From NRO’s The Corner:
To be more precise, the iconic Obama HOPE poster/T-shirt was, as the AP charged, created by an artist who stole a copyrighted AP photo image. The case has gone on as long as it did because Shepard Fairey, the artist, lied about which photo he used for the picture, and destroyed the evidence. His pro-bono attorneys, who are members of Stanford Law School’s “Fair Use” project, dropped the case when it became clear that it was based on a fabric of lies. (Honest lawyer alert!)
Sorry be this obvious, and hit NRO readers over the head with such a big, fat, ripe metaphor, but there you are: Hope based on lies and theft — the Obama political brand in a nutshell.
And that is the truth – never in the course of human events has a government been based on quite so much mythology as Obama’s Administration. That, in fact, he’s pretty much a zero who lucked out is hidden under a blizzard fabrications and Hollywood hype – as I said a while back ago, Obama won because he was, in 2008, the “Unknown Democrat” who always polls better than the known GOPer. His handlers managed to keep the truth about Obama under wraps until he was safely elected – dodging a series of revelations which would have been career-ending, save for the fact that Obama had the most glowing, sycophantic press seen this side of a totalitarian dictatorship.
But the truth is coming out, now, and thus it is somehow very appropriate that the iconic poster is shown to be based on lies and theft…
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