Idiotic Right-Wing Poster Designed by a Palestinian-American?

The new right-wing icon that represents their fear and animosity towards President Obama is a poster of the president wearing the clown makeup of the Joker character in the last Batman film. The vicious, sadistic character unleashes public disorder by undermining the government and overturning the basic mores of society. For right-wingers, that is socialism.

The analogy is a flawed one since they also accuse him of centralizing government, of creating a big order. This is something the Joker had no interest in. He preferred the dystopian vision of anarchy, the one that has protesters at town hall meetings armed with hand guns, and using them.

Poor Alternatives

Anne Applebaum, liberal-ish Washington Post and Slate correspondent, former-USSR expert, and wife of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently published the most ridiculous op-ed of all time, entitled “Morocco, an Alternative to Iran.”  On Slate, it was published as “Morocco Makes Peace With Its Past” (perhaps even more proposterous), and I perhaps wouldn’t have [...]