... but then as someone who was trained in the visual arts and taught them, what do I know ... @!@
Clans being ubiquitous to all sides, what's the difference between a yes yes clan and a no no clan?
What an embarrassment to the family of MLK.
One cousin does not an entire family make.
Come on Megyn. A giant penis? It's average at best.
That is one severe case of Peyronie's disease if that's the case....................................
Or maybe the bent carrot syndrome...whatever it is called?
That's Peyronies..........................
Gotcha...like advertised on TV!
Yup
That's funny. That's what I say about the Amazon icon
Me too till I learned that it signifies A to Z (starts at the A and the "head" HEHEHE is at the Z
Ah...I can get smarter here
Is this your idea of being on topic?
really Greg?
I don’t see that particular body part, but I definitely don’t like the sculpture. Not every creative idea is a good one.