LA Weekly Immediately Goes To The Race Card Over Obama Joker Image.....

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[floor sweeper]

Is anyone surprised ?

[imahawk]

I think it fits him rather well dont you?

[ak267]

I’ve made a bunch...will be posting them soon.

VIVA LA RESISTANCE !!!!!

[GoCards]

Knew that was coming. It is a horrible pic I think. Scary!

[cvq3842]

Typical.

[lucias_clay]

I’m shocked. Shocked I tell ya.

[Tarpon]

Race card for the racist ... next

[mylife]

Racial violence?

[freedumb2003]

Always worth a repost:

Hey libs -- Heath Ledger (and his Joker character) was *gasp* WHITE!

[OldDeckHand]

I'm surprised by many of the comments found on LA Daily to this moron's story. They are critical of him and supportive of the piece of graphic art, to say the least.

If this is portrayed as "racist" in any way, what the left is then saying is that any criticism of Obama in any way, shape or form is inherently racist - how convenient for them.

[Dallas59]

Lol...

[Travis McGee]

[domenad]

Dumbest thing I’ve experienced today, and I was in a construction meeting for most of it, so you know it’s bad.

[hecht]

so was soetoro’s mamma

[mylife]

A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.

Ummm... it was reported in the art magazine "bedlam" first.

[Future Snake Eater]

[Noumenon]

I'm going to make a lovely bumper sticker out of that for my collection:

NoBama HERE

[chevydude26]

somebody needs to make this a bumper sticker...i’d buy one immediately!!!

[OldDeckHand]

"It is a horrible pic I think. Scary!"

Really? I think it's tremendous and wonderfully effective. It borrows from contemporary pop-culture icon, and intermingles it with Obama's own piece of self-worshiping graphic art, to make a salient and biting piece of satire. It's brilliant.

[behzinlea]

The comments are running about 19 to 1 against the pathetic liberal whiny toad who wrote the piece. They’re great!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

*Yawn* What’s the next excuse? That little dude that keeps hollerin’ ‘bout that wolf is getting a little dull.

[TYVets]

When they play the race card you are getting under their skin.

[floor sweeper]

Of course this was perfectly acceptable.

http://www.puppethead.com/blog/archives/2003/misc/bush_hitler.jpg

[Enterprise]

The Joker must be angry at being compared to Obama.

[NautiNurse]

[HardStarboard]

It isn’t race. It’s the ears!

[mylife]

Or this?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It IS brilliant. Remember folks.....this is how the libtards ‘play’. Say something (or show something) long enough....it becomes synonymous with the person (enemy). Just the way internet memes happen. It’s imbedded in the psyche.

[Bubba_Leroy]

[combat_boots]

Goya comes to mind:

http://msdlists.com/Goya%20Saturn%20Devouring%20His%20Children.html

[Bratch]

Yeah, LA Weekly would never stoop that low.

[bayliving]

somebody needs to make this a bumper sticker...i’d buy one immediately!!!

DITTO!

[behzinlea]

Really? I think it's tremendous and wonderfully effective. It borrows from contemporary pop-culture icon, and intermingles it with Obama's own piece of self-worshiping graphic art, to make a salient and biting piece of satire. It's brilliant.

I agree. The image burns instantly and permanently into the memory because of all those reasons as well. Powerful mojo here.

[floor sweeper]

That is a fantastic find Bratch. I knew something like that was out there.

[LS]

“Um! The Force is powerful with this one.”

[Always Independent]

Didn’t know there was a race of Jokers!

[combat_boots]

I forgot “Third of May”

http://eeweems.com/goya/3rd_of_may.html

“City on a Rock”
“Colossus”

Goya was on a roll toward the end of his life. These could be adapted.

[Cyropaedia]

From the article :

The safe money says the first thing out of the mouths of Fox News bobble-heads is, "Can't liberals take a joke?"

Unfortunately, as the author himself proves, - no.

[Future Snake Eater]

[paulycy]

See tagline.

[Cicero]

Well, we all know that dressing up in blackface is now considered racist. So, how can it be racist to dress someone up in whiteface?

[Windcatcher]

This needs to go viral.

[OldDeckHand]

The archival power of the internet is not be trifled with. It took you precisely 13 minutes from the time this thread was posted, until the time that you posted that LA Weekly cover image.

[behzinlea]

The leftists' various depictions ridiculing Bush, as extreme and vicious as they were, weren't one tenth as effective as this one piece of art could be in tagging Obama. The anti-Bush art always rang false at a deep level because it did not really track with the person Bush was at his core. They came off over-the-top and strained, and people generally knew that.

But this "Joker" art rings true at a deep, visceral level. Obama is a secretive man of ambiguous origins who burst on the scene without resume, who now seeks to command our attention and control every aspect of our lives. People will sense a genuine, creepy, and eery connection between Heath Ledger's "Joker" and Obama.

[bfree]

Love the picture!!! He’s a POS and deserves ridicule. Even the comments see through the whining of the author. It’s funny!

[HangnJudge]

Variant on this...

[HangnJudge]

[mylife]

L0L!

[onemiddleamerican]

Why? So the "Joker" image has Obama in white-face makeup. The Joker schtick wouldn't make sense of the artist had just put the eye makeup and lip crap on a "natural" image of Obama. And anyway, Obama is half-white.

[Bratch]

In the interests of full disclosure, Big Hollywood found the "fangs" pic.