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").
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I left a comment, but they are moderated, no doubt will not see the light of day.
So do the Neocoms at the LA Slimes think Glenn is ripping them off, or what?
From wikipedia. They have not yet added the Obamamessiah as an example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
LOLOLOLOLOL
Somebody should tell this bozo that he can't get away with making up news any more.
If thats the Case why didnt they cover the Communist Rally?
“We are taking the country back, and the left will never, ever be in power again.”
The electorate seems to love the left. It will not give them up. The magic fifty per cent is there for them and a few percent of die-hard Democrat “independents” will carry them, again. (The left has convinced the “electorate” that brilliance is theirs when they pull the lever for Democrats.)
IMHO
Great photo. Real protest Fail, right? Some idiot lawyer on Fox and Friends this am was repeating the Axelrod line that Tea Party goers don’t represent real voters, compared us to Code Pink! A crowd filling blocks and blocks of streets in DC is that same thing as five women in pink shirts, not to mention to protests all over the country and the entire month of townhall meetings? The nerve of these people. They’re like a child who covers his own eyes and declares, “I’m invisible!”.
This appears to be another wet dream created in Jayson Blair’s hot tub for really doped out wannabe oped writers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339199/posts
Public Trust in Media Accuracy & Fairness Plunges, Liberal v Conservative Bias Gap at 28 Points
NewsBusters ^ | September 14, 2009 | Brent Baker
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 6:22:15 AM by Zakeet
The publics assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, embargoed for release at 11 PM EDT Sunday night, discovered.
The survey, of 1,506 adults conducted in late July, found nearly three-quarters (74%) say news organizations tend to favor one side in dealing with political and social issues, up 21 points from 53 percent 24 years ago, while just 18% say they deal fairly with all sides. The percent who perceive the media as liberal versus conservative remains very lopsided, though the difference has increased by 7 points — from 40 percent vs. 19 percent in 1985 to 50 percent vs. 22 percent now, a 28 point split.
This is an excerpt please go to the FR Link for more info:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339199/posts
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Did I miss the memo that it must be illegal for corporations to have free speech rights?
And of course my clan crest has raised fist as well ———gosh what does it all mean????
nah worse than that —— guy has been nominated for nobel’s in art criticism. Has a master’s in art history...blahblah blah
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