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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: ctdonath2
Lets not forget the Democrat posters actually calling for the overthrow of President Bush. These are from Boston Common on 24 March 2007. Where was the media concern then? They just applauded.






81 posted on 08/04/2009 7:39:11 AM PDT by WaterBoard (Somewhere a Village is Missing it's Socialist.)
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To: WaterBoard
Oops. Dupe.


82 posted on 08/04/2009 7:40:19 AM PDT by WaterBoard (Somewhere a Village is Missing it's Socialist.)
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To: novemberslady

Some answer with a friggin axe handle too.
I will not talk to any US Census person when they come. They are ACORN


83 posted on 08/04/2009 7:41:03 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: agere_contra

Would make for an interesting series of spoof posters

Batman’s famous

villans-
The Ventriloquist
Two face
Poison Ivy
The Riddler
The scarecrow
Tweedledee & Tweedledum- cousins

Corrupt cops
Lex Luthor


84 posted on 08/04/2009 7:41:15 AM PDT by Blu By U
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To: MrB
Perhaps it was a veiled threat to those who are participating in this campaign.

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Agreed, although not so very veiled.

85 posted on 08/04/2009 7:41:31 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: suthener

I think the reaction is a typical reaction from a bully who has been pushed back.

Obama is not a person of substance he is a bully who is the leaders of bullies.

Obama is just the leader of the mob.

Well now the leader of the mob has been retoriclly exposed and hit, so the mob does not know how to act.

This is playground antics on the part of the crybaby obamabots.


86 posted on 08/04/2009 7:43:30 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Blu By U

Hillary as Poison Ivy (think about it...double entendre); Biden as The Riddler (too obvious); Gibbs as Ventriloquist?


87 posted on 08/04/2009 7:43:41 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom ("First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!" Mahatma Ghandi)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Forgot One.

Mr. Freeze= Emanuel


88 posted on 08/04/2009 7:45:54 AM PDT by Blu By U
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Forgot One.

Mr. Freeze= Emanuel


89 posted on 08/04/2009 7:46:09 AM PDT by Blu By U
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To: Schnucki
I just love getting lectured by HYPOCRITES!!!

******

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a journalist, author and broadcaster. Hutchinson is also the author of nine books about the African American experience. He serves as the President of the National Alliance for Positive Action, and is a contributor to The Huffington Post.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson
July 24, 2009

"No Apology Needed, President Obama, for Speaking Out on Gates"

90 posted on 08/04/2009 7:48:33 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Schnucki

91 posted on 08/04/2009 7:48:43 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Jewbacca

Yes, it’s pussy, it’s girly, its hair pulling, but the question is, do we let it work for them? Do we let them shut down thought or do we keep laughing at them as we runt them out of town on a rail?


92 posted on 08/04/2009 7:49:34 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: sonic109
Some answer with a friggin axe handle too.

Yikes!
That's scary stuff.

I will not talk to any US Census person when they come. They are ACORN

I've already spoken to the census people. (last year as a matter of fact)
If they have any other questions I'm sure they'll ask.
93 posted on 08/04/2009 7:49:51 AM PDT by novemberslady
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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.

LOL Where's that picture of the great seal of the Democratic Party?

What a bunch of cry babies.

94 posted on 08/04/2009 7:50:17 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Schnucki

Frankly I wonder why adults have to behave like children. When liberals demean conservative politicians they don’t like, conservatives rightly object to that. Now that the liberals are in control, conservatives should not support the same kind of behavior they condemned before.

I am ashamed at much of the hysterical idiocy I’m seeing among those I am most like.


95 posted on 08/04/2009 7:52:33 AM PDT by HoustonTech
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To: sonic109

Just lie to them. Active ggressive actions put you on the list to get ‘round up.

Sometimes passive aggression is best, until the time to strike is nigh.

If in a blue state, say no one lives there year-around. If in a red state, count your pets. All other question, just fill in nonsense.


96 posted on 08/04/2009 7:55:12 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: potlatch; holdonnow

97 posted on 08/04/2009 7:56:25 AM PDT by devolve (- - .....mean-spiritedanddangerous.com..... - -)
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To: Schnucki
King Obama nailed.
98 posted on 08/04/2009 7:57:25 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Tarpon
Thats just wrong........hehehehehehehehe
99 posted on 08/04/2009 7:58:03 AM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: tet68
“A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit...” The who??

Do not ask, plebian. The LA-UPU has that domestic pacification sector covered well.

100 posted on 08/04/2009 7:58:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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