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Shepard Fairey, famous for his street art and the famous Obama poster, spoke to the LA Times about the other Obama poster that was first seen around Los Angeles last week. "I don't agree with the political content of the poster," Fairey said of the poster that has Obama's face painted like The Dark Knight's Joker with the word "socialism" below. "They don't realize that Medicaid is a socialist program." Fairey and his circle of street artist contacts say they are clueless as to the street artist's identity. Have Republicans caught on? "It could be possible that a right-winger finally got hip to the idea that street art can get people's attention and be a valuable way to express a point of view," Fairey said. An LAist commenter last week was happy to see this kind of artwork. "Clearly the president is doing something right if he is inspiring the right wingers to go out and try to scare people into thinking that he is dooming us to a socialist future," wrote airickoo.
Shepard Fairey Opines on Obama Socialism Posters
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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It IS interesting that someone on the right found "street art" to be a viable way to raise awareness to their point of view...sort of...but I also think it's quite funny that this "street artist" would equate the left's attempts to standardize health-care are somehow equivalent to an imaginary psychopath.
Or maybe that does make sense, since bogymen and scare tactics are favored "weapons" of theirs.
Because the left never resorts to scare tactics, bogymen, submoronic imagery or hyperbole
Actually my favorite caracature of Bush was the Alfred E. Newman wearing a button that said "WORRY!"
I also love how every just assumes this was done by a "right-winger".
For we know it could've been a Ron Paul Libertarian as it looks more akin to their kind of handiwork.
There are also plenty of Blue Dogs who are non too happy with him right now.
Personally, I think it was just some bored high school kid with MacBook and a color printer.
I think it is only fair - unfortunately. Shepard Fairey dehumanized Barack Obama by turning him into a symbol for the 2008 election - vaulting himself to national fame in he process.
Now someone else is trying to do the same thing. Make a name for him or herself. The President has enough substance to outlast both sides of image makers.
Is socialism really that bad?
"For we know it could've been a Ron Paul Libertarian as it looks more akin to their kind of handiwork."
Yea right, Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party AREN'T right wing? About the only thing they aren't right wing about is marijuana and wars of agression.
"There are also plenty of Blue Dogs who are non too happy with him right now."
Yep plenty of Democrats still sucking at the insurance lobby's teat. They're getting paid to oppose the healthcare plan, because it would cost insurance companies billions if they had to compete with a public option.
...9/11 Truthers, Anarchists and the Patriot Act.
But other than that.
And Obama is in bed with Big Pharma....so what's your point?
Transparency! Most ethical Congress ever! Negotiations on CSPAN! ...LOL
It's no wonder Malkin's book is a bestseller.
history shows
those who lack
the capacity for rational analysis
ALWAYS lay ad hominem claim
that fickle subversion of sane cognition
is just "straight shooting common sense."
yet skewed vitriol is never "common sense"
no matter how many is repeated ad nauseum
bolstering dogma of either stripe
is yucky
idealizing harsh contrarianism as a juvenile deity
nary a synapse aimed at solution or possibility
well duh, *that's* the problem.
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