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Monday, August 17, 2009
Obama JOKER artist unmasked: 20-yo Chicagoan, Pali-American Firas Alkhateeb. Now that is asploding Obama's NARRATIVES!
Posted by kotang at 10:01 PM
Via a Twitttererer, a link to Instapundit gives up this breaking LA Times article...
Actually, the person who found the Flickr image did a better job promoting the thing than did Alkhateeb, skilfully removing the TIME magazine logo and affixing the nice shade of blue to Obama's image (the Smurf look) and posting the thing to public view. That took some ballz, really; anyone can create pshopped political images (just look around here) but to get them going viral and nationwide takes a bit more...adept manipulations.
Firas worried about lawsuits. Naaaah, that's fair use, and political speech. I'd like to see some azzhole sue you for that (FLICKR, the cowards, did take his page down after this started to break).
Well, who wants to get in the way of a Chicago thug politician and millions of worshipping Obamanoids? Not to mention SEIU and ACORN thugs? Maybe the kid was right to be worried.
He might want to hire a bodyguard. Or better, move to Texas, where he would be an instant Hero.
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?The kid hid it on Flickr, I guess from TIME magazine (the source of the original photo). Someone else found it there and ran with the 'Socialism' theme (that someone is still safely hidden away).
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.
Actually, the person who found the Flickr image did a better job promoting the thing than did Alkhateeb, skilfully removing the TIME magazine logo and affixing the nice shade of blue to Obama's image (the Smurf look) and posting the thing to public view. That took some ballz, really; anyone can create pshopped political images (just look around here) but to get them going viral and nationwide takes a bit more...adept manipulations.
Firas worried about lawsuits. Naaaah, that's fair use, and political speech. I'd like to see some azzhole sue you for that (FLICKR, the cowards, did take his page down after this started to break).
Well, who wants to get in the way of a Chicago thug politician and millions of worshipping Obamanoids? Not to mention SEIU and ACORN thugs? Maybe the kid was right to be worried.
He might want to hire a bodyguard. Or better, move to Texas, where he would be an instant Hero.
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