WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist
by John Nolte
WaPo: This is merely “play[ing] into a view of Bush popular among his detractors…”
This required a few passes to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks. You keep telling yourself to stop being amazed by hypocrisy and bias, but again and again someone like Philip Kennicott, a staff writer for the Washington Post, comes up with nonsense like this:
And didn’t we see George W. Bush depicted as the Joker not so long ago?
Yes, in an image by Drew Friedman published online by Vanity Fair on July 29, 2008. That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics. But the danger many of Obama’s detractors detect is more of calculating, long-standing deception, that he is quietly and secretly marshaling a socialist agenda, a view that would be better served by imagery that recalled “The Manchurian Candidate.”
A few paragraphs later the R-word is finally (and predictably) let loose and the anonymity of the artist(s) becomes an issue:
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.
Anonymity troubles HuffPoster Earl Ofari Hutchinson, as well:
As silly and loose screwed as the depiction of Obama is as a socialist Joker, this writer did not scream for the posters to be summarily yanked down and tossed in a Hitlerian banned-book bonfire. Instead, the call was simply for the individual or groups slapping the posters up to publicly ID themselves and take credit for their work. Come forth and take public pride in branding the president a jokester and a socialist. Don’t slink around at midnight, taking the guerilla graffiti artist’s route, and smear walls with the posters when cars disappear around the bend. That’s not the joker’s MO. It’s certainly not befitting someone who’s bold enough to call the president the Joker and a socialist.
And so Phase II begins: Put the pressure on to out the culprit.
Quashing a handbill that says so much with so little has proved impossible. The outrage increased “jOker’s” iconic stature and the attempt to stop its spread with a cry of “racism” not only didn’t work, it kinda backfired. But….
An individual or group can be destroyed, and all the Usual Suspects stand ready to Joe The Plumber/Carrie Prejean/Sarah Palin’s Family the artist(s) responsible for effectively turning the art-as-ideological-weapon tables. Oh, yes, they want a name…
And so, in these last remaining days of summer, as you head out to state fairs, family gatherings and townhall meetings, be sure to remind those who tsk-tsk your Obama-Joker shirt that putting “whiteface” on a black man is a-okay with the New York Times.
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Please, please please let someone in the MSM cover this topic fairly and expose the hypocrisy. is that too much to ask?
Yeah, I know it is.
Yes, will the artist please do the best thing for the collective and turn himself/herself in for re-education. Please report yourself in at flag@whitehouse.gov ASAP. Thank you in advance for your compliance with the recent repeal of the 5th amendment.
[...] about Huffington Post as of August 6, 2009 WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist – bighollywood.breitbart.com 08/06/2009 WaPo: This is merely “play[ing] into a view of Bush [...]
But the Bush-Joker did make sense, from a detractor's perspective! Bush's detractors did see the former president as an agent of chaos and anarchy. Obama's detractors, on the other hand, see the president as controlling, as desiring of a lock-step social order… which is the opposite of Heath Ledger's interpretation of the character. So, with the Obama-Joker, the image (anarachy and chaos) conflicts with the message (socialism, a type of ordered, social structure) and, overall, clashes with many conservatives' perception of Obama (controlling).
"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."
Or, it could be that Heath Ledger was the most recent Joker and still on everyone's mind. Sometimes a molehill is just a molehill.
conservative being called a racist for all things NOT racist = libbies running scared.
Kennicott's tongue must be raw from licking Obama's boots so much.
So, defenders of the man depicted as the Joker want to apply pressure so the artist will reveal himself… Hmmm, wasn't a major plot point of "The Dark Knight" the Joker applying pressure for the Batman to reveal his idenity?
I hope whoever made that picture stays hidden, because it's hilarious to watch the media go absolutely nuts not being able to crucify the artist.
Media: "So uh, who is he? We just want to talk to him…c'mon…"
Everyman Conservative: "Uh, but you all are holding baseball bats with nails in them…and pitchforks and torches."
Media: "Pssh, that's for something else. We're just curious to know who made this picture and uh, congratulate them for being so creative!"
Everyman Conservative: "It's amazing, the lack of incentive I feel to believe you."
Nothing new……………
If you oppose Obama……….
Then you a RACIST………….
I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED…………OPPOSING OBAMA THAT IS.
the left is having trouble with taking their own medicine perhaps?
to me, the spirit of the Obama-as-Joker, as well as the intent of the conservative reaction / the conserative reaction to the left's reactions… well it all amounts to a sentiment from the right of "Well if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"
So, welcome, people on the right! Welcome to the use of street art as propoganda.
Just remember: now that you are engaging in it, in fact EMBRACING it… better not complain next time we do it to you.
Well. We did see how the New Yorker was treated when the "fist bump" made the cover. And weren't they a DNC ally?
And then we did see what happened after Bob Basso's EPIC production hit the web. (Well. No. My guess is that Bin Laden would be easier to spot these days.)
And now they want the original artist of Obama Joker to expose himself/herself? Why? Who would expose their family to Rahm and the blood and venom that spew from his every orifice.
The one lesson Rahm and Obama seem to have trouble learning? Thou Dost Protest Too Much!
we agree and accept this determination. Street art is just that- art; and as long as you are not defacing pivate property (tagging) it represents voices crying to be heard-
and THAT's America!
"But the danger many of Obama’s detractors detect is more of calculating, long-standing deception, that he is quietly and secretly marshaling a socialist agenda, a view that would be better served by imagery that recalled 'The Manchurian Candidate.'"
Not really. In the Manchurian Candidate, the public figure was a robot whose strings were pulled by communists. The McCarthy standin wasn't a calculated deceiver. He was a dupe.
The thing about Obama is he is motivated by socialism, just like the Joker was motivated by chaos or whatever, and instead of having some master plan for taking over the world, he's throwing every socialist scheme up against the wall to see what sticks. Which leads to chaos, because order (or the only sort of "order" anyone but the ruling class wants) in the economic world is represented by the free market.
"An individual or group can be destroyed, and all the Usual Suspects stand ready to Joe The Plumber/Carrie Prejean/Sarah Palin’s Family the artist(s) responsible for effectively turning the art-as-ideological-weapon tables. Oh, yes, they want a name…"
Hey, I've got your names right here moonbats. *Shows middle finger salute*
It's too late…you can't stuff the genie back in the bottle now. ➔ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk04-yi4HT0
Not Over.
Mr Nolte can be forgiven his incredulity…
However this should come as no surprise to anyone. For, as we have been saying for some time Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated.
Period.
So forget any fancy of fairness or equanimity. These folk have the power and intend to use it, public be damned…
I'm still trying to figure out how it is racist? I mean that in a literal, not a politically correct sense. I know the answer, and that is that any dissent towards the great and messianic Obama will be labeled as racist. You don't think the Dems nominated this guy with that in mind?
Actually the Joker in "The Dark Knight" is extremely controlling. In the scene with Dent "Two-Face" in the hospital room, the Joker says he is a dog chasing a car, he doesn't have a plan, but that is as much a lie as how he got the scars. His escape from the jail was an elaborate plan. Same as the hostages and clowns in the tower. And ferry standoff. And the corruption of Dent. Or the attempt to corrupt all of Gotham. Just because he says it, doesn't make it so. Just like Pres Obama saying he doesn't prefer single payer health insurance, he won't have lobbyists in his administration, transparency, etc. THAT's why the slogan "socialism" is appropriate. He says isn't, but……
Has it not occured to you that Obama's trying to control everything leads to chaos? There's this big gap between socialism in practice and in theory. The former is never able to synthesize the efficiency that comes naturally.
I know Heath Ledger intentional aimed at chaos whereas Obama would be reaching it accidentally. But that's a small distinction. Plus, The Dark Night is a little muddled on the issue, in my opinion. The Joker says he doesn't like people with plans, but he has his own plans. Quite elaborate plans, I'd say. And when things don't go his way, as with the prisoner's dilemma, he ignores chaos and tries to bring about his own preordained end.
should we pull an "I am Sparticus"?
if hundreds of thousands of people turn them selves in as the poster maker what would hapen?
"I mean that in a literal, not a politically correct sense."
All that I can come up with is that white face and a wide smile somehow invokes memories of minstrel shows. Or is that still in a politically correct sense? It makes a little more sense than the most recent Joker being "urban," urban to white people meaning innercity minorities, who in turn invoke images of riots. But not much.
Bottom line is that the Joker is a clown, and clowns wear white make-up and have big, red smiles. But explaining this to outraged liberals is useless. They'll ask why, then, choose to compare Obama to a clown, as opposed to any other recent movie villain. Lord Voltemort, for instance. Clearly, the Joker was chosen because his look resembles minstrel shows. Not because The Dark Night was a good movie and the Joker was and always has been a cool character.
Unless of course you say anything "fishy" (whatever that means) about Obamacare….
That particular form of expression is apparently a no-no to this administration.
Ask "Law Enforcement." Most likely 15 to 20 with no time off for good behavior. Because that's what their Masters tell them we need. And they bow and scrape and then do whatever they're damn well told. Just like the German police under the Nazis. Their Leaders said it was legal, so they took care of the Jews. Welcome to Obamacare 2009! Sorry, old geezers. You didn't vote for Osama, so there is no medical treatment for you. Those fine Blacks from Philadelphia will be by to see you shortly. Don't mind their uniforms and weapons. Holder says they're fine people. It's wrong for you to act stupidly. After all, this is a teachable moment!
I am glad that someone is not kowtowing to the hate campaign of threats by liberals to squash dissent and truthtelling about obama
this is the kind of thing that must be used to maintain the American way of life
Real Americans can not rely on their elected politicians to do it – to many colin powells, spectre, collins, etc
way to go anon obama artist – America appreciates your work
Race is never far from the left's collective minds. So they assume it's never far from everyone's collective minds. In calling things racist, they often reveal their own latent prejudice, if not out right racism.
"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"
Identified with the '70s, perhaps, but not with black people. I don't remember runny make-up being part of popular black fashion. Has this guy never heared of Punk? Heath Ledger's was a punk Joker, and punk music is associated with white people. I thought liberals were supposed to be hip. Why do I have to explain this stuff to them?
well, then you can say it on an anonymous poster and drive 'the man' nuts, eh?
Yes, it is.
Sure we know who produced the Bush-as-Joker. Of course all he had to put up with was praise from his fellow liberals. What kind of 24/7 fire storm would the Obummer-as-Joker artist have to face? I hope we never find out.
Sure if that's the way everyone communicated with each other. It's the stuff people over-hear or read in an innocuous email that gets them in trouble with the thought police.
The creator of this poster should remain anonymous lest he be "Prejeaned"…
What you did not like those fine young men in a Black Panther uniform at the polling place at election time? Those night sticks were there to point the way thats all.
[...] Leave it to some journo-hack to say the posters are ‘RACIST’!!! OMG! I thought we were all in a post-racial society with Obama’s election right up until his beer drinking buddy, Henry Louis Gates, reminded us otherwise. [...]
You couldn't be more wrong.
It's BLACKFACE that is considered racist, NOT whiteface. If the Joker had been wearing blackface you might have a point….
–"Instead, the call was simply for the individual or groups slapping the posters up to publicly ID themselves and take credit for their work. Come forth and take public pride in branding the president a jokester and a socialist. "–
Why? So you can audit the artist fifty times and give him a public pilloring a la Joe the Plumber??
Oh, HELL no!!!! Every superhero protects his mundane identity!!!
I designed the Obama poster. Just kidding! But don't I wish. The thing about being called a racist over and over and over is that it begins to lose its sting. The libs and "state-run media" use it so much that it seems that the race card is their ONLY card.
"It's all part of the plan."
When a black Republican is portrayed as a clown or a Republican president as a vampire, the media, et al, does not care, because "it's all part of the plan." But if one, little ol' black Democrat president is put in joker makeup, everyone loses their minds.
Dang Tru thats so dead on its scary. The thing about Jack Napier (aka) The Joker is no one knows where he came from, for every story he tells about himself , he contradicts it with another. Does this sound familiar? What we know about Obama is what he has said himself. He fashioned a narrative and then has contradicted it from time to time. This has nothing to do with the idiotic birther movement. Guys he was born in Honolulu, nothing to see there. Stop distracting yourselves. It has everything to do with the contradictions in his books and what he has said all through out the elections. He isn't who he presents himself to be and he isn't the person we are told he is. And as far as his control leading to chaos yes, it has. He first threatens people with this health care crap (yeah he said he would do this and you people who are now regretting the vote you made were told) and then when people start saying oh no no no he ridicules and threatens them. This then leads to more chaos.
You are the Lone Ranger then
Accordind to the MSM everyone loves this march/sprint to Socialism
/sarc
To Yeah:
It wasn't Obama's boots that he was licking…..
Read the Post article, found it on the drudge. My impression was that I was reading an article by some spoiled child. It was only a matter of time before the racist card was pulled. It is like watching a one trick pony.
Something to consider. Pt 1
Stop focusing on the Joker's so called anarchy. He could have been calling for socialism, facism, marxism, UFO-ology, new age crystalism, it doesn't matter. His goal was to destroy the existing order and reshape it into his vision.
Think in terms of methods. Money at best was just a tool. A means to an ends that did not hold true value to him. Does everyone remember the O's dismissive response to the stock market collapse? Americans watched in horror as life savings went up in smoke, but the ever sophisticated One blithly responded he "was not concerned with the ups and downs of the market". Vast unsupportable deficits that will destroy our republic. A small price to pay for "social justice". Are these not the exact scenes symbolized by the burning pile of money?
Pt 2
And how did he treat the "little people" in his plans? He lied, manipulated, and played them against each other to advance his plans. Remember the man he claimed to heal, but whom he turned into a human bahm? What was O's goal of rallying all those people around the cry of change? Only now are some realizing how they have been used. The Joker created crises to distract his opponents or to control their actions. Remember Rahm's favorite saying about crises. The bank bail out? The stimulus? The health care bill?
Watch the movie. Watch the actions. Throughout the movie, we do not see the Joker's true face. Instead he wears a mask that expresses the mind beneath. Today, we are constantly being shown Obama's mask of calm soothing demeanor, but yet are never shown the mind lurking below. This poster pulls away that mask and shows us the face that actually matches the thoughts beneath.
There's an interesting idea.
We should all take credit for the poster!
Why doesnt the liberal ever say that ODAMA is half white……is black the color of the month, I can see his mother turning in her grave now , no credit for bring the messiah into the world to bring the choosen people (democRATS) to the promise land "DC"
This is just another reason why I canceled my paper subscription to WaPo a year ago. They still call about once a month with an offer, but I respond the same way every time, "I wouldn't wipe my a** with that rag."
The Washington Post states that "urban" means black. That, my friends, is severely racist and ignorant.
Urban means city, (as in the biblical city of Ur). And I believe Obama grew up on the beaches of Hawaii but the Liberals associate him with the word "urban" because of the color of his skin.
Now they're accusing the artist of using "Urban make-up." WTF is urban make-up? The Jack Nicholson version was 20 years ago. Why would the artist use that one?
If the fellow who did 'jOker' outs him/herself, there's a chance that all of those tolerant, peace loving, artsy types just might do something hurtful to the individual that so defaced their president. As shameful as that sounds, this is the party of union thugs.
don't you think he knows it? This guy's experience would make Mark Furhman's ordeal look like nursery school… expect more 'guerilla theater' in the coming weeks…
Here's another example of how all this applies to Batman. The Joker wanted Batman to take off his mask and killed people to make him do it. I wonder how far those tolerant liberals will go to get this artist to take off his mask??
Don't do it man!! Don't give in to the bad guys!!!!
I sure hope he does know it.
Can't wait for a follow-up!!
And I thought the Bush/Joker picture was just an incredibly accurate portrait of Keith Richards…
"What are we going to get?"
more ammo…..
I am not racist, I just hate Obama because he is a radical, muslim-friendly socialist!
"Instead, the call was simply for the individual or groups slapping the posters up to publicly ID themselves and take credit for their work."
I admit it… I am Spartacus.
Fellow Citizens: Join me on the roof top this evening, and every subsequent evening, to shout "God Is Great!" until The Joker is driven from office.
Someone should write the Obama snitch line at Flag@WhiteHouse.gov and complain.
Wow, very well said….
I AM SPARTACUS!!!!!!
Keith Richards is much more pale….
I think Philip Kennicott is the real Joker. Clearly he hasn't won many medals for his debating skills.
I'm not racist, i hate everybody equally. The image is nothing more than symbolism of our currently president. It has nothing to do with race. Obama is just as much white as he is black and i personally don't care what race he is. He is however an untrust worthy individual.
"Unless of course you say anything "fishy" (whatever that means) about Obamacare…."
You ain't kidding with that one. His and the Democrats reaction to the public outcry has been bizarre on an epic scale. In particular, Obama's response to naysayers has been almost irrational. I really think this guy could become "unhinged" in the face of a real criticism……He's one scary Liberal………….
Hank_Scorpio
"Unless of course you say anything "fishy" (whatever that means) about Obamacare…."
You ain't kidding with that one. His and the Democrats reaction to the public outcry has been bizarre on an epic scale. In particular, Obama's response to naysayers has been almost irrational. I really think this guy could become "unhinged" in the face of a real criticism……He's one scary Liberal………….
I would love to see him completely lose his mind during a press conference. Just a few well-placed questions on his healthcare disaster would do the trick…
I have information that the Obama/Joker poster is the work of 4chan.
NO ONE can take on 4chan and hope to win. Anonymous is almighty.
Thanks, I try. Now if I can come up with the guts to put up some posters around my town.
Heh heh.
We didn't whine much about it for the past eight years. What makes you think that we'll start now?
I was thinking that myself…..
Wow, if that's true then this administration is gonna have it's hands full.
From Mr. Kennicott's Post article:
"That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics."
Mr. Kennicott, try and spread out your manure a little just a little in an effort to mask its idiocy. If Bush was "quick on the draw" he was not "unpredictable".
How is having a dissenting (one that differs from the administration) racist.
Why is it liberal media does not show all the portrayals of bush.
Chevy Chase lampooned Ford (on television week after week) – but this is racist…
NO OBAMA(nation) is a socialist/marxist – the joker is what he is because he said one thing and did another…
"the boss told me to get rid of him whe he was done so we wouldn't have to split the loot."
"Funny he said the same thing to me…"
That's from the movie – it's not so funny now that it's real life and the Demorats are in running up ridiculous tabs on the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BACKS…
No . . . I'M SPARTACUS!!!
So an acceptable likening would be to Hitler or Stalin? Funny that the MSM hadn't any heartburn over the endless references to Bushitler.
BTW – Bush post 9-11 was the one who kept this country from spiraling into panic, chaos and anarchy. I know. we are not supposed to talk about that.
You know what chaos and anarchy is – it is when the ordinary citizens decide that the watchman, thieving, freedom robbing government hacks are not to be suffered any longer.
The guillotine was invented during the French Revolution.
Ok, stop it–I made the Dear Leader-As-Joker poster.
The differences between The Joker in the movies and comics and the "joker "who sits in the White House are trivial and insignificant and more a matter of style than anything that negates the brilliance of the poster. Both The Joker and "Il Dufe" believe in initiating force to use their ends. One's an outlaw, who uses illegal force; the other is a "liberal fascist" who uses legal force. (As far as I know: a constitutional scholar might disagree.) Both like to use coercion to reshape society according to their own respective visions of what society should be like. In The Joker's case, that's chaos; in "Il Dufe's" case, that's a planned society–which as Von Mises showed, leads to "planned chaos."
Subject: Obama Socialism Joker Face Desktop Image for your PC
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/04/article...
Click above "Obama Socialism Joker Face" image URL and make it your desktop image on your PC.
After saving image (remember the folder you saved it in), put your cursor on your desktop and "right-click". Choose "Properties". Click "Desktop" tab. Click "Browse". Choose Obama image from location you saved it in. Choose "Center" Position. Click "Apply". Click "OK".
Hopefully without the iconic homoerotic imagery of Tony Curtis in a short toga, though.
The MSM lapdogs won't ask those questions because they're afraid that is exactly what will happen.
That's what I was thinking. I remember seeing the Bush/Joker image and just thinking, "Well, that's really tacky", then going on with my day.
My wife's reaction was that it probably hurt Laura's feelings to see her husband treated like that.
Neither one of us spent any time editorializing about it or calling liberals names. Well, new names, anyway.
Just pray you never need a cardiac catheterization. There'll be a "list" all right…
LOL. And they keep calling? I guess they don't keep a "list", anyway.
I doubt it's true, insofar as 4Chan is divided pretty much evenly along political lines. Dubya got a lot of s__t from them, but so does Obama. I don't know that they'd create a poster like this, or plan a widespread distribution thereof. I'm sure there are a large proportion of Anonymous who voted for Obama, although many of them probably regret it by now.
Either way, if the current leadership in Washington makes an assault on free speech that's any less subtle than those that have already been tried, I guarantee these 'underculture' sites like 4Chan will absolutely explode with rage. When you come right down to it, their allegiance is not to any political party but to a very libertarian cause, namely: "No corporation nor government nor establishment of religion, nor any other faceless entity, has the right to order me around at will, or to threaten retribution if I refuse their demands." And they fight back against such things by becoming a faceless entity in their own right, which protects them from being individually singled out for retribution — it's the old 'none of us is as strong as all of us' routine.
Hmmm…interesting. I wonder what the MSM would do with an "ObamaHitler" image? Obama wearing a brown shirt with a little Charlie Chaplin mustache. Would that somehow also be "racist"?
Anyone out there with Photoshop need a project for this weekend?
I really don't want that thing staring back at me from my computer screen.
He's already there almost every time I turn on the T.V.
Settle down, everyone. It was the one-armed man!
I do have a long plane ride coming up…..
I do have a long plane ride coming up. I'll need something to do to keep myself occupied.
Revealing themselves would be the fair and gentlemanly thing for the creator of the Dear Leader-as-Joker poster to do. It would show that libertarians and conservatives are open, tolerant, fair-minded, and willing to reach across the political aisle to open an honest dialogue. Taking credit for the Joker poster would show that we on the right play by the rules, and will not dirty our hands, unlike our opponents in the Democratic Party.
Screw all that. The struggle against the Dear Leader is not a chivalrous contest, something the oppostion understands. All who oppose the Dear Leader and His policies need to understand that, and act accordingly. (John McCain never did.) Putting up anonymous posters undercutting the quasi-dive image of the Dear Leader is perfectly acceptable, and coming forward to be pilloried and destroyed in the name of some out-dated qualms about fairness is foolish. I urge everyone on here to come up with their own anonymous "guerilla art". It may not be as brilliant as the Joker poster, but it will do its part to undermine the Dear Leader.
I think there's a good point made in this article as to why Obama critics like to remain anonymous. These guys on the left are scary! They really, really have a lot of hate inside themselves, and it shows more than ever. I mean, who'd have thought that people who advocated abortion on demand could be so bloodthirsty! Oh, wait…
[...] Astroturf campaign? and Yes, they are talking about a government takeover of health care Jim Nolte: WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist Political Derby: The Arlen Specter spectacular and Protest a health care town hall; more scenes [...]
[...] Ed Driscoll: Why So Serious? Truth Bucket: It’s Bad for Obama When… Jim Nolte, Big Hollywood: WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist Legal Insurrection: Obligatorily Snarky Obama Joker Poster Post and Do Unto Obama As Obama Did Unto [...]
Oooh! Good point my man! Good point.
poppycock.
trying snuff out opposition – without letting their arguments be heard – only fans the flames and is garaunteed to backfire. Obama's focus on the "fishy" stuff is strickly to "know thy enemy" and come to the table with informed responses.
[...] John Nolte, Big Hollywood: ‘jOker’: When the Left’s Scared They Scream ‘Racist’ and WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist Clinging to G & G: Creepy Obama poster has a clear intent Big Hollywood: When is [...]
better not complain next time we do it to you.
Next time? The left has been pulling this for the past 8 years and even after Obama and a Democratic majority got elected they still didn't stop and then the White House and Congress piled on. Now someone hits them back with a play out of their own book and they scream like 2 year olds. So please spare me your warning, liberals will never stop being thin skinned sanctimonious hypocrites, it's what they are and we expect it.
One poster appears on the dirty strut of a single LA freeway – and the Left explodes in hate and rage, screaming that they want the guy responsible.
Geesh, guys, chill out. You'd think this was a cartoon of Allah.
I wonder how they would respond to a billboard.
CogNutCase, as always, you play the role of braindead full to the utmost degree. In case you missed it DUMBARSE, you are complaining. YOUR PARTY IS COMPLAINING. Your HYPOCRACY is showing, and no sign of the Bush Joker thing ever making it remotely this far into the news. So please, SHUT THE HELL up anc crawl back into your slimy hole.
Apparently the black president cant handle dissent and is angry at others for pointing out his nakedness and his obvious FLAMING SOCIALISM.
Also, kids these days might not even be aware of Nicholson's Joker. It came out in 1989.
Agreed. I had never thought of that approach until I read this. Rule #1 of the Leftist playbook is: When you can't defeat the statement, defeat the author. If the author is unknown, the Leftists don't know what to do.
No it's not. He's an idiot. So are you.
That's what Nixon said when he sent troops out to record what protesters were saying… the supreme court ruled that when the government seeks to record and catalogue an individual's dissent it is a violation of free speech because it intimidates and makes them fearful about what the government might do… it is illegal to do this.
"Obama's focus on the "fishy" stuff is strickly to "know thy enemy" and come to the table with informed responses"
Is this some "other" Obama that your speaking of? I seem to remember Barry being "called out" many times as a Senator, and before that, for being ill prepared on a topic. I've only been watching him for the past 10 years but maybe you know something I don't? If we are talking about his ability to deflect attention from his lack of knowledge on a subject than we're on the same page. Other than that he pretty much wings it…………
"Geesh, guys, chill out. You'd think this was a cartoon of Allah."
…Pretty close
It was a daily occurrence from the left on Bush. And compared to this "Little" episode, they were going for the throat. There was no subtlety to it. Some of the most vicious and vile things came from the compassionate class towards Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Petraeus, Gonzales, Palin (still to this day). So this one little poster has them sharpening their knives. Let 'em bring it.
I'll gladly take credit if it will give me a wider public forum to pridfully state that we have elected an America-values hating, communist mentored, (Frank Marshall Davis), racist black power supporter, a thief that has stolen investors property and given it to the thieves and cronies in the unions, contrary to Constitutional and contract law. An inexperienced fraud that is embarrassed by Americas greatness, who the Russians had so little respect for, they would not shake his hand PUBLICLY and ON CAMERA! A one world government stooge, with a need to disarm unilaterally and apologize for ever existing to tinpot dictators and socialist thugs around the world. I did it, I did it, where do I go to face this disgrace? Who else do I need to tell? Spread my blog, you'll see how proud I am, and everything I do is signed. I take great pride in the truth, unlike the deadly liar in the white house, making plans to kill our parents. Come and get me, cowards.
Ron Reale__realetybytes@yahoo.com__realetybytes.townhall.com
"Some of the most vicious and vile things came from the compassionate class towards Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Petraeus, Gonzales, Palin (still to this day)."
I say: good. Although really, I suppose it depends on what you mean. Kids are off limits.
But calling Sarah Palin a quitter? that one will never tire. And frankly, I don't even see how its mean or nasty. its quite a reasonable criticism, actually.
I'll gladly take credit if it will give me a wider public forum to pridfully state that we have elected an America-values hating, communist mentored, (Frank Marshall Davis), racist black power supporter, a thief that has stolen investors property and given it to the thieves and cronies in the unions, contrary to Constitutional and contract law. An inexperienced fraud that is embarrassed by Americas greatness, who the Russians had so little respect for, they would not shake his hand PUBLICLY and ON CAMERA! A one world government stooge, with a need to disarm unilaterally and apologize for ever existing to tinpot dictators and socialist thugs around the world. I did it, I did it, where do I go to face this disgrace? Who else do I need to tell? Spread my blog, you'll see how proud I am, and everything I do is signed. I take great pride in the truth, unlike the deadly liar in the white house, making plans to kill our parents. Come and get me, cowards.
Ron Reale
realetybytes@yahoo.com
realetybytes.townhall.com
f u dumbass. Show me a party representative complaining? the la times or la weekly doesn't qualify.
Looks like you could use a new icon. I dare you…
The Joker wanted to destroy the existing order and remake it in his own image. So does Obama. End of story. He's the joker. No more ananlysis required.
Do it!
C'mon Hank, stop thinkin'…start doin'…the time is right!
Oh yeah, Kennicott is right. The Joker poster was wrong! A much more timely and relevant Manchurian Candidate reference would have been so much better.
How absurd! And how absurd for PK and anyone else to make the race case out of something that is so basic and simple — and beautiful, by the way — because of that simplicity. This is a geat piece of political parody using an instantly recognizable — and germaine — character. It doesn't require a master's thesis or WP editorial to figure out and appreciate.
Now, Kennicott, get back to work on that piece you promised regarding the Hey Jude lyrics.
I could only wish that the gov of my state, Michigan, would have quit a long time ago. Her ratings would actually have gone up like 70 pnts and probably the state would be far better off. Funny thing, didn't Obama try to name her, Granholm, as his cheif economic advisor? Pretty scarry huh?
You couldn't be more correct. And in addition to any abuse the creator of the poster would take, and you better believe he would take a ton of it, the focus of the story would be shifted by the MSM from Obama to the poster's creator.
And unless the creator is Mother Theresa, the daily public bleeding he or she would take would make the Sarah Palin/Joe The Plumber assault seem like a Sunday walk in the park.
I Am Spartacus!
This is what happens when you elect a black president– you aren't allowed to criticize him.
Are you taking note, America?
While your post does have some validity as far as Obama is concerned, how on earth can you maintain that Bush stood for chaos? If anything, Bush stood for an iron fist, at least in the eyes of his detractors. While I heartily disagree with such a view, it makes a lot more sense than the notion that Bush stood for anarchy. For eight years, we heard about the tyranny, the dictatorship, the liberty-crushing regime that his administration had become, and, right or wrong, that's a very different animal from textbook anarchy. I have been around plenty of Bush-haters, even some radical ones, and at no time did I hear them complain about how Bush didn't pay attention to enforcing order; far from it. They didn't see his "imposition of order" as a good thing, but they did see it as such. The Post is just trying to rewrite history here. As for socialism being an ordered, social structure, read about the Soviet Union sometime and you'll see just how much chaos and terror were a part of its rule.
Thanks, Goebbels.
Oh no, you're absolutely right; this one anonymous poster makes up for the past eight years. When massive crowds have publicly burned Obama in effigy, second-rate late night hosts have mocked him and his family, Hollywood big shots have called him every name under the sun, and Time and Newsweek have run editions calling him the worst president ever and defacing his face, and all this for the length of his presidency and beyond, then we'll call it even. Like I've said before, it's not as if we're giving you anything worse than what you deserve.
I still have yet to see one up here in L.A. (I live near the La Brea tar Pits) Where have folks been seeing them put up publicly?
Ve haf vays to make you talk.
I couldn't agree more. Well said!
Dissent is the Highest form of Patriotism unless you do not agree 100% with this administration. We must go along with One party rule or be turned into the Whitehouse truth squad. I cannot wait for the bill that is passed that we all must serve the government. Transform America, the picture is becoming much clearer now. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death – Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
indeed.
although in fairness, and in fact, as a complement to America's leadership… this capability for expression is found in many places around the world.
I'm still trying to figure out how it is racist? I mean that in a literal, not a politically correct sense. I know the answer, and that is that any dissent towards the great and messianic Obama will be labeled as racist. You don't think the Dems nominated this guy with that in mind? It sure wasn't for his lengthy record of experience.
If they made him look like Sammy Davis, Jr., they'd be screaming that someone made him look like a black man. No common sense or rationality to it. But they do know that when the "R" word is thrown out, it usually shuts down debate. Who didn't see that one coming?
Racist? Racist? Why Soooooooooooooooooo Serioussssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, so much for trying to seem superior and reasonable. Did someone strike a nerve there?
This commenter is bitter hate-filled person. You leftists would still persist in AD HOMINEN attacks even if the right did not attack your intellect and reasoning skills. Leftists aren't moved by reason and logic. They are moved by EMOTIVISM only. They do try to mask their emotional premises with so-called reasoning, but the premises are always flawed.
People here who see things differently from you are not embracing anything that the left usually does: attack people personally and not engage in reasoned, logical debate.
You called Bush an idiot because he couldn't speak well. Well, as the Noam Chomsky pointed out in his linguistic treatises there is a difference in linguistic competence and performance. All native speakers of a language are competent in their language but may not perform perfectly in their language. Bush had a problem with performance not competence.
Bush and Kerry went to Yale University and Bush outperformed him in grades, yet you refuse to call Kerry an idiot. Bush even went to Harvard Business School, but you still persist on calling him an idiot, even though there was no proof. This is called ad hominen attacks.
We have proof that Obama is a SOCIALIST. We have his words and his deeds. This is not an ad hominen attack.
This poster is not an ad hominen attack on Obama. It is telling the truth about his political and economic beliefs and his political economic beliefs are NOT for FREE MARKET CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM. Socialism is anti-freedom.
The people here who are against Obama are not attacking him personally. They do not like his policies. His policies are disastrous and dangerous.
Not so amazing, what mainstream media outlet didn't sell their integrity to shout the praises of Obamao?
I think the clever gamble and gambit here for the left is that the "right wing" won't be as effective and determined to engage in "street level" art or "guerilla tacticts" to (legally) spread their/our message, right Cog? You used to hear it all the time, the conservatives are dry, boring sticks in the mud, the liberals are from the *creative class*…consevatives are obsessed with $$$, liberals are "altruistic"…so when a *rapier sharp* piece of street art emerges poking the liberal left's most sacred cow ever, an ultra lefty "black" president with a clear socialist agenda, well it's "unacceptable" to criticize him…I think the more the Democrat Party and leftist media crys the less *gravitas* they have and more pathetic they become. Bush was excoriated by the media and he keep at work and stayed the course and didn't dignify the ugly lies…
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I think these two narcissists will resort to extrodinary measures to get back on message and keep on message and secure a second term. We live in extrodinary times and I wouldn't rule ANY activity out that maintains and increases these two power wise and in personal wealth. Harry Truman left office with little more than he walked into it and took a regular commercial train back to Moussuri..these GulfStream/limo liberals will be triple digit millionaires when they're done…how many bodies of *associates* and *former associates* will be found in Fort Marcy Park?
Ha! That's good.
Agreed. The so-called honorable approach doesn't always work. Hell, they used to consider the use of submarines underhanded and now look: every country that can afford 'em has 'em.
The time for games is over. It's time to get dirty.
The left want a fight? Well now they've got one, and when we fight, we do it with one purpose–to win.
A salute to you, Bold and Noble Anonymous Artist! Well done!
I sent an email to that address. I told them that if they can't keep track of all the "disinformation", tough. If it's that important, try harder. We don't work for you, you work for us so unless you're going to pay people to do this, don't expect anything.
Cog, do you really think the government has the right to ask citizens to work for them like this? And only so they can "know their enemy"? Since when did healthcare skeptics become the "enemy"?
You know, I always try to be all about forgiveness and not sinking to the level of the enemy, but…I can't help but say "RIGHT ON!"
Call me a paranoid conspiracist (or Charlie Sheen), but I can't help but think of "Wag the Dog" and Clinton's Politically Convenient AirStrikes of 1998. I'd bet this is a sham and a con from the NY Times/CNN crowd targeted at the middle-of-the-road demographic, the part of the voting block that's maybe feeling some voters' regret right about now. The MSM scream that this is racist, unearned criticism and SCREAM LOUD about it at a point when the popularity of the Democrat in the White House is approaching a notable low-point. It's not about putting a black man in whiteface; it's about putting a racist-face on anyone who thinks the President, who happens to be black, isn't doing a good job.
"I'm not sure about 'bama any more."
"Huh, you sound like those f–king crackers who put that poster."
"No, of course not, I'm not like that. And y'know, when I think about it, 'bama's doing a fine job, and if CNN pollsters call me, that's what I'll tell 'em."
Let's look at it this way. It's driving the smarmy liberals batsh!t. That alone is worth the price of admission. And it wasn't at their usual level of wishing someone dead – like they did of Bush or Palin. Just some simple photoshop.
That is a bunch of crap, I don't recall anyone saying Bush represented chaos and anarchy.
This was the grand plan:
1. There was an elaborate plot to steal the 2000 Presidential election, from the noble innocent Al Gore and his honest campign manager, Richard Daley. (They are running ads today claiming the Tea party people are part of the same secret nationwide organization.)
2. The War on Oil was a plot that was arranged before Bush took office.
3. The World Trade Centers was blown up in the most elaborate plot in history. Pre-wiring the buildings for a controlled explosion, while duping terrorists into hijacking planes and flying them into the buildings, all done in front of the entire world. Also, apparently fabrciating a fake plane flying into the Pentagon.
4. An organized plan to steal everyone's civil rights, right down to listening to their phone calls and watching their library selections.
Pandax wrote about five hours ago:
"Better not complain next time we do it to you. Next time? The left has been pulling this for the past 8 years and even after Obama and a Democratic majority got elected they still didn't stop … "
The Dems invented this crap decades ago. I was there at the time they perfected it in the '60s and helped stoke the fire — a fact for which I am truly repentant today. I grew up and finally saw the light.
My Dem friends, meanwhile, didn't care about shedding light on problems and their solutions. In their tool box, they carried matches and the most flammable accelerants they could lay their hands on. Their goal, then and now, was to set fires, leverage those fires to win elections, then translate those wins into power they could wield to force their ideology on the rest of us.
All one needs do to fully appreciate this picture is to never lose sight of the way the Dems demagogued the Iraq war issue in order to win congressional elections in 2006 and to help them win the WH in 2008. Secondly, never forget the words of Rahm Emmanuel: "Don't ever waste a crisis."
CogNutCase, as always, you play the role of braindead fool to the utmost degree. In case you missed it DUMBARSE, you are complaining. YOUR PARTY IS COMPLAINING. Your HYPOCRACY is showing, and no sign of the Bush Joker thing ever making it remotely this far into the news. So please, SHUT THE HELL up and crawl back into your slimy hole.
no no no. go read the news wire. The White House asked *the public* to report fishy information. that's it. There are no "troops" involved here. There are no government agents and wiretaps. Get over it.
from the White House blog:
""There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov," the blog says."
ahh, but I can tell you are really a smart one.
Wishing Bush dead, comparing him to a Nazi, Rice as Aunt Jemimah, Petraeus as a liar? I mean the list could go on. It was daily and relentless. Palin quit for good reasons and you don't have to like it. Her constituents don't seem to mind that much either. She still has good polling numbers in Alaska. If she were the Obama administration, she'd be asking your neighbors to rat on you. And he seems to be VERY thin skinned. From the looks of it, he couldn't take 1/10th of what she's had to put up with.
Then I hope the gloves are off and nothing is off limits for the Messiah. I agree his kids are though. The press did go after Bush's kids though. So it comes down to if you have an R behind your name, you're free game and so's your family. Look at what the NYT did to McCain's family? Dug up dirt on them also. Sorry to say, but if you're a Democrat, you've got a free ride.
"This is the 'Obama as Joker' image created by an unknown artist. Would that artist please identify his or herself, please?" *silence* "The artist in question has learned the value of not being seen."
"Who made this piece of art?"
"No one of consequence."
"We must know!"
"Get used to disappointment."
"Ah, so you want his actual name? Interesting notebook you have, by the way. What exactly does 'Death Note' mean, anyway?"
(…not my favorite anime. It could have easily ended at episode 7 or so if a certain minor character had been smart enough to have two fake IDs on her.)
"I'm Brian and so is my wife!"
Surely (CgntvDssdnt) you are being facitious — or just stirring the pot with your Palin reference. The Palin "pile on" has nothing to do with labeling her a quitter. That's absolutely fair game for her critics.
What I object to and I think anyone who has an ounce of fairness in them objects to, is that the vicious comments about her and her family, the outright lies and distortions are unforgivable. I believe anyone who asserts otherwise can't be concerned about either their crediibility or their integrity as a serious participant in public discourse.
And you don't have to be a Republican wing nut to have such beliefs. I happen to be a lifelong Dem, but I'll be damned if I'll get down in the gutter and deal in the kind of dishonesty and vulgarity so many are willing to engage in today — on the right and on the left.
ROFL!!!!! Now I have to watch that film today….
Did you just say "poppycock"???
And since when are you in Obama's mind?
I tell you who did those posters, "Earl": it was I, El Gordo. So what are you going to do about it?
Stirring the pot is all he ever does.
I AM SPARTACUS!!!
Absolutely brilliant!
robobbob, well said!
Recommendation: If the elected of Congress won't come out and debate…these would make very nice stickers for their office front doors…
I am an expert with Photoshop…
don't be so sure of that, friend- SEIU thugs are out there beating up dissenters- and he is from Cook County after all.
Unfortunately, we know too much about these tactics…
Conservative Punk set it up right:
A group of four pictures on the front of the shirt, like Andy Warhol. On the back, the money line:
"WHY SO SOCIALIST?"
And with that, the Dali Bama's dream died…
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