Posted on 09/13/2009 5:31:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ever since Glenn Beck took to the Fox television airwaves recently to offer a bizarre reading of the art commissioned 70 years ago for New York's Rockefeller Center, I've been puzzled by the graphic design element of his 9-12 Project. The logo (pictured) for his affiliated groups' rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend derives from century-old communist, socialist and other left-wing designs.
Those were the motifs he railed against in his Rockefeller rant.
For the logo, three raised and clenched red fists are superimposed over the U.S. Capitol. Obviously the bloody fist represents the tea-baggers' themes of unity and resistance.
But do Beck; the corporate-sponsored astro-turf group, FreedomWorks, headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas); the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights; the private-property group, the National Assn. of Rural Landowners; and the rest of the march sponsors know the symbol's origins?
Unity and resistance are what the fist represented in 1917, when it was first employed by the Industrial Workers of the World, a union organization founded by socialists. And in the 1940s, when it stood for various nations' communist party organizations.
That's also what it meant when it was revived in the 1960s, appearing as a symbol for the SDS, as well as anti-war and feminist movements. It was the basis for the black-power salute given by John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. And today, it's the symbol for the Progressive Labor Party (pictured), a political outfit whose website says it "fights to smash capitalism."
Turnout for the 9-12 Project's Saturday march on Washington was a bust; 30,000 protesters signed up in advance (MSNBC reporter David Shuster tweeted that D.C. park police called that figure "generous").
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
excellent response... i especially like the above... such resolve!
That’s the way I look at it.
Yeah...I’m not a fan of the logo in question. Perhaps it was designed in jest as a mockery. Reminds me of this:
http://majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/comments/http_majorityrightscom_indexphp_49331
Given the source I’m surprised he didn’t think it was a gay thing. Is Christopher up to three fists yet?
That’s Jordan Knight.
What??? Are the commies gonna sue Beck for copyright infringement? If so....
Beck is our new Karl Rove! (bloody genius & magnificent bastard)
They must be pi**ed about the Obozo symbol reference to Nazis. This is hilarious.
Absolute, complete, total Tools.
;-/
He has fabulous hair.
Can we start a pool regarding when the LA Times will declare bankruptcy?
Hmmm, should we send Christopher Knight a link to the People’s Cube or Protest Warrior? Or would we be liable for his head exploding?
IIRC, the Roman salute consisted of the upraised right arm with the palm out and fingers joined. This was used by American schoolchildren to salute the U.S. flag up until 1918 or so. Of course that gesture was later illegitimized.
Roman soldiers acknowledged a superior by striking the chest over the heart with the right hand, depicted several ways.
BTW, veterans and soldiers in civvies may now salute the flag at present arms, instead of placing the hand over heart.
It might explode. Is that a real name or was he a Knight Rider fan?
No wonder LA Times (as well as other dinosaur media readership are down. Lame, inaccurate birdcage liner passing as journalism. Knight comes up with conspiracy theory about the 9-12 Logo (seems libs wear tinfoil,too), ,calls FreedomWorks an astroturf organization, and then quotes such a reliable source as David Schuster for crowd estimates?
Knight is a waste of bandwidth; he is spam...totally irrelevant.
According to the map of the Mall between the Capital and the Washington Monument it can hold 1 million. The crowds were past the Monument.
They don’t “get” Beck so no surprise they wouldn’t “get” his logo... if they heard the music on his show they would really have a cow.
See just how insidious this monster we fight is?
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