HOPE artist insults Obama/Joker artist
Shepard Fairey is the artist who created the famous red and blue poster of Obama that says HOPE at the bottom. He was asked recently about the now infamous joker Obama poster that says socialism at the bottom…
“I have my doubts about the person’s intelligence,” Fairey said on the phone from Pittsburgh. “It’s not grammatically correct. It would be ’socialist’ … Obama is not Marx. He didn’t create socialism.”
Semantics aside, “I don’t agree with the political content of the poster,” Fairey said. “They don’t realize that Medicaid is a socialist program.” The federal Medicaid program, of course, predates the current administration by several decades. (LA Times)
I just love that someone would doubt the intelligence of the artist and then proceed to state things that cast doubt about his own intelligence. In Shepard Fairey’s fantasy world, the fact that forms of socialism already exist in America means that Obama is not a socialist. Fairey is assuming because the joker poster has socialism written at the bottom, the artist must not be aware that Medicaid is a socialist program. To understand Fairey’s logic, allow me to illustrate.
If Barack Obama were to have sex with a White House intern, it would not actually be sex, because Bill Clinton already did that.
Perhaps Mr. Fairey is trying to lure the anonymous artist out. Its hard to tell, with piercing insults like “It’s not grammatically correct.” Hey Fairey, since putting a word at the bottom of a poster, in your mind, means the artist is calling that person that word, you must of screwed up with your HOPE poster. Obama didn’t invent hope, after all.