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This is Studio 360.

I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

This first level of garden.

This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.

I like to have the roasted chicken biscuit.

Very well done.

Editing is all about timing.

I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.

You must get sick of your own voice, right?

Studio 360. It's good. Anderson.

This week's show is about political art. Of all kinds.

I chose to use an undisclosed studio to focus on the task of embedding in a single painting,

all the mindless, radical, and dangerous atrocities of the Obama administration.

That declaration comes from a 2012 video by a painter named John McNaughton describing a work of his called Obama Nation.

McNaughton made his name as a protest artist during the last administration.

His depictions of President Obama, stepping on the Constitution, burning the Constitution,

smiling as he looks out over a wrecked America, sold well and were

widely shared online. But before any of that happened, John McNaughton was earning a living

selling landscapes and religious scenes until 2008. You know, I got the idea for a painting

called One Nation Under God during the 2008 election. And, you know, I got the idea for a painting called One Nation Under God during the 2008 election.

And, you know, I spent about six months jelling on it and thinking about it.

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