Posted on 08/06/2009 10:18:53 AM PDT by AJKauf
Posters started appearing in Los Angeles depicting Obama as the Joker with the word “socialism” below his face. The image quickly spread throughout the internet, gaining knee-jerk liberal condemnation and making people ask things like “What does Obama have to do with the Joker?” and “What does the Joker have to do with socialism?” and “Is this racist somehow? I’m pretty sure it has to be racist.”
Well, as it’s my job as some guy on the internet, I will definitively answer all of these questions.
First off, it’s worth looking at whether the poster is racist. Liberals seem pretty certain it is. An LA Weekly blogger commented that “the only thing missing is a noose.” Now, you might be scratching your head and saying that the only people who would call this racist are brain-dead liberals who shriek “racism!” at every criticism about Obama as an alternative to thinking and only cause more problems by confusing the issue of racism and should thus be chased out of society and forced to live in the sewers, only emerging at night to feed on garbage and bugs.
And while that’s quite fair and probably true, we should still give the possibility of racism a fair hearing. Don’t you remember the long, racist history of black people being compared to the Joker?...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Someone should ask Vanity Fair what Boosh had to do with the Joker.
Not at all. The Joker was a powerful character with tons of charisma.
Without his teleprompter, Obama is just a dull professor.
Never ever trust the Joker ...
Make that a duh...duh...duh...dull professor!
No, he is not the Joker.
He is “Chance the Gardener” from Being There.
No record of a background and is morphed into anything anyone wants him to be.
Only he is not as harmless.
Personally, I think he’s more like Catwoman. Devious, untrustworthy, and essentially a big puss.
One way they are in common:
“and in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully didn’t understand.” Alfred on how the Joker came to power.
Ironicly, I heard this exact phrased used by a historian describing how Hitler came to power.
You know, I’m old enough to remember those days back before the civil rights movement when they used to take a black fellow and dress him up as “The Joker,” “Batman,” or even “Robin,” and then parade him around the town square. Those were dark times the likes of which we need to move beyond! [end sarcasm]
An interesting and informative comment at the link:
“1. misanthopicus:
Limiting things at the Joker affair – for years Los Angeles was pestered/ defaced by a deluge of political posters by one Robbie Conal (freway entrances, mail boxes, you name the places – check on the web for him), posters uniformly attacking W, Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney.
The action was widely approved by the liberal media, described as anything between freedom of expression to progress inducing political activism and was fawninly covered by LA Times and LA Weekly (hasn’t Conal got a McArthur prize yet?)
Why are the same liberals now incensed by this Joker take on Soetoro?”
“...Obama’s methods for destroying everything are a bit more ham-fisted,... .”
I’m pretty sure “ham-fisted” is racist, too, isn’t it?
Well... .
When Eartha Kitt played Catwoman, only racists complained about it.
He a smoker, a toker, and an admitted coker.
:))
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