The Left: Hypocrites
Remember when folks were hanging Sarah Palin?
Did The Left complain?
Remember when The Left laughed at the BusHitler and Devil pictures and jokes?
Did The Left complain?
Now The Left complains because someone has dared to satirize our President.
File under: First Amendment for me, but not for thee.
UPDATE:
Bookworm notes more hypocrisy:
Predictably, liberals are already crying “racism.” As for me, maybe I’m just out of touch with pop culture, but the Joker character never ranked up there in my mind with Uncle Tom or Sambo or any other stereotypical character created by racist whites to denigrate blacks. Just to refresh your recollection, this is what one of those images looks like:
If you don’t recognize that vile image, it’s Michael Steele, as reimagined by a liberal blogger. Now that’s a racist insult.
We are being reminded, yet again, that anything negative about Obama is ipso facto racist.
UPDATE II:
And, The Anchoress tutors:
But this is making a clear reference to a known fictional character called The Joker, and there is clearly the word “Socialism” beneath the portrait. This is political commentary; whoever came up with it is using a familiar visual image, and giving us an actual word which delivers a two-point message: he or she thinks the president is a joke, and a socialist.
This -until very recently- used to be called “free speech.” It is protected in this country, and thought very highly of. And protest or dissent, we have been told, is the very highest form of patriotism.
For that matter, using The Joker for political commentary has been done before, and more menacingly:
We just went through 8 years of President Bush being called Hitler and photoshopped as Hitler, as Mussolini, as Saturn Devouring One of His Own Children.
Obama’s predecessor endured 8 Years of Assassination Fascination. Actually, the “Assassinate Bush Chic” began even before the 2000 election, when Craig Kilborn flashed “snipers wanted” under a picture of Bush. So-called “newsmen” like Keith Olbermann repeatedly called the president “a fascist” and “a terrorist.” And Obama supporters can’t handle The Joker and the word “Socialism”?
Politics is ugly, and it is often over-the-top but that’s not new. Photoshop happens; it’s a free country. I myself have been photoshopped next to a dancing condom, a commentary on my annoying habit of being a Catholic.
UPDATE III:
Oh, and who can forget this:
