Sometimes an image is so resonant, so perfectly calibrated and executed that it becomes immediately “viral”. This is one. And being so, it’s got the left scared shitless. So, being effective, it’s of course being labeled racist,…

I think the poster is a perfect analogy.

The Joker’s makeup in “Dark Knight” — the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world — emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence.

What a load of crap. The Joker represented the mindlessness of terrorism, and the entire film was in support of W’s war on terror. It had nothing to do with “wounded nature.” More feminine liberal pscyhobabble nonsense.

The way I see this, it’s a Picture of Dorian Gray. The cracks in the “white” face (the safe, nonthreatening face that Barack always strove to present to the world, as he tells us in his autobiographies) show that he isn’t that man at all. This isn’t the safe black man, this is Jeremiah Wright’s parishioner, the man who hates America because – well, I just don’t know why.
Suffice it to say, this is a man who was handed the most prestigious prize of all on a PLATTER and he still hates this country. Now you can see it, it is no longer hidden.

The dark circles around the eyes, like dissipation, reveal the toll of surrounding yourself with people who hate and hunger for power over others. His wife, and mother of his children thinks America is “a mean country.” The nasty progressive virus has bored into his brain. Close contact with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have him talking out of both sides of his mouth. You can almost imagine worms about to crawl out of his nose.

This is a man who can never be made whole. He cannot be redeemed.

Poor guy. He will stagger out of there in 2012, furtively lighting a ciggie…

Unless Gerorge W. Bush dressed as Hitler is racist….

Rightwingguy on August 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM

That was sooooo funny though, don’t you see> Any sacrilegious depiction of Teh One is always going to be “lame” or “racist” or both.

Unlike you, I appreciate lampooning of both sides of the aisle. If someone deserves mocking, mock away. Everybody is fair game. But if you’re going to try, make it good. Not like this poorly conceived, lamely executed meaningless piece of sh*t.

Dave Rywall on August 6, 2009 at 7:09 PM

Must’ve hit some sort of nerve to draw commentary from WaPo. “Lamely executed”? Maybe. But wow, those caricatures of Bush as a vampire or a chimpanzee were just a scream. Got it.

Unlike you, I appreciate lampooning of both sides of the aisle. If someone deserves mocking, mock away. Everybody is fair game. But if you’re going to try, make it good. Not like this poorly conceived, lamely executed meaningless piece of sh*t.
Dave Rywall on August 6, 2009 at 7:09 PM

I have to agree with you. It isn’t racist…just… I dunno. I’m not sure where the Joker=Obama. Kind of lame, but not racist at all. Unless Gerorge W. Bush dressed as Hitler is racist….

bullseye on August 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Yes and he passes socialized healthcare.

Why is it stupid? The man is a joker, he has played the American people.

I bet you thought the nasty, mean spirited images of Cheney and Bush and Condi Rice were funny as hell.

Guys like you can always dish it our but can not take it. Wusses.

Terrye on August 6, 2009 at 4:48 PM
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Hey I have a great idea of where you can put your straw man.

Unlike you, I appreciate lampooning of both sides of the aisle. If someone deserves mocking, mock away. Everybody is fair game. But if you’re going to try, make it good. Not like this poorly conceived, lamely executed meaningless piece of sh*t.

But your explanation of it? Hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.

Ampersand on August 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Looking at it again, I can see your point, but he wasn’t very clear in making that argument. Perhaps clarity of message might head off some of:

The problem with satire though is that people on the left with a huge chip on their shoulder are usually too intelectually challenged to understand the real message.

bullseye on August 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Scrappy on August 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM

Scrappy – the problem is that we are all running around in cirles with this obamanation. I think a lot of us are writing quickly and reading quickly.

The other problem is that most people toward the right are pretty logical. When you start getting the juvinile alsinksy stuff thrown at you by the obamaites and nonsense like Pelosi claiming “Nazi Flags” were being waved by the anti obama protestors, you start feeling like you are in some type of twighlight zone.

My point about the people with a chip on their shoulder was directed at the leftists, not middle of the roaders or conservatives who misread something

Ampersand on August 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM

Looking at it again, I can see your point, but he wasn’t very clear in making that argument. Perhaps clarity of message might head off some of:

The problem with satire though is that people on the left with a huge chip on their shoulder are usually too intelectually challenged to understand the real message.

bullseye on August 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM

exhelodrvr was making a valid point on how these people can use the same sort of logic to label anything racists. Well done exhelodrvr. Highlighting absurdity by being absurd.

Ampersand on August 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM

exhelodrvr hit the nail right on the head. The problem with satire though is that people on the left with a huge chip on their shoulder are usually too intelectually challenged to understand the real message.

We can’t back down when the left screams racist (unless it is something overtly so). If we do, as exhelodrvr pointed out, they can contort anything into being a ‘racist comment’.

Of course, this is Karma paying Obama back for the “lipstick on a pig” comment.