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Spoof poster of Obama's face painted as The Joker branded 'dangerous and mean-spirited'
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | August 4, 2009

Posted on 08/04/2009 7:09:48 AM PDT by Schnucki

A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called 'mean-spirited and dangerous' by the U.S. President's supporters.

The image, which has been adopted by Mr Obama's critics, shows him wearing the white face paint and smudged red lips of the character most recently played by the late actor Heath Ledger. Beneath the picture reads the word 'socialism'.

The creator of the image remains unknown, but the website that first published the image crashed yesterday because so many had been attempting to view it. It has since been spotted in Los Angeles and Atlanta after it appeared in U.S. media.

The right-wing editor of the American Thinker website, Thomas Lifson, wrote today: 'It is starting.

'Open mockery of of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.'

But the President's supporters have condemned the image, calling it 'mean-spirited and dangerous.'

A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit said that depicting the president as demonic and a socialist 'goes beyond political spoofery.'

The image comes as the President faces criticism over his plans to create a $1trillion healthcare programme.

Republican chairman Michael Steele first used the word 'socialism' in relation to Mr Obama two weeks ago as he slammed the President's attempts to push Congress into passing the healthcare reforms.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; america2point0; asocialistamerica; bds; boycotttimewarner; dccomics; doublestandard; jokerposter; obama; obamessiah; parody; pravdamedia; satire; shepherdfairey; socialism; stalinisttactics; thejoker; timelies; ussa
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To: Islander7

Wow. I posted a fake birth certificate with a sock monkey pic and it got yanked...


21 posted on 08/04/2009 7:17:27 AM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: Schnucki

mean-spirited? It is either true or not. To be mean II think there has to be some truth to it. If you call a lean and trim person a fat slob, that wouldn’t be mean just stupid. Calling an overweight person a fat slob would be mean. Likewise a horror image of Obama with socialism has more than a little truth to it and some could choose to see it as mean. As in it is mean to tell the truth when I don’t like that truth.


22 posted on 08/04/2009 7:17:39 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Schnucki

I guess ‘Obama Supporters’ forgot about the hundreds of thousands of posters used by Democrats to mock Bush (Chimpy McBush, Bush is Hitler) or thousands of Dailykos/DU types sites doing much worse.

1) New Scientific Study Reveals Bush is a Chimp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/new-scientific-study-reve_b_63515.html

2) http://www.bushorchimp.com/pics2.html

3) Ad Comparing Bush to Hitler Gets Heat

What MoveOn.org wanted was for people to submit 30-second ads that were critical of President Bush, but what the liberal-leaning organization got was a controversy over one entry that compared Bush to Adolf Hitler.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.html

But hypocrisy is fine in their eyes.


23 posted on 08/04/2009 7:17:52 AM PDT by WaterBoard (Somewhere a Village is Missing it's Socialist.)
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To: Tarpon

Aaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh STOP !
friggin scared the hell out of me..too early in the day for this !


24 posted on 08/04/2009 7:18:45 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: Schnucki
A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called 'mean-spirited and dangerous' by the U.S. President's supporters.

...'and dangerous'...sounds like a threat to me...
25 posted on 08/04/2009 7:18:45 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: agere_contra

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/how-quickly-they-forget/


26 posted on 08/04/2009 7:19:12 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Schnucki
and yet...this: Bush Joker was considered a brilliant work of art.
27 posted on 08/04/2009 7:19:37 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: Americanwolf
But this appearing in Obama-loving Vanity Fair was satire:



Democrats are such pussies.
28 posted on 08/04/2009 7:19:42 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: suthener

To be fair, maybe the Los Angeles urban policy unit removes posters from underpasses.

One day maybe they’ll get their own police procedural on TV. “LA UPU”!


29 posted on 08/04/2009 7:20:33 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: novemberslady

I’ll give it a year before FR is yanked and other sites like this..We are dangerous alright !


30 posted on 08/04/2009 7:20:36 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: WaterBoard

CHECH THIS ONE OF BUSH AT VANITY FAIR> READ SOME COMMENTS TOO!

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html


31 posted on 08/04/2009 7:21:06 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: NMEwithin

Nice find! I didn’t remember seeing that before.


32 posted on 08/04/2009 7:21:09 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: TommyDale

Yeah im surprised that has not been yanked


34 posted on 08/04/2009 7:21:45 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: Jewbacca

yeah they may be pussies, but they have a charismatic leader that they have blind faith in.... even the Nazi and stalinist won by mass of numbers...and not internal courage or strength. thats what scares me...


35 posted on 08/04/2009 7:21:54 AM PDT by Americanwolf ("How could they not tell they had a friggin 70 foot whale hanging off their bow?" ---Tijeras_slim)
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To: ltc8k6

Lordy! Thanks for the link.


36 posted on 08/04/2009 7:22:04 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Schnucki

I’m happy that these posters started in the same town where many people thought it was a joke that SP was hanged in effigy.


37 posted on 08/04/2009 7:22:22 AM PDT by Lou Budvis (Why so s0cialist? - the j0ker.)
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To: Schnucki

What about the novel, movie, and (I think) also a play about the ASSASSINATION of GWB? What did these same people say then?


38 posted on 08/04/2009 7:22:22 AM PDT by cvq3842 (Countless thousands of our ancestors died to give us the freedoms we have today. Stay involved!)
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To: novemberslady
They even did this to Laura:



Goose, meet gander.
39 posted on 08/04/2009 7:23:11 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Schnucki

Gee and all the posters of George Bush as a chimp were OK. Hypocrites.


40 posted on 08/04/2009 7:23:13 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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