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Obama's On-the-Wall Endorsement ["Obey Obama"]
Washington Post ^ | May 18, 2008 | William Booth

Posted on 05/20/2008 4:04:12 PM PDT by Dajjal

All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper.... [Shepard Fairey] wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now.... The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; communismkills; election; elections; fairey; hillary; jeremiahwright; michelleobama; obama; obamatruthfile; reddiaperdoperbaby; shepardfairey; thisisyourgod; usefulidiot
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"he is playing with Mao, not endorsing Mao"

Yeah, sure! So here's another Amerikkka-hating, fund-raising "friend of Obama."

Shepard Fairey is the artist who designed the official fund-raising set of Obama : Hope / Change / Progress posters, like this one:

Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his own artwork, such as these.
See Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints



Obama has written Fairey that he admires "the political messages involved in your work."



If Obama does win in November, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy becomes his administration's "Artist Laureate." Can you imagine him as the Artistic Director for the Inauguration ceremonies?


1 posted on 05/20/2008 4:04:13 PM PDT by Dajjal
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Earlier posts about Shepard Fairey:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006110/posts
The Art of Politics ["Obey Obama"]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006109/posts
Shepard Fairey: Obey Obama [Obama's official poster-maker loves Stalin, Mao, etc.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001809/posts
Obama's Posters: Message in the Image

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985882/posts
A Style of Obama Poster Not Likely To Be Widely Imitated



2 posted on 05/20/2008 4:05:28 PM PDT by Dajjal
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To: Dajjal

A striaght up marxist artist and a straight up marxist politician. It’s obvious why the obamanation loves it.


4 posted on 05/20/2008 4:08:47 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Dajjal

What’s his name again? shepherd who?


5 posted on 05/20/2008 4:09:07 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: narses; Pyro7480; NYer; Salvation; AdmSmith; Aquinasfan; Siobhan; Maeve; XR7; SJackson; ...
Friend-of-Obama ping

(Barf alert)

6 posted on 05/20/2008 4:10:27 PM PDT by Dajjal
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Awesome video:

The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.


7 posted on 05/20/2008 4:11:13 PM PDT by cyberella
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To: Jeff Head
Shepard Fairey -- you have got to add this guy to your list!!!
8 posted on 05/20/2008 4:11:58 PM PDT by Dajjal
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To: Dajjal

Suited to the pages of Pravda, this guy may be working in the White House. Never thought I’d see the day.


9 posted on 05/20/2008 4:15:21 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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10 posted on 05/20/2008 4:15:52 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Dajjal; Jeff Head
I have a business pal (straight!) who lives in San Francisco....his name is Bruce Fairey.

We often refer to him as "TTNO" (The Tragically Named One)

11 posted on 05/20/2008 4:16:17 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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12 posted on 05/20/2008 4:16:37 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: Cicero

13 posted on 05/20/2008 4:16:55 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Dajjal

Fairey stole two concepts from the movie THEY LIVE. Both of them are subliminal messages, one is OBEY, the other is THIS IS YOUR GOD.

And that is the Obama campaign in a nutshell. They hired this red dupe to give them a campaign that could be wheatpasted in public places overnight (even in Obama’s personal letter to Shepherd, he mentioned the power of seeing one of Fairey’s stickers on a stop sign).


14 posted on 05/20/2008 4:21:54 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: Dajjal
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15 posted on 05/20/2008 4:24:53 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Parmenio
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16 posted on 05/20/2008 4:26:39 PM PDT by americanophile
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17 posted on 05/20/2008 4:27:35 PM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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Obama has a plank in his platform for artists

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/additional/Obama_FactSheet_Arts.pdf

Barack Obama: A Champion for Arts and Culture
A Platform In Support of the Arts

[excerpt]
Create an Artist Corps: Barack Obama supports the creation of an "Artist Corps" of young artists trained to work in low-income schools and their communities. Studies in Chicago have demonstrated that test scores improved faster for students enrolled in low-income schools that link arts across the curriculum than scores for students in schools lacking such programs.

I assume this government funded "Artist Corps" Obama is going to create will be the ones drawing the pictures of the Glorious People's Tractor plowing the land ....

18 posted on 05/20/2008 4:29:41 PM PDT by Dajjal
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Great parodies of Fairey at the Peoples' Cube:

http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1884
Hope, Dope, Grope, and Other Obamunist Posters
by Commissar Maksim

19 posted on 05/20/2008 4:33:06 PM PDT by Dajjal
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Fairey is having trouble on another front: the estates of some artists whose work he has been "appropriating" are not amused and see Fairey as a plagiarist.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
by Mark Vallen

20 posted on 05/20/2008 4:35:28 PM PDT by Dajjal
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