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Glenn Beck's '9-12' Logo Based on Communist and Socialist Designs
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/13/09 | Christopher Knight

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 912project; art; captainobvious; commievote; communist; duh; glennbeck; logo; media; parody; teaparty
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1 posted on 09/13/2009 5:31:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Good Knight Christopher


2 posted on 09/13/2009 5:33:59 PM PDT by tommyboy
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To: nickcarraway
Consider the source...


3 posted on 09/13/2009 5:34:12 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: nickcarraway

Is THE Christopher Knight from Brady Bunch fame?


4 posted on 09/13/2009 5:34:32 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Obamamessiah’s whole platform is bases on Communism . How come they didn’t print that?


5 posted on 09/13/2009 5:34:54 PM PDT by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: nickcarraway

They have never understood parody


6 posted on 09/13/2009 5:34:54 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: nickcarraway

There was a helluva lot more than 30,000 people there. I guess Knight has never seen the photos and video.


7 posted on 09/13/2009 5:35:34 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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I have been seeing that logo for months. I always assumed they were mocking the far left. The left doesn’t understand ridicule when they see it.


8 posted on 09/13/2009 5:35:57 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: nickcarraway
Turnout for the 9-12 Project's Saturday march on Washington was a bust

This is what a liar calls a bust:


912: AMERICA AWAKES. (Many photos. You judge the crowd size.)

9 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:07 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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geez, I’ve seen those clenched fists during an Olympic award ceremony, too


10 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:19 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: GeronL

Bingo!


11 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: GeronL

That, my FRiend is an understatement.


12 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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13 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:29 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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ok....you caught us....Beck is a communist....great investigative journalism, you guys...i see a peebody award in this one for ya...


14 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:40 PM PDT by bagster
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To: nickcarraway

what a complete idiot.

astro turf
30,000
a bust
now Beck is a commie

then the so called media wonder why no one cares about them now.

The left have completely lost it.
Their Bush derangement was much worse than I first thought


15 posted on 09/13/2009 5:36:56 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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Yegads, this boy is as dumb as a stump.


16 posted on 09/13/2009 5:37:17 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: nickcarraway

Other than the colors and presence of a fist the logos aren’t even close.


17 posted on 09/13/2009 5:37:28 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Army Air Corps

and chris Wallace TODAY and FOX is still saying “in the tens of thousands’

HUH?


18 posted on 09/13/2009 5:37:40 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: nickcarraway

Uh...Is he for real?
They just don’t get it, do they?
Besides, the Beck 9/12 logo is the the Join or Die Flag, from our pre-Revolution times.

I think it’s funnier than heck that they used the fist icon for the event.
It’s like when Beck uses “comrade” to address his listeners and fans sometimes.
It’s called humor...check into it.


19 posted on 09/13/2009 5:37:53 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Change you can believe in...Revolution you must pay for.)
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"Ohhhh, brrrrother..."

20 posted on 09/13/2009 5:38:18 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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