Have you seen me?

[2012 Countdown]

[jingofever]

Another famous Chicago Democrat clown:



Alex Jones would make a better Pogo. He just doesn't have that Joker physique.

[nathan28]

Another famous Chicago Democrat clown:



Alex Jones would make a better Pogo. He just doesn't have that Joker physique.

Between the loser intern at the NRO office who cobbled together the image, and that Jones youtube schtick, this may very well be the birth of the restoration of the Imperial Death Cult.

[Bridge It]

this image did not come from the left,

it is not "unsophisticated"

and it is not about race

meet the new boss....same as the old boss.

[2012 Countdown]

When Did Americans Turn into a Bunch of Raving Lunatics?


image source-
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richard ... one-080409

[elfismiles]

With video ... cites Alex's contest, shows posters mostly obviously the result of said contest.

Post Office Vandalized With Obama 'Joker' Posters
Posted: 6:14 pm EDT August 11, 2009
Updated: 8:55 am EDT August 12, 2009

CLERMONT, Fla. -- A vocal and graphic Internet campaign attacking President Barack Obama just hit Central Florida and one of its first targets was a U.S. Post Office (see images). Several Lake County residents called WFTV when they spotted the 'Joker' posters on stop signs and saw workers scraping them off the post office in Clermont.

The postmaster told Eyewitness News he was deeply offended by what he saw, as were many residents who drop off mail at that location. He said he was getting so many calls he had to come out and scrape them off himself.

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"I found that they were very well glued on and they're not easy to be taken off," Postmaster Willie Montgomery told Eyewitness News on Tuesday.

Montgomery said he was flooded with calls as soon as people saw the posters stuck to the drop box at his Clermont post office.

"I've been with the Postal Service for 30 years now," he said. "I've never seen anything this insensitive."

OBAMA 'JOKER' POSTERS POSTED
See Images Of Posters In Clermont

The crude depiction of President Obama shows him looking like a clown, or the Joker from the most recent Batman movie. But Clermont isn't the only town dealing with it.

The poster campaign is a national one, and known talk-radio and Internet personality Alex Jones is pushing people to post and videotape the signs in a stand against Obama.

"The establishment is trying to use his star appeal to sell the new world order, the carbon tax, the health care, the whole agenda," Jones argued in a video clip on his website.

Jones is not affiliated with any party and has been called a muckraker and conspiracy theorist. But right or wrong, it seems some people in Clermont are listening. For Montgomery, he says it's going too far.

"They've gone much too far. This is what I would call an extreme," he said.

Montgomery says he has already contacted the Postal Inspector to look into it. He said defacing a Post Office is a federal offense.

http://www.wftv.com/news/20362245/detail.html

[elfismiles]

[barracuda]

http://www.zazzle.com/obamajoker

[marmot]

[marmot]

Whole Foods comes out against health care reform - calls it "socialism"

[elfismiles]

Clermont police interview suspect in Obama 'Joker' posters


A poster of President Obama is seen at the S.R. 50 underpass in Clermont. (TOM BENITEZ, ORLANDO SENTINEL / August 12, 2009)

Anthony Colarossi
Sentinel Staff Writer
5:48 p.m. EDT, August 13, 2009

CLERMONT - Clermont police have interviewed one suspect who is admitting to putting up the dozens of posters pasted around the city depicting President Obama as the Joker character from the Batman film The Dark Knight, city officials confirmed.

Assistant City Manager Darren Gray said city officials have an individual "admitting to putting up 500" of the posters.

Clermont Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the male individual has admitted to putting up some signs, but investigators suspect others were involved and their investigation is continuing.

"We have talked to an individual," Jensen said. "He only admitted to some of it...We're still tracking down leads and talking to folks. We have not arrested anybody."

At this point officials are not sure how much damage was caused by the signs or the dollar amount associated with the clean-up.

Dozens of the posters were pasted around the city earlier this week. A pair of the posters were pasted to a Clermont Post Office collection box. They prompted the postmaster to contact the Postal Inspector's office, which is looking at potential federal crimes for defacing federal property.

City officials, meanwhile, are trying to determine what local crimes might be associated with the posting of the images on public and private properties. They've also been busy ripping down the sticky signs because they're a violation of city ordinance regarding illegal signs.

Jensen said he doesn't have a good count on the number of posters put up because, he said, "People are going out and tearing them down."

In a press release put out late today, Jensen said the suspect "also asked if he could video tape the encounter with the officers." Clermont Police declined that request.

"Currently we are still conducting interviews of victims, witnesses, and other suspects who were placing the Obama Joker Poster throughout our city," Jensen said in the statement. "We believe that the postings are the result of multiple suspects. We are hopeful that we can develop enough information to present charges of vandalism to the State Attorney's Office for review."

He did not have a specific reason why the individual who admitted to putting up the posters spent so much time sticking them to surfaces around the city, but Jensen suspects it may have something to do with a contest linked to the image of the President in white face and smeared lipstick, like the Joker.

Check back for more details.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc ... 9018.story

[elfismiles]

Whole Foods comes out against health care reform - calls it "socialism"

Oh, you mean John "Sock-Puppet" Mackey ...

The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped

By BRAD STONE and MATT RICHTEL
Published: July 16, 2007
Correction Appended

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 — On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog — or the chief executive of a Fortune 500 company.


John Mackey, chief executive of Whole Foods Market, used a fake online identity.

Or so thought John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market, who used a fictional identity on the Yahoo message boards for nearly eight years to assail competition and promote his supermarket chain’s stock, according to documents released last week by the Federal Trade Commission.

Mr. Mackey used the online handle “Rahodeb” (an anagram of his wife’s name, Deborah). In one Internet posting sure to enter the annals of chief-executive vanity, Mr. Mackey wrote as Rahodeb, “I like Mackey’s haircut. I think he looks cute!”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/techn ... 6blog.html

[Penguin]

Haha, that is great...

[Jeff]

Image was a leftist critique; "socialism" caption was added later by a "still-anonymous rogue."


Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan

August 17, 2009 | 6:29 pm

When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?

Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?

Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.

Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.

Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.

Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.

On Jan. 18, Alkhateeb uploaded the image to photo-sharing site Flickr. Over the next two months, he amassed just a couple thousand hits, he said.

Then the counter exploded after a still-anonymous rogue famously found his image, digitally removed the references to Time Magazine, captioned the picture with the word "socialism" and hung printed copies around L.A., making headlines.

Alkhateeb's original Flickr page surpassed 20,000 views. The Times found his Flickr site last week thanks to a tip left by a loyal reader of The Ticket. By Friday, the page had been taken down.

On Alkhateeb's page, a manipulated image condemning fellow Chicagoan and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (captioned "epic fail") was mixed in with parodies of the "Guitar Hero" game franchises -- dubbed Quran Hero -- and of Napoleon riding a motorcycle (pictured after the jump).

Flickr had removed the Joker image due to copyright-infringement concerns, Alkhateeb says the company told him in an e-mail. A Flickr spokeswoman declined to comment due to a company policy that bars discussing inquiries about individual users.

Alkhateeb says he wasn't actively trying to cover his tracks, but he did want to lay low. He initially had concerns about ...

... connecting his name with anything critical of the president -- especially living in Chicago, where people are "very, very liberal," he said.

"After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ," Alkhateeb said. "From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him."

"I abstained from voting in November," he wrote in an e-mail. "Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state." If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Possibly becoming a villain in his home city wasn't his only worry. Time's cover and the Joker obviously aren't Alkhateeb's copyrights to fool around with.

Concerned about a lawsuit, Alkhateeb, an unnamed superstar whose nationally recognized artwork had stunned friends and family, was relieved that the situation had floated for months without any major news organizations discovering that he was the man behind the paint.

After we contacted him, he hesitantly agreed to an interview.

If it's any consolation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that defends digital rights, says Alkhateeb has a strong fair-use defense if Time or DC Comics decides to take him to court -- that is if one even does file a lawsuit.

"You really want to think twice about going after a political commenter," said Corynne McSherry, a senior staff attorney at the EFF. In Time's case, "a news organization probably doesn't want to be in the situation of pursuing political criticism."

Perhaps the strongest case for anyone, McSherry said, is for Alkhateeb to claim money derived from people selling T-shirts with his picture. Is it worth pursuing? "It would be nice, but it's not that big of a deal," Alkhateeb said.

Although Alkhateeb claims he was making no political statement with the artwork, he's plugged into the Washington debate. Though born in the United States, his Palestinian family closely follows Middle Eastern politics.

"I think he's definitely doing better than Bush was," Alkhateeb said of Obama. Alkhateeb's views on foreign relations align with the Democrats, he said, while he prefers Republican ideals on domestic issues.

Alkhateeb's assessment of Obama: "In terms of domestic policy, I don't think he's really doing much good for the country right now," he said. "We don't have to 'hero worship' the guy."

Someday, Alkhateeb hopes to be a history teacher and high school football coach. He won't be pursuing a full-time career in art, but he'll continue playing with Photoshop on the side. He's honored by Shepard Fairey's assessment of his Joker picture, but disagrees with some of Fairey's comments criticizing the message of the Socialism poster.

"He made a picture of Bush as a vampire," Alkhateeb said about Fairey. "That's kind of speaking with two faces."

Regardless, Alkhateeb does agree with the Obama "Hope" artist about "socialism" being the wrong caption for the Joker image. "It really doesn't make any sense to me at all," he said. "To accuse him of being a socialist is really ... immature. First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?"

-- Mark Milian


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washing ... rtist.html

[stefano]

I think the "powers that be", the banks/insurers/drug co's are fuelling all this shit, especially the disruptions at meetings etc., to try and smother Obama's oh so meek health care reform, but are waking up hatreds that they weren't counting on. If the worst happens, then for a while they'll think they're in control of the mob, until one day they aren't.