Posted on 08/04/2009 5:31:33 PM PDT by Pyro7480
CNN correspondent Jeanne Moos devoted an entire segment to the viral Obama as the Joker image on Tuesday’s Situation Room, and zeroed in on man-on-the-street reactions to it, all of whom expressed leftist horror at the picture. Moos herself suggested that “maybe it’s time to give the Joker joke a rest.” NewsBusters.org made a brief appearance during her segment [audio from the entire segment is available here].
The correspondent, who is known for her light and sometimes humorous reports for CNN, chronicled how the Photoshop-style image of the president as Batman’s nemesis is spreading like wildfire on conservative websites, including the Drudge Report and NewsBusters. Throughout the report, she played clips of five men and six women whom the correspondent approached on a New York City street for their reaction to the Joker image. Unsurprisingly, all of the New Yorkers reacted negatively, from an “Oh my goodness” to “shame on them.” The last man stated that he was reminded of racist black-face comedy from the past, and the last woman even shouted, “It’s a right-wing spin- it’s disgraceful, and you shouldn’t even bring any attention to it.”
The only conservative reaction to the Joker image that Moos featured was a clip from Rush Limbaugh, who remarked that “it’s becoming cool to make fun of Obama.”
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"CNN correspondent Jeanne Moos devoted an entire segment to the viral Obama as the Joker image on Tuesday’s Situation Room, and zeroed in on man-on-the-street reactions to it, all of whom expressed leftist horror at the picture. Moos herself suggested that “maybe it’s time to give the Joker joke a rest.”
Then again...maybe not.
Have Batman and Commissioner Gordon been notified yet?
The Dark Knight, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 9, 2008.
I can see her as Ratso Rizzo, but she'd also be a candidate for a couple of Dick Tracy characters (if you go back far enough) -- Rhodent and Flyface.
Good-post BTTT. Thanks!
Maybe, But first we’ll be taking $1,000,000 bills to the store to buy a stale loaf of bread... if there are any on the shelves.
This will be labeled as a hate crime very soon.
Of course CNN wants it to go away - their lips are glued to his butt...
In the poster, Obama LOOKS WHITE.
The men who played the joker have always been white.
Liberals see the poster and are frightened that Obama is WHITE.
They are afraid on a subliminal level that Obama might be a white man like George Bush - MAYBE A CONSERVATIVE WHITE MAN ( CAN YOU HEAR THE LIBERAL SCREAMING?)))
Bump
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