Shame Located?
KTLA has some guy … Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson … calling this poster popping up around LA ”meanspirited and dangerous.” Scary, sure. Not clear exactly how it’s dangerous, unless people have been getting into fistfights or having cases of the vapors in front of it. Doesn’t really strike me as a crowded theater “fire” shout.
Ofari Hutchinson does make meanspiritedness sound somehow … dirty, though. And you know, as a professional tabloid newspaperman and right-wing blogger, I think I might be deeply offended by the notion that there is something wrong with mocking pols.
That guy’s clucking aside, you know what’s fun about this moderately creative bit of dark political commentary? The fact that none of the lefty bloggers, to judge by Memeorandum’s roundup, are indignantly squawking about it. Is it actually possible that they’ve figured out you can’t bash evil chimpy Bushitler for eight years and then start getting worked up over Joker makeup? Hard to imagine. If that’s what it is, it’s gotta be frustrating, having to take the high road like that. Talk about teachable moments.
Here’s one. LA Weekly, maybe more shameless or less sophisticated than even your average lefty blogger, gets busted being hypocritical. Big Hollywood.
LA Weekly seems to be alone in denouncing it as racism … “the only thing missing is a noose” … which while a bizarre stretch is also a little surprising, given the “SOCIALISM” part, which we were informed during the campaign is code for black, on top of the shocking use of white face imagery. Maybe this should be seen as a step forward in post-racialism. Or maybe, mindful of what happened to the last guy who screamed racism, the usual suspects are afraid they’ll be photographed drinking beer with Joe Biden.
Ha! Treacher has cartoon bubble fun with the Joker and the Dark Knight … “Why so spurious?”
Looks like this thing’s been around since April, anyway. Unclear why it suddenly became an issue.
More on this and other recent lefty hypocrisy and race-baiting compliments of HotAir. And Surber’s got your Bush as the Joker vs. O as the Joker, “mock as we say, not as we do” comparison. The Bush one is a little over the top. O’s affectless Joker gets points for creepiness.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:16 pm on Monday, August 3, 2009
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August 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 pm
This image of Obama is instructive, not because of the tired issue of race, but because it so aptly illustrates his mindset: chaotic, informed by old clichès about the middle class (the bourgeoisie, mostly white in increasingly inaccurate Obamaworld). In other words, resentment and the desire to upend the social order. This is a president not in touch with basic American values, because he was raised in an atmosphere of almost-Marxist socialism by a white ultra-liberal mother, and white liberal grandparents, and in his young adult stage, mentored by outright radical communists who taught him the value of white liberal guilt.
I wanted Obama to succeed. I wanted him to live up to the actual historic election of an African-American president. But I also wanted him to represent all Americans and our belief in American values, which are unchanged, despite the efforts of ultra-liberals and that insidious movement of secret Marxist believers who inhabit our educational institutions, information media, and even our heretofore spiritual convocations. He has failed in all of this. Fie on him and all his ilk, and may they fail in the next round of elections.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
So this is bad but “BUCK FUSH” was ok? Someone out there needs a long, thoughtful meeting with a cluebat.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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August 4th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
The first thing I did after reading about this was google “bush joker” to find the pictures of Bush as The Joker. It wasn’t a guess. I KNEW they would be out there.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
We have to start fighting by the doctrine dictated on the battlefield.
How long did it take us to learn this lesson and apply it in Iraq?
At home, now, we don’t have the luxury of distance…let alone time.