Joker-bama kerfuffle

Good post on the Obama-as-Joker poster from Ed Driscoll.

Mr. Driscoll quotes the following:

Mark Hemingway tosses L.A. Weekly’s hypocrisy right back at them:

And while we’re talking about double standards, I notice that L.A. Weekly blog which looked at the the Obama Joker poster and declared it so obviously racist that “the only thing missing is a noose” didn’t seem to have a problem with an actual, as opposed to feverishly imagined, depiction of lynching Sarah Palin.

Taking a step back from the Palin lynching; how, exactly, is this image racist?

Ledger's Joker gives me a serious case of the creeps. So does Barack Obama. But any possible racial aspect eludes me.

The SOCIALISM part, though: I get that, totally.

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