07 August 2008

Obama Hate: "Obama Loves America Like O.J. Loved Nicole"

This is the screenshot that snapped my neck back last night when I read it:





The verbiage is no longer up at the site that posted this. The webmaster has an apology posted instead.

I had been surfing Obama hate sites for the last couple of weeks, with an eye to doing a story on these sites and their purpose.

"Obama Loves America Like O.J. Loves Nicole" stopped me in my tracks - after a minute, I had to give the wordsmith behind that some credit - after all, he managed to tie fully formed images of politics, sex, murder and celebrity all together with just seven words. But it still curdles my blood just to have to think about it.





This one should be mandatory on all the "NoBama" sites - I mean, what black man doesn't think about a naked white woman on her knees when he is in the middle of a boring meeting?





A voice popped into my head when I saw this one - the voice of George Jefferson on The Jeffersons making a comment about their neighbor's daughter, Jenny Willis, his little afro wearing head thrust forward, his lips poised in a sarcastic sneer after delivering one of the three obligatory jokes about interracial marriage they had in each episode. A little alliteration goes a long way in the hate game - this is one you might be seeing again down the road.





I've made a couple of passing references about the expert way language has been used to emphasize exactly what kind of hate mongering the designer intended, but the fact of the matter is, our mainstream media gives this subterranean bigotry a lot of help with their constant use of veiled references and loaded phrases, fertilizing the minds of the less able with enough inaccuracies and half truths to allow them to believe that Obama is an elitist, or a narcissist, or in this case, a thin skinned crybaby.






This picture gets back to basics, George Wallace style - a good old straight, no chaser shot of racial fear mongering - although the fear here seems to be a little over the top, since many people have discounted the actual effect of slavery on America's blacks. This one has no sophistication. It is designed to hit the viewer at the gut level - even if the intended white viewer is a staunch believer in diversity and all things politically correct, it will hit even them for a split second, firing off an instant synaptic salvo to the darker regions of their subconsciousness.






Not much in the way of style, but it packs heat nonetheless - kind of made me think of Warren Beatty in Bulworth, when Senator Bulworth wrapped a dookey chain around his neck and turned his hat to the side like a homeboy, except it was Warren Beatty's senatorial looking face you stared at as he attempted to freestyle rap. Somehow, Warren made this social satire into a love story, falling for Halle Berry. I've never owned a dookey chain or a pimp cup - I wonder if I can rent these things for the inauguration?

It is the image below, more than any other (except the O.J. comment at the beginning) that strikes at the heart of the matter, although I mainly posted this next pic so my buddy, who will not believe me when I tell him about it, can see for himself:






The Photoshop efforts are far and few between - an example like the one below, an irreverent take on the Lion from The Wizard of Oz, is almost welcome





compared to some of the Middle Eastern terrorist (as opposed to the American redneck variety - the Timothy McVeigh's, the Eric Rudolph's) type of stuff that seems to be the latest fad in the land of Obama Hate.








These Obama Haters are churning out all of these images and more every day for one purpose:












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