Shepard Fairey gets pooped on in this summary of the DNC convention by the editors at Taki. I think it’s worth noting that Fairey assumed this administration would be down with Obey’s vandalism brand but no.
Even cool presidents who play basketball like to arrest people for bullshit. A lot of graffiti annoys me but I don’t want these people thrown in jail. Besides, most of what Fairey does while you’re sleeping improves its surroundings. The fact that he almost went to prison for making a painting of a picture is a sign we are arresting way too many people.
While everyone is prattling on about gay adoption and fake racism, not one politician has discussed the millions and millions of people behind bars. How many people are in jail right now for selling marijuana? What about gang violence associated with selling illegal drugs? The last line of this article sums up the problem with this entire election…
AN OVERDOSE OF HOPE
The Democrats are done weaving their web in Charlotte, and wow, what a web it was—an intricate lattice of multicolored Silly String that included everyone and said nothing.
Did you know that Democrats like the blacks? And the Hispanics? And the gays? And women? We didn’t know that. Now we do.
Did you know the Democrats have a plan to make the next four years better than the last four? Really? We didn’t. And after watching their convention, we still don’t.
All we know after watching it is that we all need to go forward together. ALL of us. Together. United. As one. No dissent. And no cutting in line. Forward. Together. MOVE it!
We’ve all moved forward out of the Stone Age and progressed as a society to the point where black men can make death threats against Barack Obama, Hispanic female delegates feel unafraid to say they want to kill Mitt Romney, and everyone’s cool with it! Because politics is all about being cool. As actor Kal “Kumar” Penn—whose nose is buried so far up Obama’s ass that it’s sticking out of his mouth—enthused from the convention sidelines, he “felt like it was cool to be engaged in politics” the first time he laid his fawning brown eyes upon Barack Obama. What a cool thing to say!
yep, there’s a lot of problems in the world
He didn’t “almost [go] to prison for making a painting of a picture”, he almost went to prison for “destroying documents and manufacturing evidence”.
Fairy wasn’t charged with vandalism, he was charged with unfair use of a photograph(yes a mundane photograph but the rights were not public domain); then he was charged for contempt of court for giving false testimony, destroying evidence and manufacturing new evidence. The latter charges are crimes that carries serious sentences for the rest of us, so cry me a river for his $25,000 fine and two years probation with no time. His slap on the wrist actually highlights the unfairness of charges and sentencing for low level drug offenses, and how people with competent legal defense and funds avoid paying the heaviest penalties for their crimes, while poor, under educated people stuck with a public defender almost always do!
Puh-leeze ‘mare-a-ka. Put a dang ol’ whyte boy back in the freakin’ WHITE HOUSE so this cunt-ry boy can quit drankin’ his blues away.
I went to college in Boston in the 90′s and those “andre the Giant has a posse” things were everywhere. It was funny the first time but I got really sick of it. and then it was everywhere. I prefer just regular graffiti to any of this high concept stuff