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    Why So Serious? Obama/Joker Poster Draws 'Outrage'



    Why So Serious? Obama/Joker Poster Draws 'Outrage'

    Posted by Bobby Eberle
    August 10, 2009 at 7:31 am

    If there's one thing about liberals, it's that they're predictably predictable. In their eyes, it is more than acceptable to mock Sarah Palin and her family, using descriptions that range from rude to crude. When President Bush was in office, he was the focus of daily ridicule from left-wing journalists and bloggers.

    However, no one better make fun of Barack Obama or the thought police will express "outrage" and brand you a racist. That's exactly what is happening now as a poster of Obama in "Joker" makeup is popping up on walls and city streets. My question to the lefties: Why so serious?



    As FOXNews.com is reporting, the poster of Obama as the Joker with the word "socialism" under it has drawn outrage from the likes of Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Hutchison called the poster "politically mean-spirited and dangerous."

    Ok, I'm always a little unsure of what to think of the word "mean-spirited," especially when used by some far left spokesman. Photoshopping Sarah Palin's head onto a bikini body in order to portray her as some kind of bimbo would be mean-spirited, right? Yet, I didn't hear a peep out of the media. It seems that "mean-spirited" only applies to actions against liberals, and not actions by liberals.

    The next word used by Hutchinson -- "dangerous" -- is by far the more interesting. How could a poster of Obama as the Joker be dangerous? It can't. But whenever the left uses such a phrase, watch out. It really means that somehow, the First Amendment rights of whomever is making the protest need to be limited or monitored. It's exactly the same type of tactic as the White House asking citizens to report on other citizens for "fishy" information on health care.



    I guess those who are outraged forgot about Vanity Fair's depiction of Bush as the Joker. But why stop there? As the news story points out, publications like the Village Voice and L.A. Weekly had a fondness for portraying Bush as a vampire. I wonder how that would go over if the image were of Obama?

    As Newsbusters.org shows, the poster has recently appeared in Los Angeles and Atlanta. ABC News notes that the poster is quickly making its way across the Internet, "rising to the top of Google's 'Today's Hot Trends' list."

    If anything, the poster quickly sums up what so many Americans are thinking. First... that Obama has come in and made no bones about the fact that he wants to transform America into a big-spending, big-taxing, freedom-restricting, socialist nation. Second... that the joke's on us. So many Americans fell for the rhetoric, and now we are all paying the price.

    But it's hard for the media to accept that there is criticism of Obama. Just look at this CNN report as people are "shocked" by the Obama-Joker poster:

    Video at the link

    Liberals certainly have a hard time when the shoe is on the other foot. They can make fun of Palin or McCain or Bush or Gingrich or Rush or whomever, but they cry foul when one of their own is the target. It's racist... it's mean-spirited... it's dangerous. Grow up! Obama's actions and policies are dangerous. A poster is just a poster.

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