Why Cher Is Steamed at John Ashcroft (washingtonpost.com) Cher added: "I'm not the bastion of good taste. No one knows that better than I."
But she doesn't buy Justice's argument that the sculptures -- created by Prix de Rome winner C. Paul Jennewein -- are a visual distraction during Attorney General John Ashcroft's news conferences and terrorism alerts. "If he doesn't want to make speeches in front of them, let him make speeches somewhere else," she scoffed. "He's mobile."