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Obama's Artist/Communist-Propagandist, Shepard Fairey
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Posted on 08/12/2008 6:30:29 PM PDT by ETL

From Barack Obama's official website:

“I wanted to make an art piece of Barack Obama because I thought an iconic portrait of him could symbolize and amplify the importance of his mission. I believe Obama will guide this country to a future where everyone can thrive and I should support him vigorously for the sake of my two young daughters. I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and I’m delighted if I can encourage them to see the merits of Barack Obama.

-Shepard Fairey
http://store.barackobama.com/product_p/po26951.htm

See? It's all about "peace, love, togetherness" and "change".

Here are some of Fairey's other masterpieces. No joke. Most of his works are along these same lines (anti-American, pro-communist propaganda). Check the link.




Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery:
http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/?method=Artist.ArtistDetail&ArtistID=F65EBB86-3048-28EB-92D55AA4FC996E31&GalleryID=82C33C59-3048-28EB-92DB386C8C733405

From a 'thank you' letter Barack Obama sent to Shepard Fairey:
"Dear Shepard, I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign.'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html

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Portrait of Angela Davis by Obama artist Shepard Fairey:


Angela Davis

Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery (link given above)

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS

* Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the “History of Consciousness” program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a “University Professor,” one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant. This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students. Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; art; fairey; obama; obamatruthfile; shepardfairey
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1 posted on 08/12/2008 6:30:29 PM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL

Pearl of Wisdom: “People who don’t know what they don’t know, are fools. People who are in power and don’t know what they don’t know, are very dangerous — and Obama doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. He’s recklessly dangerous.” from Rush


2 posted on 08/12/2008 6:31:48 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: ETL
"...help change the status quo."

Yeah. From our "status quo" to their "status quo."

3 posted on 08/12/2008 6:35:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm trying to save the planet!" - Nancy Pelosi ..........ROTFLMAO! What a dumbass!)
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To: All
From Monday, April 21st, 2008...

My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore

Friends,

I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php

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Michael Moore (quote), from his website, April 14, 2004...

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14

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The Communist Party USA (CPUSA):
"We are a party of unity in action. We are an integral part of every struggle and movement for change to eliminate poverty and joblessness, against racism and for full equality. We are participants, initiators and leaders of every movement to make life better now and much better in a socialist future." Yeah, so they supported an oppressive dictator, like the Repubs and Democrats haven't? The CP is still around, has apologized for that whole Stalin thing, and has a quickly growing youth section.
[see: MichaelMoore.com-->Links-->PoliticalAction (bottom of the page--CPUSA promo)]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/links/index.php?linkType=Political%20Action

4 posted on 08/12/2008 6:37:36 PM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: All
From RushLimbaugh.com:
Hanoi Jane Endorses Obama
April 3, 2008

REPORTER 1: Jane, who are you voting for?

REPORTER 2: Who gets your vote?

FONDA: Obama.

REPORTER 2: Oh, my God. Heaven help us all.

RUSH: The reporter for TMZ said, "Oh, God. Heaven help us all." Obviously the reporter is an Obama supporter.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_040308/content/01125111.guest.html

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November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline

Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."

Source for most of the Jane Fonda material:
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm

5 posted on 08/12/2008 6:39:20 PM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: ETL

Obamao video—he labels Federal Immigration Law Enforcement Officers as Terrorists. GRRRRRRRRRRRR!

http://www.victoriataft.com/2008/08/obama-labels-federal-immigration-law.html


6 posted on 08/12/2008 6:39:53 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: ETL

Angela Davis. Another commie who has become a millionaire happily embracing that which she professes to hate. God, how I hate those people.


7 posted on 08/12/2008 6:41:34 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ETL

If the One is elected, we will see communist art everywhere. I bet that every lamp post on the Mall in DC will be decorated with this poster of BHO — sort of like the Nazis or Moaists who worshiped their supreme leader.


8 posted on 08/12/2008 6:45:46 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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To: ETL

Be careful going after Fairey, there isn’t a graphic artist on the East Coast who doesn’t idolize the guy for his Andre the Giant has a Posse” stencil from the late 1980’s.

Even some freepers were taggin his stenciling and stickers in years past. I was one of them.


9 posted on 08/12/2008 6:46:46 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: JerseyHighlander
Be careful going after Fairey...

You're joking, right?

10 posted on 08/12/2008 6:51:51 PM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: ETL

His stickers are the most produced and mimicked graffiti stickers ever made. He came from the small town south, went to ivy tower RISD, and had more street cred in NYC than any other stencil graffiti artist in the early 1990’s.

Fairey can make 5 phone calls and get $1,000,000 in free publicity. Each and every day, for weeks.
Every graphic and visual artist under 40 in the North East grew up idolizing the guy, he has connections across every advertising agency, every media organization’s design dept, and almost every advertising and modern art working artist across the region.

So no, I’m not joking.


11 posted on 08/12/2008 7:10:24 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: ETL
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12 posted on 08/12/2008 7:13:25 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: JerseyHighlander

The guy is a communist propagandist. Do you understand that?


13 posted on 08/12/2008 7:14:26 PM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: ETL

I don’t argue what he is, I agree he is as far left an agitator as can be in this country, but I was trying to tell you he also has a long standing and deep rooted following of fellow artists and travelers.


14 posted on 08/12/2008 7:20:00 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: JerseyHighlander
he also has a long standing and deep rooted following of fellow artists and travelers.

He certainly does have "fellow travelers". Can't argue with you there...

From a 'thank you' letter Barack Obama sent to Shepard Fairey:
"Dear Shepard, I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign.'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html

15 posted on 08/12/2008 7:26:24 PM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: ETL

16 posted on 08/12/2008 7:38:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Stop the Obamanation!))))
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To: ETL; governsleastgovernsbest; kristinn; PJ-Comix
So Obama is encouraging vandalism, as long as it's his face plastered on stop signs?


17 posted on 08/12/2008 7:42:36 PM PDT by library user
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To: library user

Oh, great, Obama praises vandalism of public safety signage!!!

This should get wide circulation — Obambi encouraging his activists to ILLEGALLY deface highway signs. Outrageous!


18 posted on 08/12/2008 7:44:55 PM PDT by Enchante (If oil was botox then Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!! (hat tip, STARWISE))
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To: ETL
Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his posters.
For MANY MORE EXAMPLES of Fairey's radicalism, see Obey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints




19 posted on 08/12/2008 7:56:02 PM PDT by Dajjal (Visit Ann Coulter's getdrunkandvote4mccain.com)
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To: Dajjal
When you boil it down, Fairey must harbor a lot of hate for his country and his fellow Americans.

Pathetic little pig...

20 posted on 08/12/2008 8:02:42 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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