This poster has been plastered all over LA this week and now, as a result, on the Net. First, let me just say that this poster represents a fairly low form of political speech, and I personally don't even find it to be that funny. But you have to love the reaction it's garnering from the far left (which is the only reason I'm blogging about it).
For example, how about the President of the LA Urban Policy Roundtable (first link below), Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who says today that the poster "goes beyond political spoofery . . . it is mean-spirited and dangerous." Then Hutchinson issues a "public challenge" (who is he, Vince McMahon?) and demands that the creator of the poster "come forth" and identify himself. And precisely why would that person want to do that, Sir? So that he can get the full-out Sarah Palin treatment? (By the way, the latest in that saga: A blogger yesterday on salon.com compared Palin to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- apparently that's appropriate "political spoofery" since the target is one the far left hates).
You have to love how viciously the far left can dish it out while being so thin-skinned when some of it comes back their way. It starts at the top with perhaps the most thin-skinned president in American history. Today he's using public resources to make videos to respond to postings on the Drudge Report (second link below). So to summarize, apparently it's OK for the far left to go around acting like hateful, mean-spirited morons, but if anyone else does it, Katy Bar the Door! As I like to say: H-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e-s.
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