In the 1992 Republican presidential primaries, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cited Tongues Untied as an example of how President George H. W. Bush was investing "our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art."

From their knowledge Nagash combined dark magic with the ritual embalming magic of the priests of Khemri to create the blasphemous art of Necromancy.

The narrator accuses the Bush Administration of investing "our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show."

In a new high-voltage negative commercial that went on the air here Wednesday, Patrick J. Buchanan attacks President Bush for "investing tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art."

Conservative groups like the Christian Action Network and the American Family Association, led by the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, have long railed against the endowment, asserting that it supports pornographic, blasphemous and offensive art.

Consider also the television commercial with which Mr. Buchanan berated the Bush Administration for "investing our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show."

Patrick J. Buchanan broadcast television commercials in Georgia that accused President Bush of financing "pornographic and blasphemous art" through the National Endowment for the Arts.

The agency has been accused by Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina, and others, for supporting obscene and blasphemous art.

"Tax dollars should not fund pornographic, blasphemous or offensive art," said Representative John T. Doolittle of California, co-chairman of a bloc of hard-right House Republicans known as the Conservative Action Team.

Well perhaps a few, well-intentioned people like Jesse Helms [the senator who criticised the NEA vigorously for allocating public funds to pornographic and blasphemous art]might have said these things are disgusting.