Posted on 08/04/2009 7:09:48 AM PDT by Schnucki
A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called 'mean-spirited and dangerous' by the U.S. President's supporters.
The image, which has been adopted by Mr Obama's critics, shows him wearing the white face paint and smudged red lips of the character most recently played by the late actor Heath Ledger. Beneath the picture reads the word 'socialism'.
The creator of the image remains unknown, but the website that first published the image crashed yesterday because so many had been attempting to view it. It has since been spotted in Los Angeles and Atlanta after it appeared in U.S. media.
The right-wing editor of the American Thinker website, Thomas Lifson, wrote today: 'It is starting.
'Open mockery of of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.'
But the President's supporters have condemned the image, calling it 'mean-spirited and dangerous.'
A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit said that depicting the president as demonic and a socialist 'goes beyond political spoofery.'
The image comes as the President faces criticism over his plans to create a $1trillion healthcare programme.
Republican chairman Michael Steele first used the word 'socialism' in relation to Mr Obama two weeks ago as he slammed the President's attempts to push Congress into passing the healthcare reforms.
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I think this Obama-Joker is brilliant. This type of culture jamming is just great IMO. I printed a bunch up myself and have been putting them on telephone poles around where I live.
I would encourage everyone to print some of these posters and place them around where you live. I’d love to see this get legs and really make the news.
By the way , I was at a friends house and he had on channel 2 CBS new on TV. You CAN NOT BELIEVE the MSM . You would think you were living in a different world . Their version of the news is TOTAL BULLSH*T..I never watch TV for the most part. No wonder people are in the dark about Obama , the MSM is complete fantasy.
like I said...sounds like a threat to me...
You know, those Bush-as-chimp cartoons were pretty effective. Unfair, but effective. But Bush-as-Joker just doesn’t make any sense. It just doesn’t work.
Whereas, Obama-as-Joker is instantly recognizable and extremely effective.
Obama-as-chimp doesn’t work because it immediately strikes the viewer as racist—never mind that they did the exact same thing to Bush. It can’t be effectively used against as Obama.
But Obama-as-Joker is perfect.
“Obie couldn’t take 1% of the ridicule the last 4 Republican presidents were subjected to. Little boy needs to grow up.”
I watch Morning Joe. On today’s show, they mentioned that a memo from Axelrod to Obama in 2006 contained admonishment about Obama being thin skinned, and wanting everyone to like him.
I hope this stuff increases, I’m going to enjoy watching The One unravel while his apologists spin themselves sick trying to save him.
The best thing that could happen to America right now is for Obama to begin to lose his composure due to criticism, and for Americans to see who and what his closest supporters are really all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tW5LfFXARI&feature=related
Jokerman - Bob Dylan - Infidels
I printed a bunch up myself and have been putting them on telephone poles around where I live.
That’s what we need EXCELLENT ! Kids will love this too and maybe it will become a pop icon and get people to think a but too.
I love the explaination on that picture.
Shove this stuff down the throats of our “liberal friends”. They won’t understand, but the turnabout will feel good enough to justify it.
No, keep the Joker for Obama!
Make Biden the Riddler maybe, but let’s not dilute this very effective iconography by plastering it over the entire Left wing.
If it follows the big city pattern, it's a place to put relatives and assorted bag men on the payroll for the purpose of having public funds kicked back to the current set of ruling thugs.
Tit for Tat
deal with it you commies.
THey need to use that word every day. THIS is SOCIALIZM people. This is what it looks like, and this is what it feels like. It’s never been successful, anywhere it’s been tried, and these people who have been being jokers, hiding behind masks who are now in the open need to be RUN OUT of Washington en masse, and a new congress needs to repeal EVERYTHING. I would propose Roman Proscription for these jokers, but that’s just me. I think I’ll start calling them all jokers. It’s a great word and now we’ll all know what we mean by it.
There are a bunch of them. Some of the edge could be taken off by switching to the
Cesar Romero Joker from the vintage '66 Batman, who has a druggie laugh that fits
with the current insane policies, or seeing if they can squeeze Pelosi into Julie Newmar's Catwoman costume.
It might be a tight fit for Nancy but 15 to 20 minutes a day on a government treadmill might do the trick.
But this one with Pres Bush from VANITY FAIR July 29, 2008 is OK?
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html
Read the remarks...
I personnel do not care one way or another about either “Joker” face..
All I can say to the left is: you showed us how to play the game...Paybacks a Bit*h!
Here's the difference - the Bush "mean stuff" was put out by the liberal MSM Establishment. The printed it up, showed it on their TV shows and wallowed in it. It had the POWER of the establishment behind it.
The Joker picture was designed by ONE person and stuck up on an underpass. Citizens picked up on it because it had a ring of truth to it.
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