Another thing Freepers don't get...Art.

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http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/10/08/obamas-henchmen-and-the-rise-of-commu-fascism-is-this-what-they-mean-by-bringing-the-left-and-right-together/



Penned by: Shawn D. Akers is the Director of Academic Support and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Liberty University School of Law.

"If there was any remaining question of his revolutionary greatness, scattered around the nation are tri-color campaign posters of Mr. Obama, bearing a striking resemblance to the larger than life representations of Lenin, Marx, and Engels used by soviet propagandists in the glory days of Mother Russia. These communist styled knock-offs featuring Mr. Obama staring nobly – if melodramatically – into the distance and emblazoned with one-word utopian mantras such as “Change,” “Progress,” or “Hope,” were designed by Shepard Fairey whose obsession with communist propaganda overflows in his “OBEY” brand website which brandishes a Cyrillic-styled banner that reads “Propaganda Engineering” and boasts the company motto “Manufacturing Quality Dissent Since 1989.”

The nod to Chomsky notwithstanding, Fairey, like any good propagandist, denies the obvious message of the Obama campaign posters. He claims the art is “patriotic” and prefers to let it speak for itself as it joins his growing portfolio of romanticized communist plagiarisms of such other “patriotic” works as Demitry Moor’s famous 1920 Soviet Red Army recruitment poster Have You Volunteered? , Vladimir Kozlinsky’s 1919 poster Meeting , and the 1968 Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution poster Political Power Comes from the Barrel of a Gun . Least the fascists feel slighted, Fairey also produced an exact copy of the Nazi Gestapo “death’s head” logo which he placed on t-shirts and rebranded as a part of his OBEY clothing line."

(not mentioned in the bio: Liberty University=Falwell U. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University#Biology_and_fossils)

More Freep-o-vision about Shepard Fairey:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099244/posts

I'm not sure how someone can go through life with a total lack of irony or perception.

[Champion Jack]

1. I don't know what I like, but, I know Art

Have you seen him?

[zbdent]

4. Art is not welcome in the Cleveland area ...

Modell ...

[DevonRex]

2. Heh heh. They only like art if it matches their couch. I mean, why

else would a person have any art, right? Oh, unless it's an investment for the uber rich. But then it STILL has to match their couch.

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5. Thomas Kincade! Shiver.

Taste aside: talk about propaganda!

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet

How many people really got to participate in that kind of homey prosperity back in the day? Sure, life was simpler then. If you were the right color and generally prosperous. Drives me nuts.

[DevonRex]

12. OMG. Thank you very much for the Kincade images I now have

in my head. Not.

I need some Picasso or Van Gogh FAST.

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15. Van Gogh coming up...STAT!!

http://images.google.com/images?q=van%20gogh&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Sorry about that. Raw, undiluted Kinkade can be toxic.

[DevonRex]

17. I love the smoking skull! Just what I needed. Thanks. :)

[jrockford]

23. Shiver is right. That's complete mass produced ick.

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24. Yep.

Horrible fundie mass-produced ick. The trifecta of bad taste. Happily they seem to be under siege for fraud:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/02/26/news/state/17_07_112_24_06.txt

[lpbk2713]

3. Wasn't it ASScroft ....

... who wanted to cover up all the art in DC because it was to lurid in his opinion?

I'm still LMAO over that one.

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8. It is funny.

Especially since they like to beat on the drum of the "Founding Fathers". Isn't all that Federal architecture in DC based on the Classical styles? Chock full of naked people, I'm afraid. :silly:

[jobycom]

6. Funny, I find myself agreeing in large part with this article

only I find myself substituting Obama's name with Reagan or Bush. :shrug:

To hear the right wing babble about candidates without experience who build their entire campaign on a cult of personality meant to instill an emotional rather than intellectual response is beyond irony, into surreal.

And you are right, their inability to understand irony is staggering.

[LunaSea]

7. How unfair!

Freeps have their artistic side...

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10. :)

[LunaSea]

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[gatorboy]

9. See An American Carol.

No wait.... Don't!

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11. I'd rather sand all my furniture.

The trailers looked as funny as McCain's Ramada Inn comic routine!

[Kalyke]

13. Um, does Akers not realize the tri-colors are red, white and blue?

:eyes:

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18. I think that just makes it worse in his eyes.

As far as I can tell anyway.

"Whatever else may be said, Mr. Obama’s personality cult campaign has been an unmitigated success, creating, almost ex nihilo , a “beloved leader” out of a largely inexperienced and unknown man, void of business, executive, and foreign policy credentials. This fact alone is cause for substantial concern, but, unfortunately for the American people, what has been true of the form of the Obama campaign is now materializing in its function as individuals cloaked in the appearance of state authority seek to silence dissent and indoctrinate the masses."

I love it when right-wingers get their grubby hands on postmodernism. Their version of critical theory reads like a parody.

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19. kick for the evening crowd. n/t

[edbermac]

20. Freepers think 'culture' is something in yogurt.

:rofl:

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21. Even that might be too complicated. ;) n/t

[Canuckistanian]

22. I've never see so many scholarly references....

...that totally miss the whole point.

This guy must get paid per syllable.

[Starry Messenger]

25. THAT'S what I couldn't put my finger on.

It's like listening to a Palin speech. Pseudo-intellectual Mad-Libs.

[tom_paine]

26. Nazis projecting temselves onto their Jewish victims. Bushies are so predictable.

They NEVER really change.

[KatyaR]

27. It has to be painted on velvet to be considered art.

Dumbasses. I love that poster--but I'm probably a communist by most people's standards.