Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist

The Smoking Gun ^ | Sept. 5, 2012 | unknown

[Dajjal]

This thread is a good place to learn who Shepard Fairey is:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obama’s Venomous Artist-Fundraiser

Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his own artwork, such as these.
See Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints

Obama has written Fairey that he admires "the political messages involved in your work."

The political messages in Fairey's art are:
1) Communist dictators are god-like supermen
2) The United States is a police state at home and an imperialist oppressor abroad
3) Capitalism is an evil system based on greed and exploitation
4) Ordinary Amerikkkan workers are guilty of blithely supporting an unjust system
5) The only good Americans are those who fight The System
6) The communist Peoples' Armies will soon triumph over Amerikkkan imperialism and bring peace to the world out of the barrel of a gun.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Karma is a wonderful thing.

[yank in the UK]

Maybe they should deport him to north Korea, he could get a job making propaganda posters for fat boy.

[Dajjal]

Shepard Fairey ping

[the_Watchman]

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word “Obey”. (Anyone hear echoes of “there were giants in the land”?)

[Slyfox]

You know, he is a great artist.

[Milton Miteybad]

Yeah...Shepherd ought to do real well in the joint...what with him having a last name like "Fairey."













Heh, heh...heh, heh...heh, heh...

[bronxville]

Nice one. Can you do one that says HOPELESS? :)

[Dajjal]

I forgot to check the "this is an excerpt" box.

The full article can be read at the Source:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/shepard-fairey-sentencing-report-683412

Can you fix that, please?

[Slyfox]

[Dajjal]

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word “Obey”. (Anyone hear echoes of “there were giants in the land”?)

See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obama’s Venomous Artist-Fundraiser

Excerpt:

"His first famous artwork was a sticker depicting Andre the Giant (Andre Roussimoff, 1946 - 1993), the WWE Hall of Fame wrestler and actor.

"In his mind, Fairey began to associate the strength of the wrestler with the power of giant government. Andre the Giant became a symbol of Big Brother because he was ... big. Fairey soon created a stylized version of Andre’s face, which he adopted as the logo of his Obey Giant company."

[Army Air Corps]

There is a bit of trivia related to those stats - they represent the height and weight of Andre the Giant. Fairey thought that Andre was a great symbol for Big Gummint because of his size.

[machogirl]

uh oh, hollywood celebs “i pledge video” has the fairey poster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0

“i pledge to be a servant to barack obama”, the creepy 2008 celeb video

**wonder how many of their “pledges” they’ve kept?

[Army Air Corps]

I guess they belong to the government...

[machogirl]

Ashton and Demi broke their pledge (marriage), so did Courtney Cox and her hubby. Wonder if the “Housewife” Eva, planted 500 trees..... blah, blah, blah. I haven’t seen any of them abandon their highfalutin, jet set lifestyles.

[Dajjal]

A very real concern is whether Shepard Fairey is going to unveil a 2012 Obama poster at the DNC convention. He is adept at making eye-catching posters (though usually plagiarizing another artist's original artwork or photograph). In 2008 Conservatives missed every opportunity to create a Wright- or Pfleger-level scandal or tying the Hope and Change and Progress posters to Fairey's Stalin and Mao and "E Pluribus Venom" posters.

If Fairey designs a 2012 poster, I hope that Conservatives do not make the same mistake again.

[Defiant]

Isnt that what the guy who spoke for Obama tonight did?

[Rastus]

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word “Obey”. (Anyone hear echoes of “there were giants in the land”?)

It's the size of his cellmate, Bubba, who will make him his bitch.

[thecodont]

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word “Obey”. (Anyone hear echoes of “there were giants in the land”?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse

[kiryandil]

See, Fairey should have just stolen a couple of billion dollars from investors, like Jon Corzine. Then, he wouldn't be facing ANY jail time.

Of course, he'd also have to know where all the political bodies were buried.

Federal prosecutors are nothing but a gang of thugs with armed enforcers.