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 Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: A Handshake Across Time and Space |
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Obama and Soviet Agitprop: A Handshake Across Time and Space
| Quote: | SLOWJAMMING THE AGITPROP
Obama's recent photo ops in Denver resulted in some curious images. One of them is a surreal bundle of human hands trying to reach Obama. That reminded me of a bizarre Soviet propaganda poster with a collage of outstretched hands and the slogan saying "We will meet the plan of glorious projects!"
So I combined them in a new collage - and suddenly it all came together: many years later, in far-away America, the glorious plan is coming to life. |
Image 1. Obama's campaign image next to the Soviet propaganda image
Image 2. The natural fusion of the two images
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There definitely has been an attempt to build a sort of cult-of-personality around him.
Surprisingly, some Europeans and Australasians have very eagerly bought into it, despite the fact that he has been a rather poor leader.
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:30 am Post subject: |
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How juvenile. A bunch of people want to shake his hand (like a majority of people have done with all presidents throughout the centuries), so he's a commie? Ridiculous.
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| runningwithscissors wrote: | | Surprisingly, some Europeans and Australasians have very eagerly bought into it, despite the fact that he has been a rather poor leader. |
You elected him. Meaning majority of YOU's bought into it. |
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Love the site.
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Actually, it's a fact that a lot of the Obama propaganda borrows heavily from Soviet-era, Marxist, and Nazi imagery and crowd psychology. This was going on to an extreme degree early in his campaign, until he got more mainstream exposure and people started to laugh at it. Remember the Obama Che posters on the wall in his campaign headquarters?
Look at this billboard from a left-wing publication in Wisconsin Tell me that's not classic Comintern imagery. That's Obama's new slogan now, and it comes straight out of the Marxist-Lenninist propaganda book and was in fact used heavily by the National Socialist movement.
Oh, and get this. Now we have the "Obama TruthTeam". Can you get any more Orwellian? Holy shit.
http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/
What does this "TruthTeam" do? Look at the page. They spew shit like this:
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I think that's an unintentionally revealing image which gives us a snapshot into the disgust and self-loathing of the Muso unconscious. Observe the Obama-shaped penis being furiously masturbated over the forbidden object of desire. In the inflexible authoritarian mind, unspeakable cultural taboos - in this case communism - become objects of repressed lust in equal measure to their capacity to inspire fear and loathing. Trapped in a straitjacket of extreme right wing beliefs, the mind will instinctively seek for ways to re-balance itself, as is so vividly illustrated here.
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| mcgruff wrote: | | I think that's an unintentionally revealing image which gives us a snapshot into the disgust and self-loathing of the Muso unconscious. Observe the Obama-shaped penis being furiously masturbated over the forbidden object of desire. In the inflexible authoritarian mind, unspeakable cultural taboos - in this case communism - become objects of repressed lust in equal measure to their capacity to inspire fear and loathing. Trapped in a straitjacket of extreme right wing beliefs, the mind will instinctively seek for ways to re-balance itself, as is so vividly illustrated here. |
Well done!
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America, where politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.
America, where the black President, black Attorney General, and black 18% of the federal workforce which comes from the black 12% of the population, complain that the Government discriminates against blacks.
America, where the two people most responsible for our tax code, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, are both tax cheats calling for higher taxes.
America, where the primary media response to a Muslim terrorist attack is concern that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
America, where people who want to legally become citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while the Government debates just giving citizenship to everyone who has sneaked in illegally.
America, where people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution are called "extremists".
America, where you must present ID to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
America, where populist demagogues demand investigation of oil companies for "gouging consumers" because the price of gas went up, when their return on equity is less than half that of a footwear company.
America, where the few who pay 86% of all income taxes are accused of not paying their "fair share" by those who don't pay any at all.
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Hahaha, next step: Thought Police. |
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| Quote: | Obama's Thought Police
The trouble with the White House's "Attack Watch" initiative
To whatever high school intern probably came up with the idea, the White House's "Attack Watch" website and Twitter account must have seemed a spark of genius. After all, they yoked together two trendy ideas—rapid response and crowd-sourcing—in service to the president. Give people the opportunity to report false and malicious things others are saying about Obama, so the administration and its supporters can fight back.
What could possibly go wrong?
The intern—whoever it was—must have been too young to remember the left's Bush-era motto: "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
But some adult in the West Wing ought to have stepped in. He or she should have pointed out that encouraging Americans to inform on their fellow citizens carries a whiff not just of Nixonian creepiness but of totalitarian menace.
Police states routinely rely on citizen informants; dungeon cells from Cuba to Saudi Arabia are full of political prisoners arrested for "insulting the president and the regime," "disrupting internal order," and other dysphemisms for speaking your mind.
Fortunately, Attack Watch inspired little more than a "national fit of giggling," as Reason magazine put it. Enemies of the People—i.e., conservatives—immediately began denouncing all manner of offenses against Our Beloved Leader: Someone was squeezing the Charmin in aisle six, reported one. Wrote another: "There's a new Twitter account making President Obama look like a creepy, authoritarian nutjob."
Funny. But also not funny. Because this is not an isolated incident. It is only the latest in a string of episodes in which the administration has made itself look creepily authoritarian.
It started even before the administration was an administration ... more |
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There's nothing wrong with dissent, providing it is dissent, not slander. And the right-wingnutsphere is been slamming on the slander button non-stop for the last 4 years.
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| aidanjt wrote: | | There's nothing wrong with dissent, providing it is dissent, not slander. And the right-wingnutsphere is been slamming on the slander button non-stop for the last 4 years. |
Yeah, and what were the Democrats doing when they forged documents about Bush's military record and turned them over to a famous TV news anchor man? Other than ruining that man's career, that is.
You think Republicans have some kind of patent on political smears? The Democrats are the party of smears. Bush is part of the evil intelligentsia of the New World Order, takes bribes form oil companies, and is the only retard ever to graduate Yale. Sarah Palin takes black cock. The Tea Baggers are "astro turf" white supremacist militia terrorists who spell poorly on signs prepared and carried and photographed by Democrats. When Democrats protest, it is patriotism; when Republicans protest, it is "irrational anger, hate, and shouting down" by "nut-jobs" (even though the violence is always from the left). A right-wing militia man influenced by Sarah Palin's website shot Representative Giffords (even though he was a liberal).
Give me a break.
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Even ABC says Obama's "TruthTeam" is full of shit and is more about countering all attacks (even truthful ones) with whatever they can (even if it's lies and propaganda).
| Quote: | An email from the Obama campaign encapsulates the problem when political campaigns seize the language of fact checkers, muddying the waters.
In the note, sent later in the day today, Obama campaign deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter invites supporters to “report an attack” at the Truth Team report page.
“Received a robo-call or an email forward full of falsehoods?” the page asks. “Found a misleading leaflet in your mail? Tell us about it, and help fight back against the attacks on President Obama and his record.”
Cutter in her email hammers Mitt Romney for saying “Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history,” which she refutes with a Market Watch blog saying that federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since President Eisenhower.
Here’s the problem: the Market Watch item has been refuted by several fact checkers as severely flawed, notwithstanding its citation by White House press secretary Jay Carney along with the assertion that reporters should “not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration. I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness.”
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker gave Carney three Pinocchios, writing that the “data in the article are flawed, and the analysis lacks context — context that could easily could be found in the budget documents released by the White House.”
The Associated Press came to a similar conclusion, saying that “the problem with that rosy claim is that the Wall Street bailout is part of the calculation. The bailout ballooned the 2009 budget just before Obama took office, making Obama’s 2010 results look smaller in comparison. And as almost $150 billion of the bailout was paid back during Obama’s watch, the analysis counted them as government spending cuts. It also assumes Obama had less of a role setting the budget for 2009 than he really did. … The analysis simply looks at the year-to-year topline spending number for the government but doesn’t account for distortions baked into the figures by the Wall Street bailout and government takeover of the mortgage lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
Cutter also hammers Romney on classroom size, saying, “Mitt Romney made some more ridiculous claims and assertions this week, this time on education policy. He even had the nerve to tell a group of educators that: ‘It’s not the classroom size that’s driving the success of those school systems.’”
The problem is that Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, has also suggested classroom size isn’t as important as some necessarily think. “We spent billions of dollars to reduce class size. As a parent, we all love small class size,” Duncan told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “But the best thing you can do is get children in front of an extraordinary teacher. So other countries have higher class sizes but extraordinary talent in those rooms.”
Leonie Haimson, the executive director of Class Size Matters, recently wrote an open letter to President Obama that appeared in the Washington Post, saying, “If you disagree with what Romney said, you should rein in your own education secretary and ask him to take back his erroneous statements on the subject.”
Cutter wrote: “Mitt Romney’s general disregard for the truth is why you all are so important to this campaign. So many Truth Team members have told me: You give us the facts to get the President’s back, and we’ll get it done.”
But voters should generally beware of campaigns claiming that they are fact checking. They have an interest in conflating nonsense — like the bizarre assertion that President Obama was born in Kenya — with legitimate criticisms. They want all attacks to be dismissed as falsehoods — and that is simply not the case. |
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-campaign-truth-team-conflates-smears-with-criticisms-citing-disputed-study/
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | aidanjt wrote: | | There's nothing wrong with dissent, providing it is dissent, not slander. And the right-wingnutsphere is been slamming on the slander button non-stop for the last 4 years. |
Yeah, and what were the Democrats doing when they forged documents about Bush's military record and turned them over to a famous TV news anchor man? Other than ruining that man's career, that is.
You think Republicans have some kind of patent on political smears? The Democrats are the party of smears. Bush is part of the evil intelligentsia of the New World Order, takes bribes form oil companies, and is the only retard ever to graduate Yale. Sarah Palin takes black cock. The Tea Baggers are "astro turf" white supremacist militia terrorists who spell poorly on signs prepared and carried and photographed by Democrats. When Democrats protest, it is patriotism; when Republicans protest, it is "irrational anger, hate, and shouting down" by "nut-jobs" (even though the violence is always from the left). A right-wing militia man influenced by Sarah Palin's website shot Representative Giffords (even though he was a liberal).
Give me a break. |
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| sugar wrote: | | aidanjt wrote: | | There's nothing wrong with dissent, providing it is dissent, not slander. And the right-wingnutsphere is been slamming on the slander button non-stop for the last 4 years. |
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The Democrats set the bar, doing that for six or seven years when Bush was in office. Republicans haven't even come close.
You want actual slander, how about Obama telling all the law enforcement personnel in the whole country to be on the lookout for military veterans and Ron Paul supporters, because they might be domestic terrorists. That's fucking slander.
Nobody listens when some nutjob says "Obama is the Antichrist", and they're only copying Democrats who said that about Bush. Same with the Hitler mockups, the baby-eating photoshops, the vampire biting the neck of the statue liberty, and so on: all originated with Democrats, the Party of Smear, Fear, and Shit-Slinging.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | Nobody listens when some nutjob says "Obama is the Antichrist", and they're only copying Democrats who said that about Bush. Same with the Hitler mockups, the baby-eating photoshops, the vampire biting the neck of the statue liberty, and so on: all originated with Democrats, the Party of Smear, Fear, and Shit-Slinging. |
Thomas Jefferson was pretty awesome alright.
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| sugar wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | | Nobody listens when some nutjob says "Obama is the Antichrist", and they're only copying Democrats who said that about Bush. Same with the Hitler mockups, the baby-eating photoshops, the vampire biting the neck of the statue liberty, and so on: all originated with Democrats, the Party of Smear, Fear, and Shit-Slinging. |
Thomas Jefferson was pretty awesome alright. |
I don't see the relevance. Do you just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, like you're in a psychiatrist's office engaging in "free association"?
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