{"id":2949,"date":"2010-10-12T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2011-01-13T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:46:01","slug":"obama-billboard-more-tea-party-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"Obama Billboard: More Tea Party Hate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another billboard has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjct8.com\/news\/25361864\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">popped up<\/a> on another highway that once again displays the repulsive character of the Tea Party faction of the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Misc\/obama-billboard.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This billboard was spotted in Colorado, on the I-70B between Grand Junction and Clifton. It features four caricatures of President Obama in poses popular amongst Tea Baggers: a Muslim terrorist with explosives strapped to his chest; a pimp\/thug; a Mexican\/illegal alien; and a gay man. So in one image the <em>&#8220;artist&#8221;<\/em> manages to reveal himself as a racist, a religious bigot, anti-Latino, and homophobic. The picture also displays the four Obamas <em>&#8220;gambling&#8221;<\/em> with America&#8217;s treasures and principles. And to top it off it refers to Democrats as <em>&#8220;rats.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This revolting display was put up by a cowardly sleazeball who wishes to remain anonymous. The person responsible is obviously ashamed of his viewpoint, and is afraid to embarrass himself by being associated with it. The same is true for the artist who, while identifying himself (Paul Snover), the sniveling jerkwad attempts to pass off any connection to the work as that of his anonymous patron:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was wanting to represent the influences he saw the president as having in his administration&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The truth is that Snover is also a right-wing crank and Tea Bagger. He is a member of uber-rightist web communities like ResistNet and Campaign For Liberty. His Facebook page shows that he <em>&#8220;Likes&#8221;<\/em> Glenn Beck&#8217;s Restoring Honor rally and the Our Country Deserves Better PAC who launched the Tea Party Express. The fact that Snover can&#8217;t take responsibility for the highly charged opinions in his work illustrates the spinelessness of the movement with which he associates himself.<\/p>\n<p>This billboard is presently being defended online by conservatives throughout the blogosphere. They laud the artist and the anonymous patron as heroes who are merely saying what the rest of America is thinking. Of course that&#8217;s a delusion on their part. However, the next time anyone from these right-wing quarters tries to argue that they aren&#8217;t racist and hateful, send them a link to this billboard. That should shut them up. It won&#8217;t, but it should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another billboard has popped up on another highway that once again displays the repulsive character of the Tea Party faction of the Republican establishment. This billboard was spotted in Colorado, on the I-70B between Grand Junction and Clifton. It features four caricatures of President Obama in poses popular amongst Tea Baggers: a Muslim terrorist with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[534],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-Lz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6162,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6162","url_meta":{"origin":2949,"position":0},"title":"How Stupid Are The Fox\/Tea Party Nuts Who Want To Impeach Obama?","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/10\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In case anyone is still wondering how stupid the Fox News\/Tea Party crowd is, they have announced that they are trying to raise money to fly a banner over the Super Bowl that will say \"Impeach Obama.\" That's right. 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