Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Obama Joker Poster Stirs Outrage, Bush Joker Poster Not So Much

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Not surprisingly, the Obama Joker Poster reported by NewsBusters Saturday is already drawing some outrage.

According to a television station where the posters have been spotted,

"Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous."

Hmmm. I wonder where the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable was when Vanity Fair published this last July:



And where was their outrage when the Village Voice published this on the cover of its October 26, 2004, issue:



In reality, if I wanted to, I could likely produce hundreds of disgusting drawings of Bush, Cheney, and others in their Administration plastered at publications across the fruited plain the last eight years.

That was acceptable commentary and political satire - back then.

Now that Obama is in the White House, it's called "mean-spirited and dangerous"??

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