DUmp responds to leftist joker poster maker...

[dutch508]

sledgehammer  (548 posts)         Tue Aug-18-09 09:41 AM
Irony is here.Original message
Obama joker poster artist unmasked: A Kucinich supporter!
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When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?

Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?

Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.

Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.

Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.

Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.

Obama-joker-time On Jan. 18, Alkhateeb uploaded the image to photo-sharing site Flickr (shown at right). Over the next two months, he amassed just a couple thousand hits, he said.

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"After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ," Alkhateeb said. "From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him."

"I abstained from voting in November," he wrote in an e-mail. "Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state." If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

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More at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obam...

 

unpossibles (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-18-09 09:46 AM
Response to Original message
1. and a non-voter.
 Why am I not surprised when the people who find an excuse to not vote are the ones complaining the most loudly?

Oh, I am sure someone in Chicago voted in his name.

AngryAmish (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-18-09 09:50 AM
Response to Original message
4. This little shit needs to be crushed.
 First he has to be expelled. He is inciting violence. 

KILL THE UNBELIEVER!!!

flyarm (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-18-09 10:53 AM
Response to Original message
25. Funny , I remember posts here blaming it all on the republicans.. 
 in fact I just went back in archives to one such thread..go look yourself..

and here were some of the posts..(I did not include who poster names)

Maybe we all need to take in some air and think about what we say about others?????

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-I'm worried and I blame Sarah Palin for opening this door

-yes. these are racist sore losers. they believed Rove when he said permanent Republican majority. Now they feel castrated and want to hit something.

-We can't forget the legacy of the right wing - Using the National Guard to kill union organizers
- Creating racist groups that murdered blacks and civil rights workers
- Using the police to beat up and harass gays
- Using the Red Scare to destroy the lives of left-wingers
- Using religion to incite people to murder abortion doctors

The right-wing is capable of being extremely dangerous.

-THE THUGS ARE GOING INSANE

-Right Wing Extremist kill. Yes, I am very nervous.

-Yes. The right wing is implicitly encouraging the most deranged of its followers.


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point made.

 
Flyarm is soon to be an ex-DUmpmonkie

IndianaGreen  (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-18-09 11:37 AM
Response to Reply #30
31. the OP is misleading and is showing his political bias 
 They all hate Dennis, yet Dennis was right about Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Single Payer, and Wall Street bailouts. They hate Dennis because Dennis is right.

Yes, that is Indianagreen's avatar on DU. No, that is not dutch508, but V I Lenin, whom frank is sure I look so much like...

[Carl]

AngryAmish (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-18-09 09:50 AM
Response to Original message
4. This little shit needs to be crushed.
 First he has to be expelled. He is inciting violence. 

The irony of the insane.

[jukin]

The irony of the insane.

That's funny.

[Karin]

That AngryAmish is always making posts like that.  That particular one has not been scrubbed.  AA is the guy who got his quote posted at Moonbattery.  He's either one of those blowhard cowards or he's dangerous.  Why would name himself that, I wonder.   Wonder what he looks like.  Arms like mine, with a pencil neck?  Little moonbat glasses and scruffy facial hair? 

The rest of the thread is all about Dennis.  No need to row over.