Posted on 02/25/2010 11:02:25 PM PST by pissant
The blogosphere is abuzz over conservatives' charges that a logo being used by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency looks very much like a fusion of the Muslim crescent moon and star and the Obama campaign logo. Some folks even detected a similarity to the Iranian Space Agency logo.
"New Missile Defense Agency Logo Causes Online Commotion," said the headline on Drudge. Indeed it did. Our pal Frank Gaffney, writing on his blog, expressed alarm. "The Obama administration's determined effort to reduce America's missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare," wrote Gaffney, a senior Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. But "a just-unveiled symbolic action suggests, however, that something even more nefarious is afoot."
Lefty bloggers insisted that the logo meant nothing of the sort, suggesting the right-wingers must have found some particularly high-grade hallucinogens. Well, we thought the conservatives had the better of the argument.
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What doubt can there be? The design elements are so close and the colors are exactly the same.
As a FReeper said elsewhere, it looks like some gay superhero’s belt buckle.
Not American. It’s Commie meets Muzzie.
The hidden undertone {intended, or NOT} threatens to Attack the star & crescent Folk.
Supposedly the redesign started three years ago, even before the Obama campaign.
That may be true, but I’d bet that what they were working on three years ago looked nothing like this. In any case, three years to redesign a logo? Even for a bureaucracy, that’s a stretch. They may have decided to do it three years ago, but I doubt that the design was chosen at that time.
Bambi’s campaign was great at whippping out things like faux Presidential seals and logos, and I have no doubt that his graphic artists were the ones that turned out this monstrosity. And I do think it refers both to Islam and to Obama.
It also looks like the outline of knuckles of a fist on the bottom left. It always concerns me when a leader (esp. one with an ego like Obama’s) starts making everything look like it’s HIS. Freakin’ propaganda pushing scum, IMHO.
Step away from the logo!!
I saw a bit of the fist in there, too. That’s a big Marxist/black power symbol, and I think Obama does try to evoke it whenever he can.
And this is a bureaucracy that isn't burdened with fraud, waste and hundreds of millions of people demanding services. Wait until they are in charge of health care. You will get your 2015 version of flu vaccine sometime around 2029.
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