ICONOGRAPHY: Why conservatives need it to win [fascinating video]

Pajamas Media TV ^ | 8/19/09 | Bill Whittle

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RIDICULE is the best weapon against narcissists like Obama. This video is pitch perfect.

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[bboop]

This is very good. Linked at top.

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Ordinarily I wouldn’t have taken the time to watch it.
It was the “LOL” poster that drew me in.

IOW, it was the iconography that got me to listen to the message!

ARE YOU LISTENING, GOP?!

[Auntie Mame]

Interesting.......

[Dudoight]

Where can we get this for a bumper sticker. I have never placed a bumper sticker in my life....but I would put this one on my car and my pickup.

[the invisib1e hand]

evoking a subconscious emotional response is intellectual fraud.

When you respect and honor an individual -- a bedrock conservative principle -- you don't try to pick his emotional pocket. You engage him in charity and truth.

Talk about a strategy for "rinos." As if image really were everything, conservatives jump on the icon bandwagon 20 years after the left did; the left which has perfected it and moved on to its logical successor: outright fraud, legal subterfuge and coercion.

[LS]

This is one of the few 8-minute videos worth watching. He is dead on. But I like my “OOPS” bumpersticker better, with the zer0.

[xcamel]

‘ROFL!’ would be better than ‘LOL’

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Oh, for pete’s sake.

The whole point is that the left has made the ICON itself their ultimate principle.

There’s a snowball’s chance of herding a bunch of conservatives to follow an icon. THE POINT OF THE ICON is simply to draw people in long enough for them to hear our message. If all they get is MediaCrats and the DNC, then why should we be surprised when they don’t “get” conservatism.

[AnnaZ]

Totally agree with you. The video is excellent, but the OOPS is a much better logo for the counter-movement.

[xcamel]

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/lol+obama+gifts

But I like the ROFLMAO with both O’s being the 0bama logo better.

[FreedomPoster]

Bill Whittle worth reading and watching, period.

[Brookhaven]

It seems a lot of people here don’t understand satire.

Do we want to engage in intellecutal arguents (yes, becase intellectually we’re right.) It’s the left that wants to deal in imaage instead of substance. So how do you counter that?

Make fun of their images. When you do that you knock the legs out from under their “arguments” (which are really just feel-good symbols) and force them to defend their positons logically (which is our strong point.)

The left creates posters and logos for their politicians because it makes them larger than life. Ridiculing them brings the person down to earth.

Satire is a powerful weapon to bring the “mighty” down to earth.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

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LOVE it. Do you have any of those?

[Dudoight]

Excellent.....I agree!

‘ROFL!’ would be better than ‘LOL’

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Could you make one that says:

SLOW DOWN !

with the Obama O’s?

[xcamel]

Same company as the ‘lol’ sticker

[Utilizer]

Wow. I am trying to get ready for work, but I must say that was masterful. Glad I watched it, LOL. Now I keep imagining that Obambi logo in every three-letter combo!