Obama as "The Joker"

[ericire12]

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

[tombogan03884]

I saw someone with this as their avatar back when this first broke.... not sure who it was

 Badgersmilk.

[philw]

guess they won't like this one then 

[philw]

got to love google

[WatchManUSA]

guess they won't like this one then 

“I decided I couldn't bankrupt the economy fast enough so I decided to burn up treasury instead.”

Obamus Maximous

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[ericire12]

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:



*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/

[tt11758]

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!!!

[blackwolfe]

Looks like art to me.  That should qualify it for a free-pass.

And a government art grant.

[Kid Shelleen]

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.

[Neon Knight Anubis]

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.