When iconic images collide . . .
Posted by Deuce Geary on August 6th, 2009
Well, in this case, the end result seems rather obvious.

Think they’ll stop complaining now that the white face is gone? Nah, me either.
UPDATE: I changed the original Joker image to include the “Socialism” caption. I’m still catching up on my reading about this, and didn’t realize the caption was part of the original artwork. Speaking of catching up on my reading, Allahpundit had some terrific commentary on the absurdity of finding racism in so many criticisms of Obama:
[The WaPo column] reminds me of when McCain’s “Celebrity” ad debuted and the left went on a three-day bender trying to top each other with ever more inventive theories about the alleged racial subtext. It’s a parlor game for progressive nerds: Take any conservative attack on Obama, assume racism, and then connect as many dots as you need to in order to get from point A to point B. Here it’s Obama = Joker; Joker = terrorizes city; terrorizing cities = stereotype of blacks; ergo, Obama = stereotype of blacks. It’s like “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” but with political benefits.
UPDATE #2: Yikes! Fixed a typo that might have left the wrong impression. “They’ll” used to be “they’s,” which approximated the Amos & Andy style of speech.
WaPo had a slightly different, but equally twisted line of reasoning: Joker = urban and urban = black . . . since of course a non-urban joker would have terrorized cornfields in Iowa instead of a city.
There’s an interesting take on this, along with a “Bush as the Joker” image I hadn’t even heard about that the left had no problem with, over at Big Hollywood: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/08/06/wapo-bush-joker-kinda-made-sense-obama-joker-racist/
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