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Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles
Newsbusters ^ | August 1, 2009 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 08/01/2009 5:41:49 PM PDT by Baladas

Have you seen this poster?

Apparently, it's beginning to appear in odd places in Los Angeles, but nobody seems to know who's responsible for it.

Radio host Tammy Bruce posted some pictures of this odd creation at her blog Saturday morning (h/t Pamela Geller) leading me to investigate further.

At this point, all I could find on the subject was an April 25 article from Bedlam Magazine:

A poster of Barack Obama in Heath Ledger-style Joker make-up with the legend 'Socialism' beneath it has been popping up recently on surfaces around L.A. It does not appear to be in the same category as the many benign take-offs on the Shepard Fairey 'Hope' poster, such as the one by Australian James Lillis (more of a straightforward spoof that merely substituted a Shepardized image of Heath Ledger as Joker on the Obama poster).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: batman; joker; jokerposter; losangeles; msmbias; obama; shepardfairey; socialism; tammybruce
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To: Jeff Head

LOVE this!

Liagra!!!


41 posted on 08/01/2009 5:59:51 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: Para-Ord.45
upper right hand corner is a smudged www. addy

perhaps from here:

http://zarathoestra.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/a-short-history-of-socialism/

42 posted on 08/01/2009 6:00:02 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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To: max americana

“I just saw it near Van Nuys when I picked up my GF. They were on Victory...”

Proud VNHS grad...but I have nothing whatsoever to do with these posters...wish I had, though...very clever...


43 posted on 08/01/2009 6:00:55 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Moonmad27

Smart. I think we need to put the pressure on these Marxist bastards...that’s what is killing him in the polls...get the Grey Panthers and the Blue Dogs out there against him next time...


44 posted on 08/01/2009 6:02:46 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Baladas

Very Shepard Fairey. Shepard became famous doing exactly this, starting a viral campaign with his “obey” works being printed and plastered up in cities all over.


45 posted on 08/01/2009 6:03:42 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Richard Kimball
Very good.....you were ripped off ;)

In Portland Oregon, on election day, there thousands of posters that went up with Obama's mug with the word 'Obey' underneath. Needless to say it got about 20 seconds of media coverage.


46 posted on 08/01/2009 6:03:57 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: TaxPayer2000
http://zarathoestra.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/a-short-history-of-socialism/
47 posted on 08/01/2009 6:04:55 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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To: marktwain; TribalPrincess2U

I don’t think so. There are all kinds of political posters all over LA ... all of them from Liberals.

If anything, people ignore them because they are inured. But they are not offensive IMO.


48 posted on 08/01/2009 6:05:44 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: buccaneer81

“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical. He can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world...BURN.”


49 posted on 08/01/2009 6:06:26 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: eyedigress

No problemo. I’ve seen my Obama-Pee Wee Herman on several web sites. I love it when my stuff goes viral.


50 posted on 08/01/2009 6:06:26 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

A nice play on the poster I see all over LA ... especially in Silver Lake.


51 posted on 08/01/2009 6:07:05 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Konacoast

You nailed it!!


52 posted on 08/01/2009 6:07:05 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: Para-Ord.45

upper left has a date that looks like October 23, 200?


53 posted on 08/01/2009 6:07:49 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: greatdefender

this could be hugh and series


54 posted on 08/01/2009 6:08:10 PM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: Richard Kimball

I remember !!!!

I give you all the credit...


55 posted on 08/01/2009 6:09:05 PM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: zwerni
Yeah, but let's face it. Obama to the Joker isn't much of a stretch. THIS on the other hand:


56 posted on 08/01/2009 6:12:11 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

To the contrary, I think it is very clever.

With luck, it will become the icon of how we remember 0bama.


57 posted on 08/01/2009 6:12:18 PM PDT by papasmurf (RnVjayB5b3UsIDBiYW1hLCB5b3UgcGllY2Ugb2Ygc2hpdCBjb3dhcmQh)
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To: Baladas

Not a good thing to joke about. Somebody is going to have the secret service looking for them. The face painted on the picture depicts somebody cut ear to ear; black dalia style


58 posted on 08/01/2009 6:16:20 PM PDT by Dawggie
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To: BunnySlippers

Liberals can find racism in anything.

Liberal: it is racist! it’s a reverse blackface and therefore the overtly obvious subliminal effect is to portray Obama as a white man, and we all know everyone hates a white man! well okay, maybe it’s just us liberals who hate white men, but whatever, it’s still racist (the poster that is, not hating white guys).


59 posted on 08/01/2009 6:16:24 PM PDT by Humbug
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To: Baladas

Good poster!

Liberals are EMOTIONAL and THIN SKINNED.

This will piss off the black “messiah”.


60 posted on 08/01/2009 6:18:05 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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