How do you like your hope and change Shep? (The Atlantic Wire) – Shepard Fairey’s latest work has not been well received in Denmark. Last weekend, a group of angry thugs called Fairey “Obama illuminati” and then proceeded to beat up him and a friend after the opening of his exhibition in Copenhagen, leaving the world famous graffiti artist with a black eye and a bruised rib. Fairey refused to report the assault to the police–”The only thing I could see coming out of it was further media commentary like ‘street artist whiner Shepard Fairey can’t hold it down in a fight so he snitches to the cops,” Fairey said–so the incident wasn’t reported until Friday when The Guardian got the scoop. On the surface, it seems like Fairey got caught in the middle of a local controversy between leftwingers and the city government. But given the fact that the artist struggled to make amends with both sides, the attack seems to have been borne of Danish leftist radical distaste of both Obama and hipsters. If you were to draw a Venn diagram, Fairey would fit neatly in the middle. The Guardian explains: The LA-based artist believes the attack was sparked by a misunderstanding over his mural commemorating the demolition of the legendary “Ungdomshuset” (youth house) at Jagtvej 69. The building, a long-term base for Copenhagen’s leftwing community, was controversially demolished in 2007. In the intervening years it has become a potent symbol of the standoff between the establishment in Copenhagen and its radical fringe. … Within a day of completion, the mural was vandalized by protesters, with graffiti sending messages of ‘no peace’ and ‘go home, Yankee hipster’. Fairey subsequently collaborated with former members of the 69 youth house to redecorate the lower half of the installation. His new version contains images of riot police and explosions, together with a new, more combative slogan: “Nothing forgotten, nothing forgiven”. In the eyes of the leftwing community, the local city council made Fairey their pawn in order to send an insult to the activists whose base they destroyed four years ago. The local Danish press reports that the council paid Fairey nearly $50,000 for the mural, the first of four planned around Copenhagen, but Fairey denies that his commission came from the city. Fairey had full creative freedom for the works, according to Henrik Chulu with the art blog Frikultur who says the murals are “part of a strategy to brand Copenhagen as progressive and ‘cool’.”
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Obama “Hope” Poster Artist Beaten by Fellow Radical Leftists…
From the diaries, by Erick I’m not entirely sure what scares me more about Then-Senator, now President Barack Obama’s speeches during the campaign. There are the untrue and completely ridiculous things the man said he was promising. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. (HT: Brietbart) Or maybe, even worse, is the fact that he actually believed his own pigeon talk. This stupidity on his part is proven by the fact that he actually pursued the Copenhagen Accord on Climate Change as if it really *were* going to slow the rise of the oceans.
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Today Is *Not* The Day That The Sea Level Will Begin To Recede
Click here to watch. Live now! The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16) will meet in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 – December 10 2010; and Americans for Prosperity is taking our Hot Air Tour there to meet them. International bureaucrats are heading down to the COP meeting in Cancun for a series of conferences aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions; transferring wealth and technology from developed to developing nations; and raising the cost of traditional energy in order to prop up politically popular new sources. The Hot Air Tour stop on December 2 will remind everyone that cap-and-trade means: Lost Jobs, Higher Taxes and Less Freedom. AFP’s Hot Air Tour has traveled across the country since 2008 and to the The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen exposing the economic costs of global warming alarmism. For more information on the Hot Air Tour please visit HotAirTour.org
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Barack Obama’s remarkable powers of oratory are well known: In support of Chicago’s Olympic bid, he flew into Copenhagen to give a heartwarming speech about himself, and the games were given to Rio. He flew into Boston to support Martha Coakley’s bid for the U.S. Senate, and Massachusetts voters …
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STEYN: Lost in Obama's imagination
