Posted on 09/13/2009 5:31:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ever since Glenn Beck took to the Fox television airwaves recently to offer a bizarre reading of the art commissioned 70 years ago for New York's Rockefeller Center, I've been puzzled by the graphic design element of his 9-12 Project. The logo (pictured) for his affiliated groups' rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend derives from century-old communist, socialist and other left-wing designs.
Those were the motifs he railed against in his Rockefeller rant.
For the logo, three raised and clenched red fists are superimposed over the U.S. Capitol. Obviously the bloody fist represents the tea-baggers' themes of unity and resistance.
But do Beck; the corporate-sponsored astro-turf group, FreedomWorks, headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas); the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights; the private-property group, the National Assn. of Rural Landowners; and the rest of the march sponsors know the symbol's origins?
Unity and resistance are what the fist represented in 1917, when it was first employed by the Industrial Workers of the World, a union organization founded by socialists. And in the 1940s, when it stood for various nations' communist party organizations.
That's also what it meant when it was revived in the 1960s, appearing as a symbol for the SDS, as well as anti-war and feminist movements. It was the basis for the black-power salute given by John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. And today, it's the symbol for the Progressive Labor Party (pictured), a political outfit whose website says it "fights to smash capitalism."
Turnout for the 9-12 Project's Saturday march on Washington was a bust; 30,000 protesters signed up in advance (MSNBC reporter David Shuster tweeted that D.C. park police called that figure "generous").
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Chistopher Knight, a man obviously very familiar with tea bagging.
It appears that art critic Knight has problems with the concepts of parody and irony.
Except GB didn’t organize the 9/12 march and had nothing to do with the design of the logo. A few moments of honest fact checking would have revealed that. But why let that get in the way of your faux Gotcha! I’m sure the libs will eat it up and spread it as another meme all over the net.
thats like the best visual ever.....no words needed.
Is this the Christopher Knight I’m thinking of, the nutjob of the Van Dakien or Immanuel Velikovsky variety?
I’m surprised he couldn’t find any masonic imagery...
She looks very masculine.
This is another low point for the latimes. I took a screenshot of the entire page. I think they may pull this thing and try to pretend it was never written.
I interpret the symbol as “power to the people” - kind of a populist symbol. FWIW
Art Critic= too stupid to have a real job
HA!
Looks like WE and Beck and Sarah are getting inside their heads...Its the ulitmate OODA-Loop! ( and being Army air corps you would know what I mean..hee.hee.)
LOL! Now the Brady Bunch is attacking.
Thirty thousand people? The guy who wrote this is not only a liar, he is a scum bag.
Wait tell he sees the cover of Glenn’s new book.
I don't know how to post a link so just copy and paste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjvc6baor8
COMRADES!!!
Thirty thousand people in Washington? Is he insane?
And another homo ‘journalist’ from the LA Times puts his two cents in.
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