Enough?
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 ...
That was very quick!
I knew Glen Beck was a closet commie! I just knew it!
BLACK POWER!!!!
The fear is palpable. Nerves have been struck and possibly severed.
A similar event occurred on the Little Big Horn. Will the Joker’s last stand occur when Reconciliation fails?
Every time Glen’s commie Manchurian controller shows that Queen of Diamond logo, Glen rips the left a new one. :)
Go hard, Alinskyite. We’re coming for you...
Stopped reading right there. This guy's nothing more than an ObaHamas shill. Expecting anything reasonable or truthful from this numpty is an exercise in futility.
It's just more foaming at the mouth by a rabid Lib.
Enough?
Irony: A liberal far-left socialist leaning rag attempting to pin the Communist and Socialist pin on Beck. Lulz!
The MSM is falling into a generational chasm. It is to late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjvc6baor8
Went on, full from that intersection to the capitol for a long time. Hundreds of thousands at any one moment...but it kept streaming that way.
You forgot Mighty Mouse.
That is a gamer’s T-shirt that has been around for awhile; This guy needs to realize that if WE are the ‘teabaggers’, that makes them the teabag-ees...Which is frikkin’ hilarious.
Wasn’t it also how the Romans saluted?
Good Point.
Power to the people.
Uh...liberal people that is.
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