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Obama as the Joker

This wonderful image has been cropping up all over the internet and on posters in the meat-world, originating in L.A. Needless to say, the liberals have their knickers in a bunch. The Anchoress has a wonderful examination and analysis of the comments:

Obama as the Joker
For reasons that baffle me, a big deal is being made over someone photoshopping the president�s face into a representation of The Joker from the The Dark Knight. The LA Weekly, eager to play the racism card says �the only thing missing is the noose.�

Whaaa?

Now, I can see if someone had taken a picture of President Obama and photoshopped whiteface for spite and without context, (or, for that matter, blackface as done here to Michael Steele) then one might have a credible case for crying �racism.�

But this is making a clear reference to a known fictional character called The Joker, and there is clearly the word �Socialism� beneath the portrait. This is political commentary; whoever came up with it is using a familiar visual image, and giving us an actual word which delivers a two-point message: he or she thinks the president is a joke, and a socialist.

This -until very recently- used to be called �free speech.� It is protected in this country, and thought very highly of. And protest or dissent, we have been told, is the very highest form of patriotism.

Some good comments as well. Whomever did this image really captured the essence of the problem... Posted by DaveH at August 5, 2009 11:05 AM