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Obama Joker Poster Stirs Outrage, Bush Joker Poster Not So Much
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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."
Yet, when Vanity Fair's Politics & Power blog published a somewhat similar visual representation of George W. Bush last July, nobody seemed to complain. In fact, throughout the Bush years, demeaning drawings of the President and Vice President Dick Cheney were quite commonplace.
But, according to KTLA.com, depicting Barack Obama in unflattering terms is a no no (h/t Sonny Bunch via Jonah Goldberg):
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08-04-2009, 02:46 PM
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I was thinking of making this my avatar !
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08-04-2009, 03:13 PM
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Oh but I just love your beetlejuice avatar, it has much more character than barry or bushy...
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The image on the right is a characture.
The image on the left is the face of reality.
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I was thinking of making this my avatar !
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08-04-2009, 10:07 PM
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Nice, Kit Fox !
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I made a smaller version for forums that require small avatars.
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