StevenSeagal Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 Still pissed the south lost the war, I see. Is that supposed to be some reverse Al Jolson racist shit? The blood thirsty negro in whiteface pretending to be one of the good guys? Had any luck jump starting the local chapter of the Aryan Brotherhood, cracker? Quote
Off_White Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 Just keep the goddamn government out of my medicare! Quote
G-spotter Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 "Doctors steal so here's your bill" - Devo Quote
pink Posted August 16, 2009 Author Posted August 16, 2009 Still pissed the south lost the war, I see. Is that supposed to be some reverse Al Jolson racist shit? The blood thirsty negro in whiteface pretending to be one of the good guys? Had any luck jump starting the local chapter of the Aryan Brotherhood, cracker? no, im not a racist white .... anyway, since when did white folks start pullin the race card anyway? i'd say that man is whiter than i am other than he proly has a bigger cock thatn i do... i think they call it freedom of speech last time i checked or shall we dumb that down while were at it. Quote
Choada_Boy Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 no, im [sic] not a racist white .... anyway...he proly [sic] has a bigger cock thatn [sic] i do... i think they call it freedom of speech last time i checked Yes. You are still free to speak your brand of poorly disguised racist hatred...little dick. Quote
pink Posted August 16, 2009 Author Posted August 16, 2009 no, im [sic] not a racist white .... anyway...he proly [sic] has a bigger cock thatn [sic] i do... i think they call it freedom of speech last time i checked Yes. You are still free to speak your brand of poorly disguised racist hatred...little dick. not being a racist, obama is a joker IMO... but i took it off since u r so offended which was not my attention. Quote
billcoe Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 Don't think it's racist at all. How is that racist???? It's a clever attempt to suggest that the President has Joker tendencies, did you watch the movie Batman? How is this racist again? Quote
billcoe Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 Maybe you can show which magazine covers are racist instead of offensive? Personally, the Obama as the Joker offended me a tad. The Joker was a mean MF psychopath and it's a poor comparison. I love the Mad magazine one though, especially as a former smoker myself and knowing how hard Obama was trying to quit at that time just as he took office. I can't even imagine the stress a President must be feeling, and to try and quit smoking? whew. This cover is funny and informative, the Obama as Heath Ledgers Joker poster is neither to me. I am reading "Lenins Tomb" right now (great book), and it's curious how many citizens in the Russian population supported (and still do) the murders of dissidents and others. If the poster is suppose to reflect on that, we'll, it worked that way for me. Quote
Choada_Boy Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 no, im [sic] not a racist white .... anyway...he proly [sic] has a bigger cock thatn [sic] i do... i think they call it freedom of speech last time i checked Yes. You are still free to speak your brand of poorly disguised racist hatred...little dick. not being a racist, obama is a joker IMO... but i took it off since u r so offended which was not my attention. Offended? Clearly you don't know me. I watched "Two Girls, One Cup" while eating a greasy hamburger. But why take down the picture you posted and clearly didn't comprehend? "Freedom of Speech" too much of a burden to bear for a little dick chickenshit racist? Quote
pink Posted August 16, 2009 Author Posted August 16, 2009 well since you put it that way i put it back up for you to enjoy, i personally don't care what the fuck you think about me. i took it down compliments of you sensitive pony tail boy. and what else is it that you know about me, i suppose you can tell me what my thoughts are. i'm afraid that you are the judger today you tough guy. you can take your little dick chicken shit crap and tell it to some other angry individual as yourself. it being racist is your interpretation of the picture not mine pretty boy. Quote
Choada_Boy Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 Here's how this works: 1) You implied that Obama's dick was bigger than yours 2) You invoked the "black men have big dicks" racial stereotype 2) You told a racist joke 3) You babbled about "Freedom of Speech" then censored your own speech Little dick chickenshit racist in my book. Quote
pink Posted August 16, 2009 Author Posted August 16, 2009 looks like you got it all figured out, let me know when your book hits the best sellers list... Quote
Hugh Conway Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 btw, look out your window... there's a skunk. he smells better than this thread Quote
StevenSeagal Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 And you all thought this thread was going to be about socialism... Quote
Choada_Boy Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 btw, look out your window.... Hey! Wow! I live in America in 2009! Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 I JUST WANTED TO POST IN THIS VERY IMPORTANT THREAD! Quote
Ponderosa Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 What a crack-up. A guy posts an image of the supreme political authority figure appearing as an infamous, villainous, cinema clown and some, based on appearance alone, jump to a racial inference. The OP made no ostensible allusion to race until after others asserted the issue. You Jokers are tweaked, indeed. Quote
olyclimber Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 U GAIS R JOKE!!! [video:youtube]mMjsIVX8kWs Quote
ivan Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 i'd rather have the joker on my team then the previous dumbo Quote
billcoe Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Probably an AaaaaRab:-) But what skillz.... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-joker-artist.html "Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan August 17, 2009 | 6:29 pm 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. Then the counter exploded after a still-anonymous rogue famously found his image, digitally removed the references to Time Magazine, captioned the picture with the word "socialism" and hung printed copies around L.A., making headlines. Alkhateeb's original Flickr page surpassed 20,000 views. The Times found his Flickr site last week thanks to a tip left by a loyal reader of The Ticket. By Friday, the page had been taken down. On Alkhateeb's page, a manipulated image condemning fellow Chicagoan and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (captioned "epic fail") was mixed in with parodies of the "Guitar Hero" game franchises -- dubbed Quran Hero -- and of Napoleon riding a motorcycle (pictured after the jump). Flickr had removed the Joker image due to copyright-infringement concerns, Alkhateeb says the company told him in an e-mail. A Flickr spokeswoman declined to comment due to a company policy that bars discussing inquiries about individual users. Alkhateeb says he wasn't actively trying to cover his tracks, but he did want to lay low. He initially had concerns about ... ... connecting his name with anything critical of the president -- especially living in Chicago, where people are "very, very liberal," he said. "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. Napoleon Possibly becoming a villain in his home city wasn't his only worry. Time's cover and the Joker obviously aren't Alkhateeb's copyrights to fool around with. Concerned about a lawsuit, Alkhateeb, an unnamed superstar whose nationally recognized artwork had stunned friends and family, was relieved that the situation had floated for months without any major news organizations discovering that he was the man behind the paint. After we contacted him, he hesitantly agreed to an interview. If it's any consolation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that defends digital rights, says Alkhateeb has a strong fair-use defense if Time or DC Comics decides to take him to court -- that is if one even does file a lawsuit. "You really want to think twice about going after a political commenter," said Corynne McSherry, a senior staff attorney at the EFF. In Time's case, "a news organization probably doesn't want to be in the situation of pursuing political criticism." Perhaps the strongest case for anyone, McSherry said, is for Alkhateeb to claim money derived from people selling T-shirts with his picture. Is it worth pursuing? "It would be nice, but it's not that big of a deal," Alkhateeb said. Although Alkhateeb claims he was making no political statement with the artwork, he's plugged into the Washington debate. Though born in the United States, his Palestinian family closely follows Middle Eastern politics. "I think he's definitely doing better than Bush was," Alkhateeb said of Obama. Alkhateeb's views on foreign relations align with the Democrats, he said, while he prefers Republican ideals on domestic issues. Alkhateeb's assessment of Obama: "In terms of domestic policy, I don't think he's really doing much good for the country right now," he said. "We don't have to 'hero worship' the guy." Someday, Alkhateeb hopes to be a history teacher and high school football coach. He won't be pursuing a full-time career in art, but he'll continue playing with Photoshop on the side. He's honored by Shepard Fairey's assessment of his Joker picture, but disagrees with some of Fairey's comments criticizing the message of the Socialism poster. "He made a picture of Bush as a vampire," Alkhateeb said about Fairey. "That's kind of speaking with two faces." Regardless, Alkhateeb does agree with the Obama "Hope" artist about "socialism" being the wrong caption for the Joker image. "It really doesn't make any sense to me at all," he said. "To accuse him of being a socialist is really ... immature. First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?" -- Mark Milian" Quote
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