I'll keep this brief. Vanity Fair depicted George Bush, then president, as Heath Ledger's Joker from the Dark Knight, and there was nary a peep. Fine. No big deal. Entirely appropriate.
But some wit does the same thing to Obama, adding the word "Socialism" to the bottom, and it's a crime against humanity. Admittedly, it's anonymous, but the difference in reactions is very interesting.
Certainly, the Obama poster doesn't look any worse than the Bush picture. But . . . it's somehow much, much worse.
The poster is cropping up around Los Angeles. So Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson calls the poster "dangerous". Huh?
"Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," says Hutchinson, "it is mean-spirited and dangerous."
I'm sure he made these points after the Vanity Fair article with the picture of Bush as the Joker. Or complained about pictures represented as a chimp and a Nazi. Or complained about the plays about assassinating Bush, or the books fantasizing about killing Bush . . . uh, no? He hasn't.
Seriously, they are. Which is a good thing. Using a modern secular myth to justify looting the private sector and punishing the tax payer is reprehensible, and the more people who wake up to the same, the better.
The Jawa Report has a breakdown on how Axelrod and the Obama campaign are trying to make fake grassroots campaigns to smear Sarah Palin, while, at the same time, leaving a trail of smoking guns everywhere. No wonder the left like's to tell us they are the smartest and most ethical folks out there!
The Journal of Feminist Insight blog has a breakdown of softballs Charlie Gibson tossed Obama vs. the prosecutorial nature of his questions for Palin. Pretty damning stuff, indeed. For Obama: How does it feel to win? For Palin: Do you have enough qualifications for the job your seeking? And on and on and on.
Not classy, Charlie.
Apparently to folks of the left, the ends will always justify the means. Ruin people, lie, cheat, steal, anything short of murder (and, hmm, who knows, maybe that, too) is okay if it means you get universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Learning that, on the left, the end always justifies the means is why I'm not a liberal today.
