This picture needed no PhotoShop save for the addition of the digitus indicatus to draw attention to the reason I took it.

Yesterday I was running the gauntlet of street vendors hawking their trinkets outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, when my eye was arrested by the presence -- among the matted prints for sale by one hopeful artist -- of the infamous Joker Obama poster. In front of the Met. In New York.

New York!

Be afraid, Obama.

Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, can't believe the choice of Obama as Nobel Prize recipient was taken seriously.

"Oh, for heaven's sake," says Labour Party politician Jagland. "Everyone needs to lighten up a bit. We thought awarding a Nobel prize to that silly little man in the White House was so painfully obvious a joke that no explanation would be necessary. We thought the whole world would join us in healthy, therapeutic laughter."

Jagland holds up a "Joker" poster of Obama that has been on display in his office for months. "Big Joke" reads the caption.

"Oh, how we need that laughter! These are tense times indeed, when you cannot have a little harmless fun with the Nobel Prize." He shakes his head ruefully and adds, "The real awards will be announced next week. Nothing in the least amusing, I assure you."

There are always a couple of pesky non-civic-minded artists who just won't give proper attention to the social dimension of their work. Individualists! Good thing we have those "Fine Arts Reeducation Camps" coming soon.

"Obama Taints the Arts" according to George Will, and, believe me, that takes some doing!

More Obamanist "State Art" here: ART COMES FROM LIFE OF STRUGGLE!

I suspect... everyone!

(especially Joe)

This candid photo of the infamous "Joker Poster" designer has come into our possession through sources which we are not at liberty to disclose at this time. Although the identity of the Obama desecrator remains unknown at present, we at Contra Obama (soon to be renamed "Not At All Contra Obama, In Fact We Sorta Like Him") are confident this abuser of his first amendment privileges will no longer be operating with "free rein" for very much longer. If you spot this man -- who was last seen dispensing his posters in Toluca Lake from a dun-colored 1934 Chevrolet Series dB Master Commercial closed cab pickup -- please e-mail the White House Department of Dissent Control at flag@whitehouse.gov immediately.

Albert Gore at a White House meeting with President Obama and Vice President Joe is seen almost -- almost, but not quite -- breaking into a full grin when he spots yet another of those mystery "Joker" posters that have so plagued the present administration. This latest example of the ubiquitous handbill, seen in the photo over Joe's left shoulder, was somehow slipped into the White House itself, causing the former Vice President to experience genuine amusement for the first time since Tipper explained the lyrics of "Louis, Louis" to him in 1985.

Well, I'm not going to tell him. You tell him.

Followed by a rousing, "♬ I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker.♫"

     

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Forget that feeble Health Care logo put out by the White House. [Figure 1] I mean, what are all those figures behind the Hopey-O? Spirits of the damned?

And likewise try to ignore that awful Obamacare promotional poster cobbled up by the SEIU. [Figure 2] Would someone please tell the artist it isn't 1972 anymore.

What they should have done is find the Los Angeles Mystery Artist who designed the "Heath Ledger Joker/Obama" poster and ask him to adapt it for Obamacare. You know, add a caduceus or a thanatron or something. [Figure 3] Now THAT's killer graphics!