Shephard Fairey, Creator Of The Obama "Hope" Poster ... Mug Shot

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[Haiku Guy]

Meet Shepard Fairey.

The famed street artist who created the Barack Obama “Hope” poster is pictured here in a United States Marshals Service mug shot...

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[little jeremiah]

His father’s name was Strait Fairey??

So he comes from a line of sicko commie perverts. How quaint.

[StAnDeliver]

[Postman]

Stay with four letters, like “DOPE” or MOPE”

[Postman]

Great!

[ETL]

Shepard Fairey is the 'artist' (commie propagandist) who created the "Hope" and "Change" posters for Obama.

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Street artist Shepard Fairey, who designed Obama 'Hope' poster, arrested for graffiti in Boston

NY Daily News | February 7th 2009

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/02/07/2009-02-07_street_artist_shepard_fairey_who_designe.html
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From Shepard Fairey's official website (ObeyGiant.com):

Check it out! I got a thank you note from Barack Obama. If he is elected, maybe I have a get out of jail free card. All kidding aside, I’m honored to be acknowledged by someone so important to the future of our country. Also, the Obama campaign asked me to do a poster illustration for sale on their site. It should be out next week on barackobama.com.-Shepard
http://obeygiant.com/post/check-it-out
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Here is the '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. I am privileged to be a part of your artwork and proud to have your support. I wish you continued success and creativity.

Sincerely, Barack Obama.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html
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Other "images" by the commie Fairey...

by Shepard Fairey

http://www.duckywaddles.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=744
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"Stalin Lenin", Shepard Fairey,
limited edition silkscreen, signed
and numbered. 18"X24" *SOLD OUT*
Source: http://www.duckywaddles.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=429
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"Bush Hell" by Shepard Fairey

Source:
http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=bush&fulltext=Search

[Jeff Head]

How could this have happened?...how could his Hope fail when Obama is the sitting President.

Guess now that he has the logo, he doesn't need this "cracker" anymore. He joins a long list and crowd of useful; idiots discarded, ejected, and thrown under the bus by this admin.

THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA

[Secret Agent Man]

I see a new political movie out of all this: Mr. Smith goes to Shepard Fairey.

[DTogo]

In the image of Mao, just in front of his nose, are some Chinese characters - upside down!

Shephard Fairey = art FAIL.

[ETL]

Source for letter image: Fairey's own website (ObeyGiant.com):
http://obeygiant.com/post/check-it-out

If the image of the letter should 'vanish' from Fairey's website, try this link:
http://www.notcot.com/images/obama_letter-to-shepard-fairey.jpg

[ETL]

Portrait of Angela Davis by Obama artist Shepard Fairey:

Angela Davis

Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery (link given above)

Also here:
Angela Davis by Obey Giant, Shepard Fairey:
http://www.zimbio.com/Shepard+Fairey/articles/63/Angela+Davis+Obey+Giant+Shepard+Fairey

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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

[Haiku Guy]

Barack Obama
February 22, 2008

Shephard Fairey

Los Angeles, CA 90027

Dear Shepard,

I would like to thank you for using your talint in support of my campaign. The politicla messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can helpchange the status-quo.

Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign. I am privileged to be a part ofyour artwork and prooud to have your support. I wish you continued success and creativity.

Sincerely,

(signed Barack Obama)

Barack Obama

Obama ‘08
Obama for America (etc)

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Note how Obama actually endorses the defacing of stop signs in this letter. It is not too much of a BFD, but coming out against graffitti and defacing traffic signs should be a no-brainer.

[ETL]

Note how Obama actually endorses the defacing of stop signs in this letter.

Yes, but that's nothing compared to his endorsing the revolutionary communist images of propagandist Shepard Fairey. His images glorify such mass-murdering (communist) monsters as Mao and Stalin. And Obama wrote specifically:

"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. I am privileged to be a part of your artwork and proud to have your support. I wish you continued success and creativity.

Sincerely, Barack Obama.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html

[Gay State Conservative]

I certainly “hope” that none of his fellow prisioners try to get too “friendly” with him during his stay at the Crossbar Hotel.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—Bryan Ferry——

“Tuxedo rock” is a high-wire act, but somehow Ferry and Robert Palmer were able to pull it off.

The plus side? The ladies love it. At least according to my wife.

[ETL]

Note how Obama actually endorses the defacing of stop signs in this letter.

And defacing stop signs of all things can be a serious safety hazard, as opposed to many other types of public or private property defacing. Good point.

[ETL]

interesting

/s

[Prole]

What’s the charge? Child Porn or molestation?

It's actually quite alarming how communists, democrats and other assorted @ssholes gravitate toward sexual perversion.

[NFHale]

So...he’s now the Poster Child for the term “Useful Idiot”.

Good job there, Shep...enjoy your stay, compliments of the taxpaying public.

[Barney59]

Written like a true “Community Organizer”

[ichabod1]

I thought it said he was shot.

[the invisib1e hand]

Who is his attorney, Tinkerbelle?

bwahahhahahahahaha!

[PGalt]

Thanks for you posts. Much of the background on Fairey, I did not know. OUTSTANDING (as usual)!

[ETL]

You’re welcome, good FRiend. Glad you found it informative.

[RightOnline]

Perfect. Kudos.

[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.