Is this WaPo analysis of the Obama/Joker poster. The combination of pretentiousness (”the 24/7 hermeneutical speculations of cable television”), utterly idiotic attempts to racialize the poster (”By using the ‘urban’ makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can’t openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city . . .”), and internal contradictions (the Obama “Hope” poster is held up as the ideal, but then the Joker poster is criticized because it adds nothing new to the conversation, doesn’t “tease us with hints about the unseen hand that has crafted the image,” and “leaves you with the sense that it has said everything it has to say,” as though the Hope poster was a meaningful addition to the national discourse and left us wondering about all its subtle nuance) make this piece a winner.
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