In Portland Oregon, on election day, there thousands of posters that went up with Obama's mug with the word 'Obey' underneath. Needless to say it got about 20 seconds of media coverage.
Posted on 08/01/2009 5:41:49 PM PDT by Baladas
Have you seen this poster?
Apparently, it's beginning to appear in odd places in Los Angeles, but nobody seems to know who's responsible for it.
Radio host Tammy Bruce posted some pictures of this odd creation at her blog Saturday morning (h/t Pamela Geller) leading me to investigate further.
At this point, all I could find on the subject was an April 25 article from Bedlam Magazine:
A poster of Barack Obama in Heath Ledger-style Joker make-up with the legend 'Socialism' beneath it has been popping up recently on surfaces around L.A. It does not appear to be in the same category as the many benign take-offs on the Shepard Fairey 'Hope' poster, such as the one by Australian James Lillis (more of a straightforward spoof that merely substituted a Shepardized image of Heath Ledger as Joker on the Obama poster).
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
LOVE this!
Liagra!!!
perhaps from here:
http://zarathoestra.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/a-short-history-of-socialism/
“I just saw it near Van Nuys when I picked up my GF. They were on Victory...”
Proud VNHS grad...but I have nothing whatsoever to do with these posters...wish I had, though...very clever...
Smart. I think we need to put the pressure on these Marxist bastards...that’s what is killing him in the polls...get the Grey Panthers and the Blue Dogs out there against him next time...
Very Shepard Fairey. Shepard became famous doing exactly this, starting a viral campaign with his “obey” works being printed and plastered up in cities all over.
I don’t think so. There are all kinds of political posters all over LA ... all of them from Liberals.
If anything, people ignore them because they are inured. But they are not offensive IMO.
“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical. He can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world...BURN.”
No problemo. I’ve seen my Obama-Pee Wee Herman on several web sites. I love it when my stuff goes viral.
A nice play on the poster I see all over LA ... especially in Silver Lake.
You nailed it!!
upper left has a date that looks like October 23, 200?
this could be hugh and series
I remember !!!!
I give you all the credit...
To the contrary, I think it is very clever.
With luck, it will become the icon of how we remember 0bama.
Not a good thing to joke about. Somebody is going to have the secret service looking for them. The face painted on the picture depicts somebody cut ear to ear; black dalia style
Liberals can find racism in anything.
Liberal: it is racist! it’s a reverse blackface and therefore the overtly obvious subliminal effect is to portray Obama as a white man, and we all know everyone hates a white man! well okay, maybe it’s just us liberals who hate white men, but whatever, it’s still racist (the poster that is, not hating white guys).
Good poster!
Liberals are EMOTIONAL and THIN SKINNED.
This will piss off the black “messiah”.
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