Video: Obama cultists pay tribute to creepy Shepard Fairey hagiography
posted at 3:05 pm on November 14, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Even now, with The One safely elected, I can’t quite believe this isn’t an elaborate piece of performance art engineered by Fairey to prove a point about political idolatry. As a goof on the cult of personality surrounding Obama, it can’t be improved upon: The leader, larger than life, reduced to the level of abstraction via the color scheme and Orwellian all-capped text, the better to render him the personification of a glorious ideal. Imagine a similar image of Bush circa 2004 emblazoned with the word “Victory.” Think the media would have noticed?
The best part: Fairey describing himself as a “counterculture artist.” Hey, Shep? You’re about as counterculture at this point as the official portrait painter for the Pope. Except that (a) the Pope’s not as powerful (or sacrosanct) as your guy is, and (b) the Pope’s guy might be doing it for the money, not out of blind religious devotion.
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This is so darm creepy. Those banners in Chicago are ridiculous, since when does a major city congratulate a candidate in such a way? Did GWB have banners in Dallas or Austin? Of course not, because conservatives spread ideas through logical thought and debate, not mind-numbing propaganda.
The woman with the sunglasses is the prototypical Obama supporter: when asked why she likes him she says something like “he’s a change, he’s positive, YOU KNOW, like a change for something different”. She puts in the you know subconsciously, as in, come on, you have to see it! It’s obvious!
I’ve never seen this degree idolatry of a leader in this country, and it’s really frightening. I hear all these people “inspired” to do something with their lives because of Obama, and it makes me gag. My grandfather lived in Spain under (and fought in the Spanish civil war against) Franco and he wanted change because it was the right thing to do, and the rational thing to do, not because he worshiped some leader of the opposition or something. A lot of people in the US have lost their drive, and claiming Obama is spurring them into action makes me gag.
FLcapitalistthug on November 14, 2008 at 6:21 PM
O M effing G. He’s an icon, like Che Guevera. Right you might be sister, Good God I hope not.
4shoes on November 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM
I had a friend in college who was from a very wealthy family.
He got an apartment in the East Village with all of us. We split the rent equally. His father offered to buy an apartment building and set us up in a nice apartment where we could continue paying the same rent we were now for more space and luxury.
He turned his dad down because he thought it was more cool and legit to be in the East Village.
That may have been admirable if he was paying his own way. Only thing is that his dad was still paying his rent for him. He just thought it was hip to play at being poor. I never could get him to understand that the rest of us at ramen noodles every day because that’s all we could afford not because we were making some sort of statement.
JadeNYU on November 14, 2008 at 6:55 PM
I mentioned your post in a piece I wrote on this. You might be interested.
The Obama Veneration Generation
gocatholic on November 14, 2008 at 7:26 PM
I live in Chicago and yesterday saw the street posters. My friend and I were walking and were sickened by the tourists and locals snapping pictures and gathering around them. My friend, who is much more bold than I, got down on the ground in a prayer rug/yoga position and started bowing up and down from the waist and chanting. I was wetting myself from laughing so hard. The tourists looked scared but sadly continued to take pictures of her. I half-expected them to join her. So she stands up, looks at the crowd and yells out “He cometh and we will obey” She pulled the whole thing off without one laugh. I,on the otherhand, had to change my clothes.
sherry on November 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
I’ve been creeped out for a while with all of the symbolism. It reminds me of Pink Floyd’s, “The Wall”, when he gets those mobs going at the end, in a Hitler-esque kinda way. In fact, I got the d.v.d during the primaries just to have a late night cry every now and then. I haven’t had the stomach to watch it since Obama became “president elect”.
nemo239 on November 14, 2008 at 8:12 PM
by the way, Sherry’s story really cheered me up. Let’s keep up the good work!
nemo239 on November 14, 2008 at 8:14 PM
He’s an artist. He sees things.
Jaibones on November 14, 2008 at 8:25 PM
What a tool.
sammypants on November 14, 2008 at 9:20 PM
That’s the stuff, all right. The most self-righteously hip people I knew in the ’60s always had trust funds, led by Michael Nesmith, whose mother invented Liquid Paper, and another hipster-scenemaker “musician” whose mother owns Heavenly Ski resort.
The worst of it is that this crap filtered (unquestioned) down to the middle class, where we’ve now seen generation after generation of suburban wannabes. I’ll always believe that rich kids were the source of “white guilt”. Little Billy Ayers was/is a pristine example of the type.
The salient characteristic of the hipsters has always been that it’s never their ass on the line, is it?
warbaby on November 14, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Great quote from House. I’ve argued your point many times with a variant. “Stop trying to make yourself different. Instead, find out who the creator intended you to be. Each creation of his is an original work of art. Unfortunately we try to make ourselves the artist rather than let him complete His work in us. Let him conform us to the image of His Son.”
For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. – Philippians 3:18-21
shick on November 15, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I used to listen to Floyd but then discovered that it left me terribly depressed. Now I listen to Bach.
shick on November 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Last Tuesday one of my local radio stations devoted a large portion of their programming to “celebrating the Inauguration” an event that is over two months away! No mention whatsoever was made of the fact that 11/11 was Veterans Day! It’s going to be a long four years.
muggedbyreality on November 15, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Isn’t this what the dictators do? I thought we were a nation of laws, not personalities…..
DL13 on November 16, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Grow Fins:
“The GWB version of this was
the “Mission Accomplished” banner (in “Orwellian” all-caps, no less),
“the flight suit”
Do you really think a “business suit” would work on a S-3 Viking?
Where would you plug it in?
How much would a “one of a kind” business suit cost compared with a standard flight/G suit?
“and the “glorious ideal” of the carrier landing”
What? “glorious ideal”? We do carrier landings all the time, have been for decades
“by fighter jet”
Actually the landing was done by the pilot, not the bird.
And the S-3 Viking is NOT a fighter plane, It’s primary role is/was ASW anti-submarine/Surface Ship warfare.
Hint: if it were a FIGHTER, it would have been named F-XX
if it were an ATTACK plane it would have been named A-XX
if it were an ELECTRONIC Warfare plane would have been named E-XX
This bird was an S-3 belonging to VS-35 Blue Wolves NAS North Island.
VS-35 is /was an ASW squadron.
“The difference, I’d contend,”
Contend on what? You don’t have a single fact straight, and your ignorance about What you were seeing is astounding.
Your opinion is based of false info, meaning your conclusion is baseless.
Try again, get a clue first.
DSchoen on November 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Nonconformity
Hum I thought it was called “Cookie Cutter Individualism”
DSchoen on November 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM
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