{"id":9263,"date":"2011-11-22T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2011-11-22T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T04:00:10","slug":"the-99-and-stuff-and-the-confused-befuddled-shepard-fairey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/11\/22\/the-99-and-stuff-and-the-confused-befuddled-shepard-fairey\/","title":{"rendered":"the 99 and stuff and the confused befuddled Shepard Fairey"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rebuttal to some commentary abounding about the … Democratic Party sympathies… of “Occupy”.\u00c2\u00a0 We see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Occupy protestors butted in during an Obama appearance at a Manchester<\/a>, New Hampshire school earlier today, heckling the president over the arrests of OWS\u00c2\u00a0protesters. A similar disruption happened at a Ron Paul appearance<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in Keane;\u00c2\u00a0Paul responded to the hecklers with disarming sympathy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I ponder this mechanism, though.\u00c2\u00a0 If we’re replaying the 60s and the election of Kennedy is the election of Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 We skip to the end of the decade, and the crack-up of some of the same youth’s “idealism” takes place and the radicalization of a part of the nation.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m tempted to say some of it replays as farce, but it was partially farce the last time around too.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the system…\u00c2\u00a0 I personally am neither here nor there, I can praise and damned Obama all I right.<\/p>\n

Shepard Fairey and the Obama “Hope” poster.\u00c2\u00a0 And his new image:<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00c2\u00a0 Problematic for a number of reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 Firstly, the “Hope” image has been satirized to death — and justly so, and righteously done, for any number of political figures.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not too hard to imagine the simple act of tossing the Guy Fawkes image into the “Obamanize” program you can find online.\u00c2\u00a0 Thus, what’s the point with Fairey reimagining it when someone in the conspiratorial zone probably already hatched onto this one?<\/p>\n

Secondly… “Mister President, We HOPE You’re On Our Side.”<\/p>\n

The Reason Magazine blog is having a field day with this one, putting up the Reason cover about liberal disenchantment<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, the articles in the magazine focuses largely on drug policy which is… confluence of where libertarians and “progressives” meet, I suppose… conveniently.<\/p>\n

The problem with Obama’s more radical supporters… I didn’t get them in ’08.\u00c2\u00a0 Like… he’s a politician.\u00c2\u00a0 He may be a good politician, and may turn out to be a good president, but he’s not going to transform the nation into your radical utopia.\u00c2\u00a0 These supporters didn’t make sense to me.\u00c2\u00a0 I start longing for the right’s caricature as a Chicago pol when I sense something like this.<\/p>\n

Thirdly: Fuck Guy Fawkes.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.\u00c2\u00a0 The greatest part of the recent South Park episode was that lone Guy Fawkes nut at the fourth graders’ “Occupy” rally.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it’s so Stupid as political theater.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s interesting is that I think Guy Fawkes broke into our political protest memes out from Ron Paul supporters picking out the movie adaptation for V for Vendetta.\u00c2\u00a0 Got that, Mr. Fairey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rebuttal to some commentary abounding about the … Democratic Party sympathies… of “Occupy”.\u00c2\u00a0 We see it here. Occupy protestors butted in during an Obama appearance at a Manchester, New Hampshire school earlier today, heckling the president over the arrests of OWS\u00c2\u00a0protesters. A similar disruption happened at a Ron Paul appearance\u00c2\u00a0in Keane;\u00c2\u00a0Paul responded to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9266,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}