Picture of the day
posted at 8:52 pm on September 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I got this earlier tonight from Hot Air reader Dave T in Los Angeles, who swears he saw this across the street from CBS Studios in West Hollywood. He sent it from his iPhone, with this note:
I’m always surprised to see conservative guerilla art in LA. But considering it’s only been a week since O’Keefe and Giles’ first ACORN tape was released, seeing this was downright shocking.
If this is on the level, it’s certainly positioned for maximum effect:
On the level or not, it made my evening.
Update: Via Midas in the comments, Media Bistro reports it’s legit — and it’s gone viral in LA:
The Eastsider LA has an interesting picture of Gary Leonard photographing a spray-painted sign on the exterior wall of Shepard Fairey‘s studio. The sign reads “ACORN Funded Prostitution Zone” and its location suggests that Fairey or someone in his crew is behind the image. Or maybe it’s just another local graffiti artist who wanted to share with his colleagues.
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That looks like the control box for a traffic signal.
trigon on September 17, 2009 at 10:30 PM
The petition will be signed by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Peter Pan, and the entire roster of the 2009 Dallas Cowboys.
MeAlice on September 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Because if they had done this ‘out of the blue’, they would have gotten smacked by the MEGA-RACIST hammer.
Now with the advent of the ACORN tapes, not so much. The politically deadly ‘racist club’ has been transformed into a tattered Nerf bat.
And it took less than a month.
CPT. Charles on September 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
That should win an NEA award.
infidel4life on September 17, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I hear they’re ‘doin’ it’ in dumpsters nowadays.
Every dumpster needs that logo, ACORN funded prostitution zone.
petefrt on September 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Because we genuinely do care about needy people, and want to believe the best of people who say they’re trying to help folks out, that’s why. When your motives are good it’s hard to imagine someone else might take advantage of a situation instead of actually…you know…help!
Bob's Kid on September 17, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Jimmy Carter says the ACORN looks suspiciously like “Obama’s head“, and that would make the “stem” going to the top of the “nut” therefore a “noose“… in …3….2…1…
Soon joined by Keith Olber[lessthana]man’s:
“It’s a low-tech lynching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
~before Nancy Pelosi can fake her next tear.
profitsbeard on September 17, 2009 at 10:41 PM
The mafia has much much higher standards.
mankai on September 17, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I know I heard this on a sound bite somewhere today:
“Yesah, the whole thing stinks of white-ringers attempt to get in on the govment cheese.
If we can get the media to expose these criminals, then, well, we’ll prosecute them for defacing private property.
They be required to do Community Service at one of our branches and have to apologize to the entire board of ACORN, uh, em, once we’ve completed our sentences.”
OkieDoc on September 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Do you think we could get someone to paint these on the streets around the White House and Capital Hill?
MeAlice on September 17, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Wondering if any will turn up here in The Valley.
I’d love to see one at ABC Burbank. Maybe then, Gibson might find an angle for it.
The Ugly American on September 17, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Yep, that’s us: a bunch of racists. Former President Jimmy Failure said so.
SagebrushPuppet on September 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Charlie Gibson: The Jimmy Carter of journalism.
SagebrushPuppet on September 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM
If that were true, why did Obama and his dems think they needed 8 billion dollars of our taxes?
Franklyn on September 17, 2009 at 11:11 PM
What stub?
unclesmrgol on September 17, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and ACORN were tight. another mess for van Jones and his mean green communist red social justice machine
seven on September 17, 2009 at 11:15 PM
This is gonna make those tolerant liberals &*!$#%&*^$# MAD.
jukin on September 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I would love it if someone, anyone, would ask what type of community organizer BO was: the trafficing in little girls kind, tax evasion kind, or outsourcing cathouse kind. I still don’t really know what kind he was.
Maybe some intrepid gumshoe reporter could ask.
Orrin
oprockwell on September 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM
The Monolith!
Shy Guy on September 17, 2009 at 11:18 PM
It was uppity for one of ACORN’s business consultants to suggest the girls should go to school.
No child left behind has more than 1 meaning.
seven on September 17, 2009 at 11:20 PM
starboardhelm on September 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM
There is a military concept called the OODA Loop (for Observe, Orient, Decide and Act). The goal is to essentially get into your enemy’s OODA Loop and disrupt their ability to respond to events.
These videos have gotten inside ACORN’s OODA Loop. They observed what was going on (first O). They oriented their response accordingly (second O) which was portrayed as a minor gaffe requiring a public action and the decision (the D) to act(the A) by firing the reputed “bad actors” caught on tape with proclamations that they were rogue employees.
The brilliance of the drip-drip-drip release of videos is that everytime ACORN applied the above OODA response and assured the world that this was an isolated event, another video emerged from another location with essentially the same concerns.
ACORN’s OODA Loop has been compromised to the point that they cannot claim that these were isolated events instead of a systemic approach. The videos show that no matter what part of the country, the local ACORN office is willing to set up brothels and will help with tax evasion and human trafficking in underage girls for sexual exploitation.
highhopes on September 17, 2009 at 11:34 PM
In WEST HOLLYWOOD? Where even the pigeons are gay? Say it isn’t so! That’s amazing.
crosspatch on September 17, 2009 at 11:37 PM
It was. Working hours are prime earning hours for “clients” who need to get home to their families. The point in human trafficking of underage girls is to maximize profits. You can’t do that and give the girls an education too.
I’m so glad our President has never had any involvement with this group! Oh wait……
highhopes on September 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM
So, you’re saying it’s Shepard Fairey playing with himself?
mrt721 on September 17, 2009 at 11:52 PM
It’s bigger than OODA Loop, Highhopes, the video sting operation has demonstrated conclusively that ACORN is a widespread criminal enterprise on a level that rises to RICO prosecution.
/if we had an honest AG / Dept of Justice. Instead, all have is Just Us.
rayra on September 17, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Just when I think there’s no hope for my hometown…
baldilocks on September 17, 2009 at 11:59 PM
They’ll just change their name to O-Corn and move on!
chickasaw42 on September 18, 2009 at 12:06 AM
B
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OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Probably neither because all three require work. I think he was more into shacking down business where it takes more “thinking kinda stuff” than work. Who knows, down at ACORN’s level business is business and his kiester was parked in an ACORN office more than once doing business.
Franklyn on September 18, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Best acronym I’ve seen yet for ACORN
A
Corrupt
Organization
Ruining the
Nation
Child sex slaves is not over the top enough for ACORN. God bless the dynamic duo.
Mojave Mark on September 18, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Oh, great now you remind me why we pay for him to travel the world. Thanks
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Glad to see those NEA teleconferences were as effective as most other government-run projects.
Great photo!
Mom4t on September 18, 2009 at 12:38 AM
We are so much cooler than those liberal punks.
Elektra on September 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM
You might think so, but then you’d be wrong. This isn’t any normal city — it’s West Hollywood.
unclesmrgol on September 18, 2009 at 1:04 AM
I think a simple “0″ with a slash through it would be good to spread around as well.
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 18, 2009 at 1:07 AM
If this is what you mean:
I’m in. Unless of course you own the website and it just a capitalistic tool to subvert the people’s tru will.
In that case I’ll get some early Christmas presents. Are the shirts available autographed?
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:16 AM
I am especially attracted to the thong
OkieDoc on September 18, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Thank you.
Cindy Munford on September 18, 2009 at 2:34 AM
nice–subversive guerrilla tactics…
well positioned for maximum impact.
ted c on September 18, 2009 at 3:13 AM
Acorn: Leftist nuts caught in the vise of vice on videotape.
Maquis on September 18, 2009 at 3:17 AM
Ya know, living by Alinsky’s rules is quite liberating.
Renwaa on September 18, 2009 at 5:24 AM
Coming to an Elementary School near you soon….
Seven Percent Solution on September 18, 2009 at 5:25 AM
As well as Elvis, Michael Jackson, Dick Tracy, Batman…
SuperCool on September 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM
Was that built with re-claimed lumber and painted with paint made from recycled beet juice?
Jeff from WI on September 18, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Thank you….thank you very much…
Jeff from WI on September 18, 2009 at 7:14 AM
The fall season is upon us and I note that Halloween stuff appears in abundance in the stores earlier each year. But I do not mind, for I enjoy Halloween . . . . The crisp air, the walks in the woods, all of those acorns . . . .
“acorns and ACORNS”
(a small tale of fantasy and wonder)
Acorns are upset! I was surprised to learn this as acorns are usually a very mild mannered people. They are good nuts and mean no one any harm.
Acorn society is offended by some huuumaaan group who calls itself, of all things, ACORN! Why this is an outrage to acorns across America living peaceably in their large piles under the great oak trees.
Acorns are livid that their time-honored name has been usurped by ACORNS and will have none of it. And what`s more, acorns have heard of some huuumaaans called dems or libs who associate with these ACORNS.
Acorns for obvious reasons cannot appear in court to defend themselves, so they ask the help of a few good huuumaaans.
The politely request such huuumaaans to:
1. Get a large pail or bucket.
2. Find a gathering of the acorn community under the oaks.
3. Choose the stoutest among them and place in bucket.
4. Take bucket to a huuumaaan town hall meeting.
5. Identify the ACORNS and libs and dems.
6. Chunk acorn at ACORN and associates.
7. Safety first: Avoid ALL collateral damage. Surgical strikes only please.
8. Yell out YOU LIE! only after acorn has reached ACORN.
Note from the management:This comment is fiction and figurative and not literal nor to be taken as such. And, no, you may not circumvent this fiction by finding one of many other stout nut varieties to chunk at ACORNS. (Even if you already have a pail or bucket!)
Fact: The only acorns remotely resembling ACORNS are the ones with the nasty worms inside. Even so, these are natural things and are to be preferred to unnatural things such as ACORNS.
Sherman1864 on September 18, 2009 at 7:16 AM
This is NOT “guerilla” art.
THIS *I*S* “art”. (in the BEST sense…)
Remember Duchamp’s URINAL?!
“This is not a pipe”?!
Brillo boxes, anyone?!
This IS the revolution. OURS. America’s.
Lockstein13 on September 18, 2009 at 7:17 AM
love it!
TheSitRep on September 18, 2009 at 7:18 AM
I’m glad this kind of “art” is now being done by the right because it’ll make the leftists feel they no longer hold a monopoly on being cool and subversive, and that will scare and demoralize them greatly.
emerson7 on September 18, 2009 at 7:28 AM
This is what the OSS had in mind during WWII. Subversion, espionage and human intelligence.
Wield the tools of Alinsky and Sun Tzu in the defense of liberty, and watch the hammer of freedom smash the statist liberals dastardly plans.
We need to make a comic book starring these two kids, it’d be a hot seller.
ted c on September 18, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Lots of pimps with flashlights out in their backyards lookin for their “tins” too, I would imagine.
Boudica on September 18, 2009 at 7:41 AM
It looks like a tombstone… which is fitting.
ronnyraygun on September 18, 2009 at 8:17 AM
You know what? We really should quit saying “Prostitute” and cal the “Service Workers”, as in Service Workers International Union (SEIU)
MikeA on September 18, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Schadenfreude is a dish best served microwaved, and covered with Hershey’s syrup and whipped cream.
N. O'Brain on September 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM
I have judged the “other” networks as being in the tank for Obama and the democrats.
Sunday, the President will be appearing on all FIVE of the shows, except FNC.
This is their chance to show who they really are. Will they even ask a single question? Will they ask 2, 3, 4 + follow up questions?
I will know before noon on Sunday whether I am right about the opinion of the “other journalists”.
barnone on September 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM
LOLOL
Jeff from WI on September 18, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Tombstone? Must be a peach of an art form.
Jeff from WI on September 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM
You are watching the modern version of Inglorious Basterds.
“Got an ACORN employee here who wants to sell her soul to the devil. Accommodate her.”
platypus on September 18, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I love racism,it’s so…racy yet non-fattening and you don’t hate yourself in the morning.
inevitable on September 18, 2009 at 3:22 PM
1.Can of spraypaint, at local hardware store, $4.25.
2.Cardboard,found just laying around. FREE
3.Razor blades, probably purchased with spray paint, $2.50
4.labor required to make stencil-not much
5.Helping to bring down a Multi-Million dollar scam of an organization… just priceless…
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on September 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM
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