Finally, we have an Arts Writer to tell us what that weird “SOCIALISMS & BARACK OBAMA AS HEATH LEDGER’S JOKER” poster means. We would summarize, but the article is nearly 1,000 words long! Read it and find out! Or click the clicky to find out what two of your editors thought of the poster in a secret high-level editorial discussion on Monday.
Sara S.
I don’t get that Joker poster.
Aug 3
4:05 PM
Jim N.
drudge says these mysterious posters are popping up all across LA!
Sara S.
I know, but … was the Joker a socialist?
Jim N.
socialist, terrorist, same thing
Jim N.
but he did light a pile of money on fire, so sure.
Sara S.
When I think “Joker” I think “dangerous psychopath in makeup” not “socialist”
Jim N.
that money was the RIGHTFUL PROPERTY of the mob bosses!
The end.
Obama as The Joker: Racial Fear’s Ugly Face [Washington Post]
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why do the editors hate America?
[re=379687]dave666[/re]: There seem to be a number of very cogent and thoughtful reasons, which I won’t deign to share at the present moment.
“Why so reactionary?”
To be fair, Obama has described himself many times as a “dog chasing cars” when attempting to push for the GM bailout. He just DOES things.
He’s being called a Socialist by Assholists.
Here I am, living in a socialist workers’ paradise, and I’ve never seen anybody who looks like this.
Well, Manchu does look a little like this, but with more frosted highlights.
In both cases, the people who are most at risk are a select group of thugs who accumulated a bunch of money through corruption.
Does this meant that Barry and Mitt “Bruce Wayne” Romney are headed for inevitable conflict? Barf.
Scary whiteface negro is scary.
There was exactly one in our Austin neighborhood Tuesday. By Thursday it was gone. Probably walked off of its own accord after a day in 100+ degree heat.
Great, now I have to look at these bumper stickers ad nauseam when I drive through Oklahoma. I was just getting tired of the USSA and NO OBAMA NO OSAMA, NO CHELSEA’S MAMA…..I say, these wing nuts have a knack for re-charging their hate batteries with fresh bumper stickers.
Erm, uhm, it’s to do with that scene, in the BATMAN movie!, yerr thassit!, where there’s the big ball with Bruce Wayne and Katie Holmes or whoever and etc, and then the Joker and his goons come and break up the party, which is like a big SOCIAL engagement, and therefore, uhm, SOCIALIZM.
Right?
I wonder why the “creator” of this isn’t coming forward. In my opinion, it’s because the thing makes no sense to anyone and he/she is rightfully embarrassed? Yes.
This is brought to you by the same people who think Bush is Batman, so, you need to suspend disbelief quite a bit for it to make sense. It also helps to chug a pint of Wild Turkey.
Does this go back to the whole Bush-is-the-Batman meme from last year? Because that argument held enough water to keep an african violet alive for at least an hour.
I for one don’t need no fancy pants arts writer to tell me what the dolmio grin means.
: ) : ) : )
If Bush is Batman and Obama is the Joker then with our limited cast of characters it looks like and I hate to say this before breakfast but it looks like Meghan McCain is Catwoman. Or is it Cindy…
[re=379705]Speed Ball[/re]: It also helps to gouge your eyeballs out with forks, then perform a self-lobotomy with cheese knives through the empty sockets. Then its meaning will become clear.
Socialism, as represented by racism.
Obama’s in white-face, Ron Paul is the Dark Knight, this is truly post-racial. And pure comic(al).
Between bouts of anarchistic mayhem, the Joker was often spotted reading Marx, alone, in a small, independently-owned coffeeshop. Mixed in with his wanton destruction, he advocated a systemic worker’s rebellion, and demanded the government provide more broad programs aimed at helping lower- and middle-class workers.
As a man of no color, white, I take offense at these obviously hateful depictions of my people
in whiteface. I demand reparations.
…does this mean we get to see Michaeal Steele(or whomever is the leader of the Republican party) in black spandex, utility belt and cod piece?!?!?! *VOMIT!*
Wait’ll they get a taste of me!
…from “yes we can” to “why so serious!”
When Nobama starts pushing Senator Leahy around in public, without makeup, we will know the truth.
“drudge says these mysterious posters are popping up all across LA!”
Oh yeah. I’m sure that these dingleberries are nervy enough to put these up in South Central and Compton.
Maybe we are all mis-reading this. Maybe the artist intended this to be the president done up in a “slutty flight attendant” look. Maybe this is commentary on the Palin-Letterman feud.
“Dangerous psychopath in makeup”, SKS? Isn’t that Glen Beck? Did you even remember to thank our brave troops for giving us the freedom to be dangerous psychopaths?
Why don’t the Wonkette editors post their sexy cybering logs?! What are they hiding??1?!
Makes me wonder what happens when the double-buttfuck buffoontard who whelped this monstrosity goes off his/her/its meds.
if you guys really wanna have some fun for a time…there are plenty of anti obama chat rooms on a program called Paltalk…i was in one of the rooms yesterday in between hanging with my friends on the same program…and i was stunned stupid…i knew these dumb fucks existed but to hear them actually speak…it was like being trapped with that nut from the video “i want my country back”. Scary. Just search for obama in the chat room list. you’ll see the nuts…i wanted to email rachel maddow and have her look into it but wondering if i would be wasting her time…can’t believe those loons!
This poster is bullshit! I’ve seen our president in eye-makeup and he uses the light, shimmery kind,
not the stuff that lends a crazy emo-goth look. His makeup makes him look exactly like an angel about to sweep his huge magical sword through masses of non-repentant wingnuts! (sigh)
By the way does this make Boener Commissioner Gordon. And Who’s Two-Face?
This is from 4chan (specifically /b/), home to all things racist and child pornography. As is their tradition, they make their attacks anonymously, because they base their hatred on emotion, and when confronted on things they tend to just wet their pants and run back to their parents basements to post about how they totally got an epic win, then beat off to movies of japanese women eating dog shit before crying themselves to sleep.
[re=379728]Cape Clod[/re]: Watch as Drudge creates a fake groundswell of opposition to Obama with the stupid Joker posters.
They were probably created by some stupid YAFer, of the same ilk that were handing out syringes labled “GOV. RIDGE, PUSH FOR JUSTICE! EXECUTE MUMIA!” at the Republican National Convention in Philly in 2000. Clever and witty chaps. I still have one of those from when I covered the Philly RNC as an, um, “journalist”/blogger.
The Joker is a nagger.
I think God was so amused by everyone scratching their heads trying so hard to make the slightest bit of sense of all that French deconstruction and post-structuralist theory that everyone wised up and just stopped trying he invented extremist Wingnuts to have more fun.
It ALMOST makes sense sometimes but then….. no. It’s like Woody Allen’s description of the guy who never got mimes trying to understand one on stage: “Okay, the guy starts by taking off his shoes. Except that they can’t be his shoes because he drinks one, and mails the other one to Pittsburgh…”
[re=379738]PlanetWingnuta[/re]: Two Face? Arlen Spector.
Black man in whiteface. What’s to understand?
Yeah, I’m still a little confuzzled. My first thought was, “why’d they put Obama in white face? Is that supposed to make him less scary or something? Less socialistic?” I just don’t get it. Is there a secret joker/crazy bomber’s union that I’m unaware of? If they’re trying to associate him with terrorists again, shouldn’t they pick the name of one of the (many) they’re always trying to link him to (Obama/Osama!) and make THAT the caption? Are they trying to warn us that in the socialistic takeover, we’ll all be mandated to watch “Dark Knight,” in its entirety, in the waiting room before being allowed to see a gubment doctor? Is the cash for clunkers deal really just a front to get us all batmobiles? Should I look out for guys flying through the sky in strange costumes when I go to walk my dog? What exactly are they trying to get across here?
atleast he looks happy!
[re=379738]PlanetWingnuta[/re]: Two-Face is a crusading, squeaky-clean District Attorney from a New York-like city who is being urged to run for higher office, but is ultimately brought down by the very thing he is most famous for prosecuting.
Do I have to draw you a picture? Let me give you a hint: if I did, it would be a picture of diamonds. Whore diamonds.
[re=379738]PlanetWingnuta[/re]: Obviously, Lieberman and/or Arlen Specter is/are TwoFace (FourFace?)
Further:
Biden = Riddler
Robert Byrd = ScareCrow
Michele Obama = Poison Ivy (natch with her Organic White House hellscape)
These same crazy-ass people saw themselves as penguins, in March of the Penguins. Accordingly, you may expect to see Obama’s face on a sea lion.
The Joker was for a strong, centralized government. It was like THE ENTIRE MOVIE.
[re=379740]lolwtfbbq[/re]: lurk moar.
Of course conservatives are unoriginal , uncultured swines. The libtards ripped it off first:
http://madashellnetwork.org/McCainJoker.jpg
drudge says these mysterious posters are popping up all across LA!
Yeah, he heard it from someone who heard a friend had seen a couple of them downtown. Therefore, all over L.A.
And “health care reform” is probably just blowing up hospitals or something.
I do not get it, I never saw anything past the first Batman and this poster will not show up in Silver Spring(or it won’t be the first poster I have torn down). I had enough of the right wing “chat” when I lurked on LGF and I understand that site is moderated to a certain extent- I don’t need to or want to read even worse racists or hate filled nuts. and finally- the people talking about socialism the most wouldn’t know socialism if it bit them on their huge asses.
I liked the Joker, and I was sad when he died. He seemed to be very sensitive about how people treated him, and was more anti-social than social-ist. These crowds of cognitively dissonant angry retards are very facile at projection politics.
[re=379720]InsidiousTuna[/re]: Isn’t the Joker the ultimate libertarian? I mean, he’s pallid and his lips were probably discolored from a steady diet of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
chapka,SnarkNotFark,The Legend of TeaBagger Vance: i give you each wins cause each of you made the tea come out my nose laughing. Damn i need a new shirt!
Good chat log post, Wonkette.
My favorite:
Hillary = The Penguin.
Also, if they’re showing up in LA, I’m thinking Spike Lee goes ballistic in 5…4…3…
[re=379697]Canuckledragger[/re]: I’m really puzzled as to what most Americans think about Canada. I mean, I have my own rather strong opinions involving our need to annex you guys, but that’s mostly for the purpose of pissing off my relatives in Saskatoon, half of whom are actually British loyalists (they are 800 years old). However, I’m assuming some of these lardnuts have driven their RV up to Niagra Falls at least once – did they not notice the lack of complete chaos in the Canadian streets?
Oooooh! Socialism!!!! Scary! Scary! Like the crazy totalitarian system they have in Canada and the UK! Scary! Scary! He’s coming for the old people now! The fetus’s will be next. Just like in France!!!!! And then he’ll save the auto industry because that’s socialism. Oooh, scary!
actually Michelle would be Harley Quinn.
How cool would it be for Obama to come out at the next press conference with a grenade launcher and start popping a few into the gaggle dressed like this? I would so vote for him again, twice.
[re=379712]shadowMark[/re]: I think Cindy would be CougarWoman, if we want to get specific.
I really don’t know why I need to visit the Freeper site….I wanted to see what the insane were saying about the Joker image. I don’t know whether to laugh or dry heave. In all the not-so subtle racist digs, there was this treasure:
To: matt1234
I received this as an email from a friend.
Divorce agreement
American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).
We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.
We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We’ll practice trickledown economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you Answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheehan, Barbara Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you.
P. S. S. And we won’t have to press 1 for English.
44 posted on Thu Aug 6 10:59:10 2009 by Ev Reeman
[re=379732]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Because they always start with “I put on my cloak and wizard’s hat……”
[re=379712]shadowMark[/re]: Well, we know McCain would be the Penguin.
Was whiteface really the best option they had to make the point?
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: That’s odd, they spelled Shirley MacLaine’s name wrong. I was just at Shirley’s site buying a Chakra Sky Safe Landing Pendant for Meghan McCain because her “fuck harvard” poem yesterday made me fall in love with her and want to give her cool new age love gifts. What was that stuff about a divorce?
[re=379843]shadowMark[/re]: I think the wingnuts want to divorce us. Funny thing is, I don’t remember being [i]married[/i]. Maybe because I’m a socialist, free-loving, tree-hugging, recycling, gay-marriage supporting libtard and I couldn’t see through the haze of pot smoke.
Now feels like the right tome to reiterate that I love me some Obama, over and over and over, all night long. But I really would rather that he not be in white-face at the time. If this means I’m a socialist, then howdy comrade!
It’s simple really, Obama is now a Juggalo.
Estate of Marcel Marceau is bring suit. With my blessing. How dare anyone portray our president as French?
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: Ah, the wisdom and perspective of a law student.
I like how no one knows what socialism is, who the joker is, what racism is, or what the fuck that has to do with Obama.
Hey look, it’s a picture of a fish with a hat and the word “pipe” underneath. must got something to do with hating white people!
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: My involuntary preference is dry heaves combined with periodic dosages of hemlock.
Pretty please for to have some public voice to forcefully redefine ‘socialism’ as people helping people as opposed to ‘greedism’ (okay, it’s not a word, but it’s gotta start somewhere).
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: Prithee, what be these “hot Alaskan hockey moms” of which Mr. John J. Wall speaketh?
I think the terms librul and socialist are losing their sting as they are getting worn out by AM gasbage and PM faux “journalists”. Soon it will be time for the big gun…..the dreaded “C” word.
Comrade!(not really that word).
I am no historian, but I am pretty sure that the right’s idea of “Socialism” is not only their word for whatever they don’t like, but also a far cry from what socialism actually means.
That wingnut ranter says they will take the “cops and military” – isn’t that paid for by tax dollars? Hmm. Sounds like socialism!
When I think Joker I think “fun times at a party.”
Maybe they are having a contest to see what Obama should wear as a Halloween costume.
[re=379822]Gopherit[/re]: Oh.
Wonkette Editors, please keep your cybering logs compressed, encrypted, deleted, and burned. Thank you.
[re=379867]Harvey Birdman[/re]: I think he went to the same law school as Orly Taitz.
I don’t know how Drudge would know about posters popping up around here since he moved to Florida several years ago. I know this because all of a sudden the grocery stores in L.A. could keep tubes of raw cookie dough in stock.
I wonder if Obama has any regrets about winning the election because the American people turned out to be even dumber than he suspected. I picture him walking the halls of the White House at night, drunk, smoking and talking to the portrait of JFK and saying “They have GOT to be fuckin’ kidding me!”
[re=379819]MissM[/re]:
Law student? American?
Earlier version of letter. Notice how it’s signed.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3546/85/
“John J. Wall
Las Student, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri”
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: Fuck taking that Martin Sheehan guy. Reminds me too much of Anne Heche.
[re=379905]S.Luggo[/re]: Las Student? Sounds Messican to me!
“Why so sharelessness? Give me your money for redistribution.”
If the word underneath read “BONER”, then I’d get it, cuz I’m good at dick and fart jokes.
[re=379892]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Oh come on, you don’t want to hear about Newell roleplaying as a rhinoceros?
The crazy thing is that one or two wingnuts are going around posting these posters everywhere and thinking “take that Libtards!” as if it was the greatest piece of political agit-prop ever conceived in the history of mankind and that Obama supporters everywhere are going “oh, no! They totally nailed Obama. My….why hasn’t he shown his birth certificate?”
what’s wrong with socialism? we’ve just been bailing out the wrong industries. let’s nationalize Exxon!
Fail, poster-artist. Chaotic Evil does not feed 89-year-old press ladies unpoisoned cupcakes.
[re=379917]Zadig[/re]: Dammit, you know my weaknesses too well.
The Joker was a goddamned ANARCHIST, NOT THE ANTI-CHRIST. Get it straight, poster guy!
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: A divorce? How about we just deport all those traitorous scum to their own delusional jesus island. I’d like to suggest Alaska, again. Yes, it’s true… you frothing-at-the-mouth teabagger/birther/wingnut dipshits actually hate America, so please leave now!
[re=379956]Atheist Nun[/re]: I can get behind that! I would even settle for Texas. And though it’s not a great movie, the wingnuts constantly make me think of “Idiocracy”
The level of rant/crazy that they display on a daily basis makes me realize that they lose their marbles over birth certificates and the like because Barry is doing a GOOD JOB and they have nothing else to complain about.
Wasn’t there a lefty version of that divorce letter floating around after the 2004 election (thus adding to the body of evidence that conservatives can’t even compose original hate mail)? I remember finding the post-’04 letter a welcome break from marinating in my own tears, but now I can’t find the thing on the Interwebs. It may not have been couched in the “divorce” terms, but it listed all the things 2004 blue-staters would get in a split. Someone help a sista out and post it if you’ve got it.
Does he look like a guy with a healthcare plan?
[re=379964]MissM[/re]: The “Idiocracy” references are coming at us non-stop these days, it seems. And that’s exactly why they should get the fuck out of America, the sooner the better, so my future spawn are not forced to breed with them. (I also think of all the blubbery, soft useless sacks of incurious lemmings from Wall-E.)
I can’t stomach those treacherous bastions of ignorance and drooling stupidity like FR, I thank you for bridging that gap: You are like a fictional movie scientist that throws themselves on a radioactive hunk of shit to protect the rest of humanity! “Save yourselves… *gasp*”
[re=379983]Atheist Nun[/re]: Aww, thanks. The mystery remains as to why I torture myself by going there…as do other Wonketteers….
It’s strange to me that so many posts on Freeper are of the “oh how I love watching libtards squirm! ooh take that, socialists!” variety. The schadenfreude runs deep, and it makes me think that maybe they LIKE misery, hence they keep voting the way they do.
[re=380011]MissM[/re]: Yeah, I usually leave them to their own self-destructive devices. Sometimes (today) I get a little cranky, when I read things like:
President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.
*facepalm*
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: “…healthcare is a luxury not a right.”
And people wonder why a sane, philanthropist like me often prays for a minor, but population-thinning world-wide plague of some sort.
[re=379819]MissM[/re]: With a couple of minor quibbles over details, I’d say that’s a deal.
“I like blackface” + “I’m too stupid to understand socialism, or batman” = this poster.
[re=379965]the prophet of Deseret[/re]: Just for you. I guess it’s originally from 2005…which just proves that the more things change…
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/80714812.html
[re=379819]MissM[/re]:
thank god this fucker wasn’t writing a declaration for causes of secession back in 1860. people would’ve just cracked up, said, “wtf?” and ignored him. Then we would’ve never had the civil war, and so we’d still have slavery.
Words are plentiful deeds are precious
The mask slips from the Obama Deception
Single payer
Premium free
Medicare for all
Big Pharma on diet
Zero insurance profit
No deductible & no co-pay
Off the table? Just like Impeachment was?!
Left and rights of passage, black and whites of youth.
Who can face the knowledge that the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete absolute.
Anthrax Intimidation.
JFK RFK MLK Malcolm.
Israel-first dual-nationals.
InfoWars on a PrisonPlanet?
A very RawStory on PressTV.
Whistle-Blower leaks multiply.
Beware the divide and conquer.
Both parties are corrupt to the core.
Honesty compassion conscience guts.
Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil?
Elite Ruling Class Greed or “public servants”?
Independents agree on more than we disagree.
AIPAC 9/11 Bankers Extortion Blackmail Bribery.
Wall Street Bailout Bill: Bush McCain Obama et al.
Poodles, Puppets, Sham debates, & Scam elections.
Has the Government & Propaganda Media lied to you?
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Chronic lying as career path, intellectual prostitution for paycheck.
DNC & RNC have both sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?
Realignment of American Politics:
Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura
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