Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles
By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
August 1, 2009 - 20:06 ET
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).
Here are Tammy’s snaps:
Makes you wonder who’s behind this.
I’m going to go and buy a new printer in a little while, I have not used mine in months and it won’t work.
Lets see if we can get some more hi-res pics of this, also I would love to see some form of an animated version where he slowly transforms.