Campaign proves grass roots can send powerful message even in an age of corporate controlled media lockdown
The Obama Joker posters are still spreading virallyacross the country and the world as the authorities panic at the powerof the grass roots to reach the masses almost in an instant, flying inthe face of an establishment media which is controlled by a handful ofpowerful corporations.
The success of the Obama Joker poster campaign, startedanonymously in Los Angeles and amplified after it was incorporated intoan Infowars contest, can be measured against the achievements ofAmerica’s foremost contemporary street artist, Shepard Fairey,who was responsible for designing the Obama “HOPE” flyers that wereposted in public places before the 2008 presidential election, an imagelabeled “the most efficacious American political illustration since‘Uncle Sam Wants You’” by New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl.
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Fairey was largely dismissive of the Obama Jokerposter, rather pedantically arguing that it wasn’t grammaticallycorrect because the word should have been “socialist” not “socialism,”but he was forced to admit that the posters sent a powerful message.
“The artwork is great in that it gets a point across really quickly,” Fairey told the L.A. Times. “The Joker is a sinister, evil character that can’t be trusted. And if they want to make that parallel with Obama — bam.”