Posted on 11/01/2011 7:25:12 AM PDT by NMEwithin
A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities.
The montage, a banner on a mass email to Loudoun Republicans, mingles seasonal images including a jack-o-lantern, a disfigured U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a throng of flesh-hungry zombie Obama supporters.
The posterized image of a rotting, undead Obama with a bleeding, large-caliber hole an inch above his right eye prompted Democrats to cry foul and Virginia's Republican governor to denounce it as “shameful and offensive.”
“This is a disgusting and violent portrayal of the president of the United States,” said Democratic Party of Virginia spokesman Brian Coy.
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Why? This thread is about zombies. Having a life is optional in such discussions.
Aren't they hard to burn when you urinate on them first? And I agree with your assessment of the sanctimonious freepers who claim an image 0 is offensive. Any image of that communist SOS is offensive. This image is no more offensive than any other.
Loudoun Bump
Gene pools? What are you on about! You’re borderline crazy huh
NBC is really stretching this. it reminds me of when the Obama as Joker pictures came out. The media called it "racist" because it resembled the "blackface" makeup vaudeville performers like Al Jolson used to wear.
I see nothing wrong with the zombie picture.
This image is slightly inaccurate as it depicts Obama as actually having a brain.
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