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A Style of Obama Poster Not Likely To Be Widely Imitated
NRO Campaign Spot ^ | March 14, 2008 | by Jim Geraghty

Posted on 03/14/2008 4:12:05 PM PDT by jdm

It's a free country, and if Barack Obama's campaign wants to make money from posters ($70 a pop!) designed by the artist Shepard Fairey, they can go right ahead. (The candidate himself thanked the artist, and said that his "images have a profound affect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign." You know, because they're put on stickers and posted all over public property.)

And I'm sure I'll be told that the artist uses Communist propaganda imagery in an ironic way, or a satirical way, or in a way of making a pro-freedom political statement that I'm too obtuse to get.

It's not even that I don't like the style of his art— I was surprised to see he did this very striking poster for the movie "Walk the Line" which became the DVD cover.

But I can't help but wonder if it wise for a campaign to use an Obama poster that seems so stylistically similar to Fairey's posters that feature Stalin and Lenin, Saddam Hussein, Stalin and his cabinet, Stalin and Lenin again, and again, and Mao, Lenin again, Stalin again, Mao again...

Like with the Che flag in the Texas office, doesn't it seem a little odd that nobody around the people making this decision took a moment to say, "uh, guys, are we sure this is the image we want to associate with our candidate?"

Paging Jonah Goldberg.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communists; fairey; fearlessleader; nobama; obama; obamatruthfile; obey; posters; ripoff; shepardfairey; starkravingsocialist
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To: jdm

The guy likes Red.


21 posted on 03/14/2008 4:51:00 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

And Reds too apparently...


22 posted on 03/14/2008 4:54:42 PM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: jdm

I don’t know much about art, but I know Lenin-era propaganda art when I see it!


23 posted on 03/14/2008 4:57:14 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: jdm

Fascist posters for a NICE fascist.


24 posted on 03/14/2008 5:09:14 PM PDT by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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25 posted on 03/14/2008 5:09:41 PM PDT by counterpunch (Kick McCain upstairs)
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To: martin_fierro

lol. Is that a liberal version of the rapture?


26 posted on 03/14/2008 5:13:40 PM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge (There's no 'F' in 'Conservative GOP Candidates'.)
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To: martin_fierro

I amazed that one got airborne. But then, that’s the power of Hope.


27 posted on 03/14/2008 5:19:01 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: jdm

My SIL, a junior in college, is taking a graphic design class. The book they are using had a section about 20th Century propaganda posters. When you see them together in a book, whether they are Soviet, Cuban, etc., you do start to see a pattern.


28 posted on 03/14/2008 5:21:36 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one recipe at a time http://www.youtube.com/Tamar1973)
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To: Corin Stormhands

29 posted on 03/14/2008 5:34:08 PM PDT by null and void (It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
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30 posted on 03/14/2008 5:40:45 PM PDT by counterpunch (Kick McCain upstairs)
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To: counterpunch
Middle-named is more on point, as we are not allowed to say “HUSSEIN”

Very good image, though...

31 posted on 03/14/2008 5:44:33 PM PDT by null and void (It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
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To: jdm
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hmm...

32 posted on 03/14/2008 5:46:42 PM PDT by rake ("more rubble, less trouble" VD Hanson)
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To: jdm

That’s seventy bucks that could be spent on the poor, but as Obama would say, the poor you have always with you,etc.


33 posted on 03/14/2008 5:49:30 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: jdm

I’m amazed the libs can’t see where their cult of personality is leading them.


34 posted on 03/14/2008 5:50:47 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: newheart
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35 posted on 03/14/2008 5:53:50 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: AndrewB

Are you in LA? These posters are everywhere ... but for the last 8 years.


36 posted on 03/14/2008 5:55:27 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: null and void

Are you aware that “Barack” is an islamic word for “blessed” in arabic?


37 posted on 03/14/2008 6:01:47 PM PDT by counterpunch (Kick McCain upstairs)
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To: martin_fierro

Is that the new lapel pin to replace the US flag?


38 posted on 03/14/2008 6:12:50 PM PDT by olezip
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To: jdm
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Change!

39 posted on 03/14/2008 6:14:01 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: null and void

40 posted on 03/14/2008 6:41:18 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (When life gives you lemons...don't forget the vodka...)
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