ARTISTLIARTHIEF: Obama Artist Shepard Fairey Admits to Wrongdoing in Associated Press Lawsuit
by Big HollywoodL.A. Times just dropped this blockbuster:
In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his “Hope” poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.
“Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image,” Fairey said. “The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another.”
New filings to the court, he said, “state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used…and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong. In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images.”
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So, Shepard Fairey, you are both a cheat and a liar. BTW, was your lie just about art, did you perjure yourself in front of the judge or jury?
Does this mean that he's not going to be eligible for more NEA grants? Or does he get more now because he's going to have sudden unexpected expenses?
Shepard might as well lie–the guy on the poster surely does.Thanks,Joe Wilson
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So let me get this straight, the Associated Press and artist Shepard Fairey are actually fighting over the rights to be known for creating a propagandist symbol that lead to a nation losing HOPE in it's leadership, a fragile world order losing HOPE in it's beacon of freedom and prosperity, and a world renown peace committee losing HOPE in realized selfless courageous contributions to peace and humanity in favor of self-serving unrealized hopeful contributions to peace and humanity? Huh? I just don't get it.
P.S. I know I'm missing a period, a couple commas, and a transition in there somewhere. But come on that's pretty impressive as far as run on sentences go, don't you think?
Well bust my buttons. Hope and Progress based on a lie. Two liars do not make a right …. Ha
"knowingly submitted false images" pretty much sums up the Obama administration.
You get an "A"
Once more, here's my take on the HOposter
So to sum up, the left lies, always and absolutely, without remorse, without regret, without compunction.
If he gets thrown in jail, he can always get a job at ACORN
I sure 'hope' his creating that poster will 'change' his life for the better.
Its a poster, of a poser.
Wait, this is what passes as art now?
So he's a cheat, a liar, and a thief? Mr. Obama would like to talk to you about a Cabinet position, Mr. Fairey.
So the 'art of hope' is actually a fraud within a fraud about a fraud.
Covered in secret sauce!
Why is it that all of the people associated with obama always claim ignorance? Do we really want ignorant people running our country? NOT that this person is running our country but you know what I mean.
"Mr. Obama would like to talk to you about a Cabinet position, Mr. Fairey"
I'm just surprise obama hasn't snatched this guy up already.
Did he really think that in the internet age he'd be able to hide a source photograph?
Also this image is just a 4 tone paintover of a photograph, what's the big deal?
Si.
Lying can be so….ummmm.. so…. artistic.
SHEPARD FAIREY IS A VICTIM!
LEAVE FAIREY ALONE!!!
They learned it from their master who is running the country. ( Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, ACORN, his college theme paper,ect.)
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Ironic – Obama poster of Obama, who is the poster boy for deceit, which was created by a deceitful Obama supporter supporting hope. Change your story , hope they buy it . . . it's all about HOPE and CHANGE !
"Obama is incapable of telling the truth."
Rush Limbaugh
This is a site that shows a lot of Shepard Fairey's plagiarized works, and where they come from: http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
Thats way too much color for such a transparent president.
He lie. They lie.
Isn't this perjury? Knowingly submitting false stuff in a court case? Sure sounds like it. The courts generally despise people that lie to them, even if it's a noble lie about our sacred president and His beatification in a piece of hackneyed campaign propaganda.
I'd say Shepard Fairey's legal troubles are just begining. I'd say Fairey's had this coming.
Hahahaa
"B-b-b-b-but, it's about our beloved President/Saviour/Stimulator! That's what makes it a big deal! It's about hope!"
You know that's what more than a few of the Obama-bots would say.
It all began with the audacity of hope.
Then, our attention shifted to Roman Polanski and the audacity of grope.
Now comes Shepard Fairey with (dare I say it?) the audacity of taupe.
KingShamus, you surely do have a way with words.
Great thoughts, well expressed.
Wow! Thanks, Janet, for the very interesting link.
LOL — That is HI – FN – LARIOUS…!!
HA HA HA, indeed! Good one!
From another AP story, not included in the linked article above:
Fairey, a Los Angeles-based street artist with a long, often proud history of breaking rules, has said that he first designed the image in early 2008, after he was encouraged by the Obama campaign to come up with some kind of artwork.
In February 2009, he was arrested when he came to Boston for an event kicking off his solo exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art, among the most popular in the museum's more than 70-year history.
He faced dozens of vandalism charges, but nearly all were dropped. He pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges last summer and was sentenced to two years probation.
( http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-poster-artist... )
So basically, The One's campaign hired yet another scumbag for their team…
groan…
i was thinking more the audacity of dope. and the loyal opposition as the audacity of nope.
All grammatical errors are forgiven, in favor of outstanding content! GOOD ONE!
they're checking to make sure he's also behind on his taxes before making a firm offer…
LOL — Good one!! I knew someone would come along and go me one better. That's just a part of being at a site where there are SO MANY SMART PEOPLE, unlike some unnamed lefty sites, where they let 'em out of the playpen long enough to type up some hate.
LOL — Good one!! I knew someone would come along and go me one better. That's just a part of being at a site where there are SO MANY SMART PEOPLE. This is so unlike some unnamed lefty sites, where they let 'em out of the playpen long enough to type up some hate.
Al least, Mr. Fairey stole from a corrupt organization, the Associated Press. Their noses are, if possible, even browner than his.
Shepard, Shepard, Shepard-
Haven't you heard? It's the cover-up, not the lie, that takes you down.
Sounds like he loses the NEA grant, but he's gotta' be in line to win something from the Clinton Foundation.
Only dopes use hope. Get a life.
The problem with having minions to do all your dirty work is that minions fight amongst themselves and turn on each other, even the most obedient minions will do it.
Obama is learning this the hard way.
He never got his hands dirty. He has jokers like Fairey and the entire AP (with their halo photos) to elevate him to Godlike status. Now we see the jokers fighting and demanding credit for which joker did what dirty deed.
I am looking forward to the first audience plant coming forward (maybe they will get in a fight with another audience plant over who gets to ask the victim question, that would be classic!)
^ Quality comedy. Nice work.
Biden must have seen something in this guys work. Himself.
He gets more for standing up for his principles and not being afraid to admit his lies – moral courage at its best, isn't it? And if those particular principles are not to your liking, I am sure he has got many others.
Thank you for the link – it should be publicized! I am going to have the information referenced on http://www.chicksontheright.com
Just as Tim Geithner is qualified to be Secretary of the Treasury is not this guy now qualified to run the NEA. It's the Obama way.
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Actually, I think he's now in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Fairey is a hoodlum. Vandalizing property and calling it art because he can is absurd. No different from the guy that sits in the WH.
All hail the ManGod, Obama. May his wisdom fall upon the the land of Obamica. All shall heed and obey His commands for He is Omniscient and Ubiquitous. This is according the gospel from the Obamacles.
NOT!
I personally like the "Hope" poster.
I "hope" Obama and his crew get's voted out of office.
Now that's hope!!!!
Fairey thinks he can get money from NEA, except he is just so stupid and greedy enough to copy somebody else work. This only shows what I always suspected that liberals are just morally bankrupt and thieves.
The federal courts do not take evidence tampering, or even inadvertent evidence spoliation, lightly. Unless he gets treatment disparate from that of similarly situated litgants, he's going to be sanctioned into poverty. His lawyers say they are seeking permission to withdraw as counsel. This guy is the legal equivalent of a radioactive AIDS virus.
no "hoked on phonics" for you. you done good… A+
Fairey is hardly an "artist". He's just another con-man who ripped off Andy Worhal to exploit a trendy Black Pop Idol (Obama).
Obama was the Cabbage Patch Kid of 2008.
So Fairey is a liar. I'm sure he can justify it, and even live with it. Artists often do.
But for Fairey, there's a much more harrowing truth emerging: that he's a sold-out shill for a gaudily bad politician who also happens to be a closet fascist.
Hey buddy, "artist" — good luck living with that.
Come on. If Obama doesn't write his own books, why should Fairey paint his own pictures?
Artist Mark Vallen researched Fairey's 'art' and discovered that Fairey was nothing but a plagiarist stealing other people's work and lying about it, while masquerading himself as a 'revolutionary' artist. "…the most important falsehood concerning Fairey’s behavior is that it is motivated by some grand theory of aesthetics or weighty political philosophy – but I’m afraid the only scheme at work is the one intended to make Fairey wealthy and famous…the artist laughs all the way to the bank." People, it's clear that Fairey is THE right artist to represent Obama. Truly, in this case art is definitely imitating life.
Didn't Buffy Wicks proudly proclaim how she worked hand in hand with Shepard ??
Janet – thank you so much! That is an incredibly well-written expose of Fairey.
You know, it's so ironically fitting. Obama's official artist is a liar and a thief spouting gibberish about working for the people but in reality working only to enrich himself. Wow! In this case, art truly HAS imitated life.
But he meant well. But his aim was true. But he is an artist. But he was like balLOON boy – he was scared and tried to hide it – and was just seeking a little fame…
Hoax the media, undermine and subvert collectivism.
Almost as much fun as scamming liberals' daughters at the bars using that 'everything's relative' and related rhetoric. Works like a charm.
Whoever took the photo, it is eerily similar to the poster of Big Brother in the John Hurt version of "1984".
"was your lie just about art"
"was your lie just about art"
We could ask, "Was your art just about a lie?"
Ridiculous nitpicking on fair use.
Even if he did use somebody else's photo as a guide, his work is NOT A PHOTOGRAPH.
He didn't steal somebody else's work and put his name on it- he created a completely new piece.
If I take a photograph of Falling Water, am I gonna get sued by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Copyright has gone too far.
Saw Fairley on that other "great artist" Henry Rollins' show, talking about questioning government (though strangely enough he professed his undying support for Obama). What a joke!
It also means that he now qualifies to have his 'art' displayed in the white house. One way or another, I think his sudden, unexpected expenses will be covered.
sorry, forgot the link:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/1...
Why do you suppose everything and everyone even remotely associated with Barack Obama turns up to be tarnished, tinged or tainted? Genuinely CAUGHT! The barrage of revelations surrounding The One is almost religious…….all powerful! Makes you wonder if he is going to just spontaneously combust!
The only thing this guy really has an allegiance to is money. Now I have no problem with that, I'm a card-carrying capitalist, myself.
What is really disgusting is that he only gives lip service to liberal/marxist theories as a means to make a little fortune for himself.
And he's willing to steal another's image in order to do that. He's not even original in that!
The Obamanists will throw him under the bus before he even knows what's happened.
He served a useful purpose: getting Obama elected. Now he's just a useful idiot like Van Jones and Yosi Sargent.
Schmuck!
Great new artwork from the adoring masses in tribute to the Obamunist.. Check out :
http://www.velveetaelvis.com
A lie within a lie in honor of a lier. The ART of lying.
Just another ObaMessiah worshipper, submitting TO false images!
They also have to make sure he adores Mao, Castro or Che.
Well now, he did tell the truth when he stated that under "his cap and trade plan" energy prices would necessarily sky rocket. And that people could build coal fired power plants if they wanted to, but they would go bankrupt from the regulations, taxes and fines they would have to pay.
I believed that part.
Aw shcuks. You folks are all jealous of the Obama-ites, who are not constrained by your old tired ethics and therefore are successful. Cast them off.
Thank you for that very informative link. Fairey is a self-serving, cheating, opportunistic piece of scum. The only thing he's mastered is the 'art of rip-off'.
if by "completely new", you mean "kinda sorta, but not really very new at all", then i agree with you. if that's not what you meant, then i'm left to assume you're just another apologist for a talentless hack.
It is wonderful reading the responses here with all the intelligent people. The lack of foul language is truly refreshing.
Thank you for that compliment. I appreciate it..
You ain't wrong and you SHO' ain't lyin'…!!
Most people who say "Copyright has gone too far" have never created anything worthy of a copyright. Intellectual property is still property, hence the "property" portion of the two-word phrase.
so I wonder then, if the "socialism" joker guy is going to get sued by DC / Warner?
you know, "on the same token".
I wonder if the AP is politically motivated here.
Just another artistic straight shooter. Cut him some slack, he is different than the rest of us. He really did not "lie lie".
Isn't it interesting how when the left want something swept under the rug they announce it late Friday night'?.
Graceunderfire
And
Two Lies do not make a Truth!
syvyn11
""secret sauce! ""
How true is that!
Any one else notice how he is smiling despite the problems he(supposedly) faces?
The Senate, some years ago, removed perjury from the assembly of laws that the politically involved must answer to.
http://www.nelsonaha.com
The best liberals have is some posters. Thats about all that will ever be named after Obama. Surely no aircraft carriers or airports. Not in America anyway, maybe Kenya.
at that point, I was just winging it.
Amen
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