Obama Joker

Jules Crittenden has lots on the Obama Joker poster; Jim Treacher has what must be Dick Cheney as Darth Vader in a Batman suit conducting an enhanced interrogation of the Joker.

Comments

[matt]

it's funny because the LA Weekly immediately equated it with Shepard Fairey's Obama "Hope" poster. Then they call the "Joker" poster racist.

Fairey has made millions of dollars and a enfant terrible reputation in what passes for the art world by ripping off iconic Socialist Realist images that his dippy Left fans adore.

Palestinian brandishing AK's, Chinese police officers, Huey Newton, Fidel, Lenin and the Vietcong are all part of his oevre. Bush came in for special criticism with images of him as Hitler, a vampire, and a dunce.

All a part of the hypocrisy of the Left.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Someone will have to enlighten me.

What exactly does the Barry as Socialist Joker thing mean?
Was the Joker a socialist?
Is Barry a Heath Ledger fan?
The Joker was never actually a comedian but an insane criminal mastermind, so does that mean Barry is a psychotic arch criminal?

[matt]

my own Shepard Fairey homage. LUN

[matt]

LUN

[matt]

try it again

[Porchlight]

I'm afraid your LUN isn't working, matt - I think it just needs a .html at the end. I added that and it brought up your image. Nice work!

[Porchlight]

Oops, posted too soon! ;)

[Extraneus]

May I?

[Dave (in MA)]

Ingnatz, The comparison between Obama and the Joker as explained at confederateyankee:

One embraces terrorists and madmen, is dedicated to anarchy and the destruction of capitalist society, and sends the population fleeing in horror from his creations.

The other is a fictional character played by the late Heath Ledger.

Over a year ago, Lileks showed that Obama's Chicago and the Dark Knight/Joker's Gotham City are one and the same.

[Neo]

The horror .. the horror LUN

[Extraneus]

I think it's the dead eyes and the blood-stained evil smile, representing the essence of socialsm, Ig.

[Extraneus]

Btw, thanks for recommending Hoffer's "The True Believer." Great read.

Just from one page (talking about the appeal of mass movements and in particular the desire for substitutes):

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, he race or his holy cause.

...

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

...

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice the utmost humility, is boundless.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

--I think it's the dead eyes and the blood-stained evil smile, representing the essence of socialsm, Ig.--

I guess. But, like Carter, I suspect Barry is going to seem a little closer to the Alfred E Newman end of the scale by the time he's done.
Maybe Hit or someone could gin one up for us.

[Extraneus]

I like how it's unbalanced in the frame. It already evokes dissonance.

Unquestionably great art, along the lines of the Apple Hillary commercial. My compliments to the artiste.

[Extraneus]

Paste it on every telephone pole.

[narciso]

The opening scene, which ends with the bank vp, carrying the sawed off shotgun seemed odd, until you discover it was a mob bank.

[Pofarmer]

There's a birthday celebration picture of Obama up on Drudge. The iconography surrounding this guy is just creepy, wish I knew how to post it.
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[Cecil Turner]

Don't really get the artwork, "socialism" doesn't really fit, and hated the movie. But it seems to me it works much better as an illicitly-posted flyer. I think it's partly the implication of lawlessness, and partly because it's reminiscent of Fairey's arrest, and pokes fun of the various Obama merchandise and artwork.

[Porchlight]

Happy Birthday Barack, born 48 years ago today in Kenya.

Just kidding! I'm not really wishing him a happy birthday.

Okay, he probably wasn't born in Kenya either.

[Jack is Back!]

There are now">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/04/president-trumps-candidates-north-korean-mission/'>now three jokers in every deck!

[Janet]

Funny Porchlight!

When the brouha started about the "racist" Obama joker poster vs. the Bush vampire/monkey/nazi magazine cover a commenter(Hammer) @ Ace said..."I'm beginning to think that these progressives/liberals adhere to a double standard and are fairly thin skinned." I believe he is right!

[Ann]

For Pofarmer:

[Extraneus]

I like it because it's a disturbing image of Obama, one of the few of him without a halo, and will stick in people's minds. The title is just icing on the subliminal cake.

Does that make me a bad capitalist?

[Extraneus]

In fact, I'd like another poster like this for every one of these halo pics.

[Ann]

This is just creepy!

Caption:
People gather in front of the World's Largest Beaded Photo Mosaic of U.S. President Barack Obama on display in front of the White House in Washington, August 3, 2009. The project, created with over 372,600 beads by 1000 fourth grade students from across the U.S., was made in honor of Obama's 48th birthday which will be celebrated tomorrow.

[Janet]

Hey, I'm gonna need some kind of stimulus check to cover the postage for all the letters I'm sending my Senators and my Rep. lately. I've got to constantly beg those nuts to leave my family alone, and to quit taking our money.

[narciso]

I was reminded by a poster on Qando, of another metaphorically apt scene, from the scene,the Joker blowing up a hospital

[Thomas Collins]

OFF TOPIC ALERT

So, Bill Clinton receives an assignment to bring two women back home with him and succeeds. No surprise there!!! :-))) See LUN.

[Original MikeS]

Typecasting?

[Sue]

Hannity is reporting that Obama has fired Patrick Fitzgerald.

[Dave (in MA)]

"Why so socialist?" bumper stickers

[Porchlight]

Wow, Sue.

[matt]

there are some very disturbing images that I will never be able to get out of my head now. Neo's link is probably the most effective form of birth control we'll see in our lifetimes. The International man of mystery poster with Michelle's head just looks completely dissonant. I'm scarred forever....maybe I can go on the dole now.....Barry promised to pay my mortgage, didn't he?

[Pofarmer]

Hannity is reporting that Obama has fired Patrick Fitzgerald.

Wouldn't that be a tad obvious?

[centralcal]

Sue, does he reference where he got the info on Fitz's firing?

[narciso]

'these goggles, they do nothing"

[clarice]

If true, that'll be a real dilemma for folks like empty wheel, won't it?

[Dave (in MA)]

Wouldn't that be something normally reserved for a Friday afternoon news dump?

[centralcal]

Clarice - apparently he was "promoted" and FDL is ecstatic.

[centralcal]

Porchlight has a link on the Varsity thread to FDL and the details on the promotion.

[Dave (in MA)]

I just visited SH's website for the first time.

Jesus Hannity Christ, what an eyesore. It looks like the TV screen from Idiocracy.

[Dave (in MA)]

Apparently today is also the birthday of lovely and talented journalist Helen Thomas.

[Rob Crawford]

The real gem in LA Weakly's faux outrage is their earlier fawning coverage of a "Sarah Palin Effigy Kit" that came with a noose.

[Rob Crawford]

Apparently today is also the birthday of lovely and talented journalist Helen Thomas.

Who? None of the adjectives you used ("lovely", "talented", "journalist") apply to the only Helen Thomas I'm aware of.

[Dave (in MA)]

"Government-Run Healthscare" (Obama as Joker as Nurse)

[Janet]

speaking of ridiculing the Obama admin. - I keep waiting for some new bills with Tim Geithner's signature on them so I can write TAX CHEAT on them in red ink

[PeterUK.]

" The comparison between the Joker and Obama as explained at confederateyankee:

One embraces terrorists and madmen, is dedicated to anarchy and the destruction of capitalist society, and sends the population fleeing in horror from his creations.

The other is a fictional character played by Barry Dunham."

[Dave (in MA)]

I keep waiting for some new bills with Tim Geithner's signature on them so I can write TAX CHEAT on them in red ink

I love it. I just checked my wallet...nothing. Maybe you need to check the larger bills.

[Dave (in MA)]

The other is a fictional character played by Barry Dunham.

Screenwriter: David Axelrod
Executive Producer: Rahm Emmanuel
Casting: George Soros
Best Boy: Chris Matthews

[Parking Lot]

((so does that mean Barry is a psychotic arch criminal?))

no it means that he put on a mask and played a big joke on America

[Elliott]

Dave (in MA),

Where is the "From an original story by" credit?

[Sue]

He was promoted? I know Hannity said Obama fired him.

[centralcal]

Sue: I am at work - all I know is what I am seeing posted here. Fitz was appointed to some AG post as an interim placeholder.

Clarice, cboldt, and others discuss it on the Varsity thread.

[JM Hanes]

Here's a link to FDL's source on Patrick Fitzgerald. Just in case you don't want to go there.

Frankly, I rather doubt Fitzgerald has actually been booted from Chicago -- and certainly not for this job. The niche website which eventually picked up the story on July 30th reported that the apotheosis of Fitzgerald on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee is temporary:

Fitzgerald will be keeping the seat warm for B. Todd Jones, who, as we reported here, is slated to chair the committee if confirmed. Jones, the nominee for the U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, has broad support and could see a vote on his nomination in the full Senate before the August recess.

The newly acclaimed Roving Ambassador to the "U.S. attorney community" has only been made interim Chair of a Committee he already sat on. Looks like there weren't a lot of choices, when that outfit "has dwindled in size as Bush-era appointees have headed for the exit." That's probably why this promotion has yet to cause a stir outside the FITZ! "community." In what is surely this week's Irony of Unintended Ironies, "MainJustice" observes that:

The AGAC meetings have been constructive, Justice officials say, but it stands to reason that Holder would prefer a committee of Obama appointees, vetted and interviewed by his department, to help him put policy in motion.

If you did want to sideline Fitzgerald without a stink, however, this is a perfect template for future use. When you can't stonewall him like an I.G., and you can't outright fire a guy looking into the sale of your Senate seat, you can still promote him right out of Chicago. Then you announce the "high profile" switch in an internal memo to his former colleagues from the U.S. Attorneys' Executive Director. Sweeten the lefty pot with a replacement once fired by GWB, and the ones who don't actually swallow the spin will play along nicely anyway.

What I'm really wondering about (still) is the urgency of the Blago arrest, given the subsequent black hole of silence.

[JM Hanes]

Elliott: Here ya go!

From an original story by: William Ayers.

[Sue]

So he is no longer the prosecutor in the Blago case? What about Rezko?

[clarice]

Sue, There's no indication this temporary appointment to chair a committee he already sat on removes him from the prosecution. I think Hannity erred as far as I can tell

[Sue]

It sure looks like it. Or I heard him wrong.

[Jane]

Holy cow. I can't believe I am worried about Fitzgerald keeping his job. IIRC we predicted Obama would get rid of him by promoting him.

We shall see.

[Porchlight]

It seems like the Chicago papers would be all over it if he was no longer going to be the prosecutor in the Blago case.

I don't think you heard him wrong, Sue - I did a twitter search right after you posted and many others were asking the same question.

[Jimbo Bob]

It's decadent...
It's shocking...
It's urban commando politics...
It's political art...
It's a statement...
It's free speech...
It's payback
It's expsoing the hypocrisy of the left

I LOVE IT !!!
VIVA LA RESISTANCE !!!!

Buy the T-shirt on Zazzle !!!!
http://www.zazzle.com/aksarben

[burt]

The Joker doesn't really fit Obama, nor does it fit "socialism."

Missed opportunity. Obama as "Two-Face" with a "hypocrite" caption would have been more apt.

[Rob Crawford]

The Joker doesn't really fit Obama, nor does it fit "socialism."

You're over-thinking it.

It pokes fun at Obama. It casts him in a menacing light, rather than the exclusively reverent one we've seen up to this point. It plays on a well-known character who is both a buffoon and destructive.

It's also -- despite the best efforts of the left -- immune from being cast as "racist". It's the same imagery that was used for Bush; certainly turn-about is fair play? If they push harder on the claims it's "racist" they're pushing on Obama's weakest spot -- his racism -- the same one exposed by the Gates affair.

Don't set aside a tool because it seems counter-intuitive. Instead, learn to use it.