Obama Joker Poster Artist Exposed As Liberal-Leaning Palestinian By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) August 18, 2009 - 00:04 ET
Since NewsBusters and the Drudge Report first introduced America to the Obama Joker poster -- with help from talk radio host Tammy Bruce, of course -- most media outlets have speculated the artist was likely white, conservative, and racist.
WRONG!
As reported by the Los Angeles Times moments ago, the up-until-now anonymous creator of the poster sweeping the nation is a 20-year-old college student of Palestinian descent with largely liberal political leanings.
Honestly, you can't make this stuff up: .........>>>>.........>>>>...........http://ow.ly/15LpRX
Some thoughts on free speech By Elizabeth Held Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I stumbled upon an article on Tech Crunch regarding my favorite soapbox topic: free speech.
You can read the article by clicking HERE or my summary of it. Essentially, some guy posted a Photoshop-ed picture of President Obama, making him look like Heath Ledger’s Joker in "The Dark Knight." The image was on a Time magazine cover. Flickr claimed that because the image involved the Time template, it violated copyright law and had to be taken off the site. The writer is angry because satirical images of President Brush involving fake magazine covers were allowed to remain on Flickr. Additionally, there have been allegations that Flickr users critical of Obama were blacklisted from the site. If these allegations are true, they amount to nothing more than partisan censorship. The Internet is the information superhighway, and social networking sites are becoming more and more important to the spread of information. So when sites like Flickr limit the free flow of information, we all suffer..............>>>>.......................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/held/2009/aug/25/some-thoughts-free-speech/
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