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okay fellow resistors, time to spread the word and post your Obama-Joker posters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVuUJx0rw84

Yes, it's heartening that the rate of job destruction slowed significantly in July--only 247,000 lost non-farm jobs versus 443,000 in June. The labor market does appear to be stabilizing. Still, the unemployment rate itself, despite the drop from 9.5 to 9.4 percent last month, is definitely going to get worse before it gets much better. Consider what actually happened last month: The number of unemployed people dropped by 267,000 while the overall employment number (as opposed to non-farm employment, which is the most typically cited number) dropped by 155,000. Which is to say, those 267,000 no-longer-unemployed people didn't get jobs....

A caricature of Obama as Heath Ledger's garish, pasty-faced Joker from "The Dark Knight" is appearing on the Facebook pages of many an Obama critic these days. And, as is depressingly common, there are Democrats who cry "racist!" The Washington Post devoted several hundred words on the topic: "[The] poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the 'urban' makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can't openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the...

I did it today. I joined the resistance. After making a few copies at Kinkos, I plastered the Obama Joker photos in several trail tunnels and overpasses. I think I'll hit a few more places tomarrow. IT WAS A RUSH!!!! I was nervous as I peared around and made sure nobody was around. I quickly stuck the posters to the concrete and left briskfully. DAMN, THAT FELT GOOD...ANYONE GOT A CIG ???

Much is being made by white liberals among the chattering classes of the cartoon image of Barack Obama as the Joker. One particularly revealing article was written by Liberal Washington Post writer Philip Kennicott attributing racism to the caricature. The base of the argument for racism was built on the claim that the black man is essentially an inner city urban dweller. That is, of course a racist caricature based on a misconception. In fact, according to the US census, only a 3% difference exists between “central city” blacks and non central city blacks. About 36% live in the suburbs...

Here they are: Download them, print them out, pass out to friends, leave at restaurants, give to people, leave on tables or at the main office copier. Spread these around. Make sure to put the back image along with the front, the point is to capture attention with the front, get them to turn it over and start reading about the bill and hopefully shocking them to get engaged opposing it.

First there was the original, Heath Ledger. His performance was praised by one and all. Then came the George W. Bush cover on Vanity Fair and the Right shrugged and said that was rude -- but inaccurate. We all knew that W. was actually Batman.                                                     So now there's the ubiquitous Obama as Joker poster and the Left is up in arms. Immediately they started sputtering -- how terrible! Why.. why... it's RACIST! Well, despite eloquent and empassioned arguments by legitimate commentators, like the article by Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post yesterday -- I'm sorry but it's a stretch. A huge...

Obama Joker Dollar images, front and back - download, print out, distribute. http://www.flickr.com/photos/41200056@N02/

This required a few passes to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks. You keep telling yourself to stop being amazed by hypocrisy and bias, but again and again someone like Philip Kennicott, a staff writer for the Washington Post, comes up with nonsense like this: And didn’t we see George W. Bush depicted as the Joker not so long ago? Yes, in an image by Drew Friedman published online by Vanity Fair on July 29, 2008. That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on...

Posters started appearing in Los Angeles depicting Obama as the Joker with the word “socialism” below his face. The image quickly spread throughout the internet, gaining knee-jerk liberal condemnation and making people ask things like “What does Obama have to do with the Joker?” and “What does the Joker have to do with socialism?” and “Is this racist somehow? I’m pretty sure it has to be racist.” Well, as it’s my job as some guy on the internet, I will definitively answer all of these questions. First off, it’s worth looking at whether the poster is racist. Liberals seem pretty...

Obotomy ...

In the past few days, an image of Barack Obama depicted as Heath Ledger's Joker character from the movie The Dark Knight has been posted around streets and freeways in Los Angeles and is also doing the rounds on the internet. With the caption "socialism" at the bottom, the image is supposed to be a not-so-complimentary piece of street art, a radical take on the president's ubiquitous "Hope" poster by Shepard Fairey. There is no doubt that the image is creepy and makes the president look sinister. But is it, as some have claimed, "dangerous", "mean spirited" or indeed "racist"?...

ON first watching Hillary Clinton’s recent “It’s 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease. I realized that I had only too often in my study of America’s racial history seen images much like these, and the sentiments to which they allude.

In 1987, Andres Serrano submerged a small plastic crucifix in a glass jar of his own urine and called it Piss Christ. Not to be outdone, Chris Ofili daubed elephant dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary. While some narrow-minded philistines complained, the artistic establishment heaped praise (and money) on these and works like them. The National Endowment for the Arts was so impressed with Serrano’s work they granted him $15,000 courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. For his effort, Ofili was awarded the Turner Prize, Britain’s most prestigious art award...[snip]... Shocking the middle classes is one thing. Shocking the...

Google Translated: Tegucigalpa, Honduras . . The youth of Generation for Change and protested, as they always did so at peace, with much imagination and sense of humor. The act was developed against Presidential House, where more than a month ago officials from Manuel Zelaya Rosales ordered loot the vaults of the Central Bank, which investigates corruption case the Public Prosecutor. Personify known former ministers and a close collaborator of Zelaya, youth walked along the street that passes in front of the headquarters of the executive branch pushing carts (masonry) for simulating load sacks full of money. The act of...

An article in...Thursday’s Washington Post lashed out at the viral Obama-as-the-Joker posters, attacking them as promoting "coded," "racially charged" images. Staff writer Philip Kennicott smeared the images, which have been showing up in Los Angeles as flat-out bigoted... In the August 6 piece, Kennicott provided this incendiary take on the poster campaign: "Obama, like the Joker and like the racial stereotype of the black man, carries within him an unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence, which could erupt at any time." The Post writer did acknowledge that a similar image deriding Bush as the villainous character...But he goes...

Liberals spent eight years caricaturing President Bush as a chimpanzee, a vampire, a criminal, with a gun to his head, being hanged, being beheaded, and − yes − as the Joker. But these very same people now cry “racism!” when President Obama is caricatured as − you guessed it − the Joker.

Obama keeps firing more drone missiles; we keep blowing up more hearts and minds. It's more than just a crusade. It's a video game! The Good War

There's nothing like a controversial political caricature to get people talking, blogging and tweeting. But when it comes to understanding those same cartoons -- as opposed to rehashing, reblogging and retweeting them -- context is key. The New Yorker magazine's infamous cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama in radical drag, bumping fists in the Oval Office as an American flag burns in the fireplace, is understood to be a parody of conservative paranoia, not an attack on the first couple. But put that same image on the cover of the Weekly Standard and the illustration takes on a vastly...

By now everyone has seen the new Obama/Socialism poster, which has stirred up quite the controversy. This sure seems strange, when one considers the massive number of George W. Bush posters that have publicly portrayed him as Hitler, a Vampire, or a criminal, among other things. As far as the hypocritical left is concerned, it is perfectly okay to make fun of a Republican president. But when there is a Democrat in office, ridicule becomes a serious offense. Last night Greg Gutfeld, host of the Fox News program “Red Eye,” spoke about the Obama poster: “[T]his Obama Joker face only...