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While the political establishment sought new and different ways to explain the gifts a Sen. Ted Kennedy endorsement brings to the Barack Obama's campaign, the Time Magazine's and the Salon's missed one key endorsement the winner of South Carolina's Democratic Primary received Monday: Shepard Fairey.
Fairey, the acclaimed poster artist and illustrator whose Obey Giant posters have plastered billboards and electrical boxes from Santa Monica to Highland Park, focused on Obama's progressivism in his endorsement.
I believe with great conviction that Barack Obama should be the next President. I have been paying close attention to him since the Democratic convention in 2004. I feel that he is more a statesman than a politician. He was against the war when it was an unpopular position (and Hillary was for the war at that time), Obama is for energy and environmental conservation. He is for healthcare reform.
So, what does this mean for Obama? While it doesn't carry the Kennedy mystique, Fairey's endorsement sends a message that this election is reaching all sectors of society. We are used to seeing posters from Fairey that are political ('Obey' is subversively anti-authoritarian), but rarely (but not never) has he created mainstream political messages for the masses.
Stirring up a passionate call to vote from the Los Angeles streets should tell us that the turnout we have seen in South Carolina and Nevada was not an aberration.
Fairey's Obama poster will go on sale Wednesday via his site. Proceeds from the 24x36 prints will go to produce more prints for a larger, statewide poster campaign.
For those keeping score: In the last three days, Obama has netted the endorsements of Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Toni Morrison, Sheperd Fairey, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who delivered the Democratic response to last night's State of the Union address, and some of the California Teachers Association, who had previously backed Hillary Clinton.
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Can the LAist writers please credit the source material of the posts, if that is the case, PLEASE? This one is almost verbatim from LAObserved.
Seriously, other sites reference that certain news or tidbits came from other places (with link to the orig story), and put their own spin on it. It is not shameful to do, but lifting whole posts and passing them as your own is.
This has happened a few times before, seeing almost the exact same thing a day earlier on other LA-centric sites and then seeing it appear here. I am not talking about general news, but iitems that are ONLY one other place, and that appear earlier. Just credit, that is all.
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I wrote this post last night, long before the LA Observed piece went live. It only appeared on LAist this morning so it could get full exposure.
I can only speak for myself and, in so doing, I will say that I have never "lifted" a post from another site. Where applicable, I have credited sources either through hyperlinks or [Credit] or "quotes".
There are noticeable differences between the LA Observed piece, which everyone can see here, and my story. They go into more detail about the actual poster and the art of Fairey, while I explore the politics of the endorsement.
Did you steal the title from the Declare Yourself blog as well?
http://declareyourselfnow.blogspot.com/2008/01/when-it-rains-it-pours.html
Both you and Kevin got it from www.lataco.com which was the first to report Shep's endorsement. It came over cityfeeds sometime last night around 6, at least that's the first I ever saw of it.
Both you and Kevin got it from www.lataco.com which was the first to report Shep's endorsement. It came over cityfeeds sometime last night around 6, at least that's the first I ever saw of it.
Oops, sorry for the double comment, reading it twice makes me realize it's pointless anyway, who knows where these things come first. I am curious though to know in general when this "story" broke.
The story broke on Shepard's website before a press release was sent out by Yosi Sergant who is the California Media Advisor at California for Barack Obama.
It did not come from LAO (nor was the story even close to being "lifted"), it did not come from LA Taco and the idiom "When It Rains, It Pours" did not come from Norman Lear's project, Declare Yourself.
As Jeremy said, we decided to schedule it in the morning rather than right away. If we published first, would the claim of "lifting" be sent over to them?
Please, stop bringing random negative energy to the comment section. If you have a problem, bring it to me via an e-mailing.
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It broke when I posted it on obeygiant.com!
The first blog to post about it was omgposters, then mcdevzone, then thelistnerd.
Well thats what the pings say anyways.