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Glenn Beck's '9-12' Logo Based on Communist and Socialist Designs
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/13/09 | Christopher Knight

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 912project; art; captainobvious; commievote; communist; duh; glennbeck; logo; media; parody; teaparty
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To: Free America52
You have awakened a sleeping giant, and I hate to tell you, but you are going to lose.

excellent response... i especially like the above... such resolve!

81 posted on 09/13/2009 6:12:19 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: LongElegantLegs

That’s the way I look at it.


82 posted on 09/13/2009 6:13:30 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: nickcarraway

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


83 posted on 09/13/2009 6:15:36 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Boycott Obama TV!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Given the source I’m surprised he didn’t think it was a gay thing. Is Christopher up to three fists yet?


84 posted on 09/13/2009 6:16:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: goodwithagun

That’s Jordan Knight.


85 posted on 09/13/2009 6:19:02 PM PDT by DHSMostWanted (Tell your grandparents you love them.)
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To: nickcarraway

What??? Are the commies gonna sue Beck for copyright infringement? If so....

Beck is our new Karl Rove! (bloody genius & magnificent bastard)


86 posted on 09/13/2009 6:20:37 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: nickcarraway
Turnout for the 9-12 Project's Saturday march on Washington was a bust

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87 posted on 09/13/2009 6:21:15 PM PDT by GnL
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To: tommyboy

They must be pi**ed about the Obozo symbol reference to Nazis. This is hilarious.


88 posted on 09/13/2009 6:21:23 PM PDT by calex59 (FUBO, we want our constitution back and we intend to get it!)
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To: manc
I just love how real Americans bring out the absolute worst in the Liberal Tools.

Absolute, complete, total Tools.

;-/

89 posted on 09/13/2009 6:31:48 PM PDT by Gargantua (Sarah Palin: The only Republican to take on Zer0bonehead and WIN!)
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To: kcvl

He has fabulous hair.


90 posted on 09/13/2009 6:42:00 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: nickcarraway
A liberal hit piece from a liberal socialist rag posted by a liberal troll probably from DUmmies..
91 posted on 09/13/2009 6:50:09 PM PDT by 3IDVET (REMEMBER TF-RANGER THE MOG 3/4 OCT 93 FIRST BATTLE IN THE WOT, HEROES ALL)
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To: nickcarraway

Can we start a pool regarding when the LA Times will declare bankruptcy?


92 posted on 09/13/2009 6:50:34 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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To: GeronL

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?


93 posted on 09/13/2009 6:56:47 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: LongElegantLegs

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.


94 posted on 09/13/2009 7:00:05 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are lubricated in pig grease!")
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To: Jabba the Nutt

It might explode. Is that a real name or was he a Knight Rider fan?


95 posted on 09/13/2009 7:08:20 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


96 posted on 09/13/2009 7:17:47 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Army Air Corps

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.


97 posted on 09/13/2009 7:20:53 PM PDT by RC2 (Our Failure is Not an Option)
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To: SkipW
Did Peter Brady really write this or is that just a joke? Last time I saw him he had some lady dragging him around by his nose. He's a sorry excuse for a man. I know he was probably pretty desperate for a woman but that doesn't excuse him for acting like eunuch.
98 posted on 09/13/2009 7:21:22 PM PDT by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: Renegade

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.


99 posted on 09/13/2009 7:22:22 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: nickcarraway
You know, I saw that episode of Beck's on Rockefeller Center and I was struck as we marched down Pennsylvania Ave. yesterday as we passed by the Federal Trade Commission by a statue in front of it. http://andrewprokos.com/photos/washington-dc/federal-trade-commission-horse-statue/

See just how insidious this monster we fight is?

Μολὼν λάβε


100 posted on 09/13/2009 7:23:17 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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