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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on August 05, 2009, 08:54:57 AM
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I originaly first saw this Pic on Michael's blog and just about fell off my chair laughing
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/04/article-1204213-05F20CC3000005DC-96_468x675.jpg)
tonight I get home and see that it has made the news over here
and some people are not happy.............. looks like it worked who ever made them up hehe
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25888353-401,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204213/Spoof-poster-Obamas-face-painted-The-Joker-branded-dangerous-mean-spirited.html
Poster first appeared on LA streets
Probably in relation to healthcare reform
Image takes off on the internet
A POSTER depicting Barack Obama as The Joker with the caption "socialism" has been labelled "mean-spirited" and "dangerous" by his supporters.
The poster, which first appeared around the streets of Los Angeles, has quickly spread across the internet.
The website that first published the image reportedly crashed because so many had been trying to view it, Daily Mail reported.
There have been few details about who put the posters up and why. However, it may be a reference to the continuing battle over healthcare reform.
Republican chairman Michael Steele first used the word "socialism" in relation to Mr Obama two weeks ago as he criticised the President's attempts to push Congress into passing $1 trillion in healthcare reforms, the Daily Mail reported.
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari was one supporter who voiced his disappointment.
"Depicting the President as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," he said.
"It is mean-spirited and dangerous."
However, the right-wing editor of the American Thinker website, Thomas Lifson, welcomed the image.
"It is starting," he said.
"Open mockery of of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader."
A social commentator writing for the Los Angeles Times said the artist had got it all wrong because The Joker was "resourceful, relentless and fast on his feet".
This isn't the first time The Joker's image has been used for a political message. In 2008, Vanity Fair ran a similar image of President Bush as The Joker.
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The hissy fit that is being thrown over this just further emphasizes that the lame stream media has gone from watchdog to lapdog.
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It would be mean spirited, if it weren't the absolute truth.
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It would be mean spirited, if it weren't the absolute truth.
Thats why they are calling it racism.
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BHO is a joke that's not funny ! >:(
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Looks like art to me. That should qualify it for a free-pass.
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Looks like art to me. That should qualify it for a free-pass.
Can't be "art" according to the lib definition, it doesn't show an upside down crucifix immersed in a jar of piss.
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Can't be "art" according to the lib definition, it doesn't show an upside down crucifix immersed in a jar of piss.
No it just shows a Piss Ant immersed in himself.
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Just ran across this blog, appears the screamin' libs thought posting W as the Joker in Vanity Fair was cool, funny, and bang on accurate (FQ, STFU).
http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/08/mean-spirited-and-dangerous-vs.html (http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/08/mean-spirited-and-dangerous-vs.html)
FTA on the W picture: "the comments were somewhat different:
Great stuff from the talented Friedman (as always). As "agents of chaos" go, W's right up there with the best of 'em.
Posted 7/29/2008 by Frankie5Angels
So true. Only his puppet strings are missing. :-)
Posted 7/29/2008 by MimiSoleil
Very good!!!
Posted 7/29/2008 by juckto
Poor Joker, he doesn't deserve this. Bush isn't good enough to wear his face.
Posted 7/29/2008 by japsmov
Brilliant and profound.
Posted 7/29/2008 by swordofdamocles
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I think this should be Jumbo's new avatar. I forget who wigged over his lawnmower man, but I think this would trigger a second round of creep-outs. ;D
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I think this should be Jumbo's new avatar.
I saw someone with this as their avatar back when this first broke.... not sure who it was
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I saw someone with this as their avatar back when this first broke.... not sure who it was
Badgersmilk.
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guess they won't like this one then ;D
(http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww313/tulkas87/obj1.jpg)
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got to love google
(http://www.wickedwebart.com/wwamyspace/joker-obama.jpg)
(http://makemetheking.com/Joker-Obama.JPG)
(http://c2.api.ning.com/files/w-8Io7kr4WjHogoNWbZ*v4CEeEyEo5yoRjHN9k7-vYadORLZDy91vcXtigRyiut1Xib7PU18XfLa56D6V-1DGIwNY3*M-L1-/ObamaJoker.jpg)
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guess they won't like this one then ;D
(http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww313/tulkas87/obj1.jpg)
“I decided I couldn't bankrupt the economy fast enough so I decided to burn up treasury instead.”
Obamus Maximous
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Thats why they are calling it racism.
Told ya so.....
Obama as The Joker: Racial Fear's Ugly Face
by Philip Kennicott
.....So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the "urban" makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can't openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and '70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.
The Joker's makeup in "Dark Knight" -- the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world -- emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence. Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks -- the thinking goes -- don't just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus. Scientific studies, which demonstrate the social consequences of living in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, get processed and misinterpreted in the popular unconscious, underscoring the idea. Violence breeds violence.
Superimpose that idea, through the Joker's makeup, onto Obama's face, and you have subtly coded, highly effective racial and political argument. Forget socialism, this poster is another attempt to accomplish an association between Obama and the unpredictable, seeming danger of urban life. It is another effort to establish what failed to jell in the debate about Obama's association with Chicago radical William Ayers and the controversy over the racially charged sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama, like the Joker and like the racial stereotype of the black man, carries within him an unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence, which could erupt at any time. The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he's black.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503876.html
The author even points out that on July 29, 2008 Vanity Fair published a pic online of George W as the Joker:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-Abp0mR6vLk/SW_IAGPkGZI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/LQXGBvj_Ows/s320/Bush-the-Joker.jpg)
*But hey, lets not let this stand in the way of the agenda...... "Anyone apposed to Obama is a racist. End of debate!"
Philip Kennicott Contact email:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/philip+kennicott/
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Obama as The Joker: Racial Fear's Ugly Face
by Philip Kennicott
.....So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the "urban" makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can't openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and '70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.
The Joker's makeup in "Dark Knight" -- the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world -- emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence. Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks -- the thinking goes -- don't just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus. Scientific studies, which demonstrate the social consequences of living in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, get processed and misinterpreted in the popular unconscious, underscoring the idea. Violence breeds violence.
Superimpose that idea, through the Joker's makeup, onto Obama's face, and you have subtly coded, highly effective racial and political argument. Forget socialism, this poster is another attempt to accomplish an association between Obama and the unpredictable, seeming danger of urban life. It is another effort to establish what failed to jell in the debate about Obama's association with Chicago radical William Ayers and the controversy over the racially charged sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama, like the Joker and like the racial stereotype of the black man, carries within him an unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence, which could erupt at any time. The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he's black.
BULLSHIT!!!
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Looks like art to me. That should qualify it for a free-pass.
And a government art grant.
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Can't be "art" according to the lib definition, it doesn't show an upside down crucifix immersed in a jar of piss.
No it just shows a Piss Ant immersed in himself.
10 Ring Tom. Perfect description.
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On one hand this is very fitting on the other I think the Joker needs an apology. HE could run this country with less corruption. >:(
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On one hand this is very fitting on the other I think the Joker needs an apology. HE could run this country with less corruption. >:(
Huey Long could've run this country with less corruption.
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James Michael Curly ran Boston from a jail cell, and even he didn't have balls enough to put a tax cheat in charge of revenue.
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The hissy fit that is being thrown over this just further emphasizes that the lame stream media has gone from watchdog to lapdog.
I'm going to steal that.
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UPDATE: White right-wing nut who created Obama Joker image neither white nor right-wing
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/18/white-right-wing-nut-who-created-obama-joker-image-neither-white-nor-right-wing/
Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois
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http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_with_Bill_Whittle/___The_Power_%26_Danger_of_Iconography%3A_The_Resistance_Steals_Obama%27s_Weapons/2317/