The, ah, progressives are upset about a new wave of guerrilla art in Los Angeles. When I lived in L.A., I almost made special trips up to Westwood in order to get the latest issue of LA Weekly. Hey, I was in my twenties, this stuff is profound when you're in your twenties! Anyway, one Steven Mikulan, writing on the LA Weekly website has already played the race card: "Obama is in white face, his mouth (like Ledger's Joker's) has been grotesquely slit wide open and the word "Socialism" appears below his face. The only thing missing is a noose." Hey, outraged, ah, progressives: If you can't take a joke... And be sure to click the link again since you can't take criticism. Also, you've got 7.5 more years, you're going to need to grow a thicker skin.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Racism?
The, ah, progressives are upset about a new wave of guerrilla art in Los Angeles. When I lived in L.A., I almost made special trips up to Westwood in order to get the latest issue of LA Weekly. Hey, I was in my twenties, this stuff is profound when you're in your twenties! Anyway, one Steven Mikulan, writing on the LA Weekly website has already played the race card: "Obama is in white face, his mouth (like Ledger's Joker's) has been grotesquely slit wide open and the word "Socialism" appears below his face. The only thing missing is a noose." Hey, outraged, ah, progressives: If you can't take a joke... And be sure to click the link again since you can't take criticism. Also, you've got 7.5 more years, you're going to need to grow a thicker skin.
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Here's Mikulan's post (http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/politics/new-anti-obama-joker-poster/): "A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources. Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm.
The poster, which bears a very superficial resemblance to Shepard Fairey's famous Obama Hope illustration, has been pasted on freeway supports and other public surfaces. It has a bit of everything to appeal to the drunk tank of California conservatism: Obama is in white face, his mouth (like Ledger's Joker's) has been grotesquely slit wide open and the word "Socialism" appears below his face. The only thing missing is a noose. The safe money says the first thing out of the mouths of Fox News bobble-heads is, "Can't liberals take a joke?"
That's pretty willful mis-reading to complain of whiteface and racism. It's pretty obvious that it's a straight Joker reference. If the Left were going to get outraged over anything, it should be the implication that Obama is a psychopathic criminal.
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