Yesterday, we learned that former mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry would be honored with a wax statue of his likeness in the new D.C. version of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. And of course, we joked about placing Hizzoner’s statue in any number of court or hotel room settings, playing up his ‘Bitch Set Me Up’ milieu while paying tribute to his superheroic invulnerability to getting into any real trouble. But leave it to FOX 5 to uncover the shocking truth: in fact, Madame Tussaud’s is likely planning on placing the Barry statue in a ‘Scandal Room’ that would also feature statues of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

Taking time out between stories about common household appliances that can kill you in your sleep and how strangers are looking to kidnap your children and take them to cities without adequate disaster evacuation plans, FOX 5 broke the news to the former mayor on camera last night. If you have the patience to click through to their frustrating flash-based web site, go here and then click on the ‘videos’ link in the ‘SideBar’ for the report. In it you can see Barry brushing off the reporter’s question about whether this decision by the museum would be a “slap in the face for the District.” It’s too bad Barry didn’t feel the need to demonstrate what a proper slap in the face really feels like in response.

The museum has yet to make a final decision on the matter, but is reportedly leaning strongly toward the ‘Scandal Room’ placement.