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They Go There

This today from The Hill : The Secret Service may investigate a fax sent to a Democratic lawmaker that depicts President Barack Obama as the Joker and warns of “death to all Marxists.” The black-and-white fax portrays Obama in makeup similar … Continue reading

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Obama as the Joker and Nancy Pelosi as a Nazi

No to fascism! Where do you bring a poster that says this? To protest a march of Nazis through a Jewish neighborhood? To protest a convention of Holocaust deniers? To protest Adolf Hitler? Well, no. If you’re part of the psychologically … Continue reading

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds—Republican Style!

At Salon today, Joan Walsh suggests that the Republican base’s general hysteria over Barack Obama could lead to even more incidents of violence than we’ve already seen over the past few months: The “town hells,” in short, don’t represent populism, they’re a display … Continue reading

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CNN Reports on the Barack Obama Joker Image Circulating

When I first saw the image of President Barack Obama as a blood-mouthed cannibal death zombie in minstrel white-face, I thought swastika. In other words, this image functions, like a swastika, to shock and declare one’s eternal struggle against bourgeois democracy (with its messy … Continue reading

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