Commie Propaganda Redux: Obama Style

June 23, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Opinion, Politics, Propaganda, U.S. News

Everyone should read the post by Warner Todd Hudson over at Red State. He compares the advertising propaganda surrounding Barack Obama with cold-war era communist propaganda. He makes a very compelling argument and offers side-by-side photo comparisons. It’s actually pretty amazing how similar some of the stuff is.

Here’s a little taste:

…The American press has traditionally been even harder on our politicians and government than even the average American. Since the first days of our country, the press has savaged, doubted, dug up dirt and attacked our politicians, seeming to never believe a word the pols say. From George Washington to George Bush, the press has been at odds with politicians. Yet, for some unexplainable reason, the pretentiousness and presumption of Barack Obama is being allowed to pass uncommented upon. The media especially is allowing him to make all sorts of claims that they should never allow anyone else to get away with. They are unquestioning with his claim to be the candidate of “change” and the candidate that will “reach across the aisle.” Neither claim can be substantiated by the man’s career thus far. He does not reach across the aisle and he is responsible for no great program of change. A properly skeptical press would ask for the proof of Obmam’s claims, but they merely smile and allow him to ramble on as if what he is saying is unassailable.

But the media is especially compliant where it concerns the Obama campaign’s graphic designs, displays that can be so easily compared to religious iconography or even old style communist propaganda. The overblown, obscenely reverential posters featuring Obama’s upturned face in Jesus-like poses have gone uncommented upon by what should be a hard-nosed, doubtful media. These over-the-top graphic images in the form of posters and campaign literature design are amazing for their obvious propagandistic style, yet the media seem not to find any reason to be off put by the absurdity of these graphics. Nor have they noticed the campaign art’s similarity to communist imagery. One can’t help but wonder why this blatant re-use of the graphic style used by Stalin, Hitler and Mao has raised not the slightest question in the minds of the American media?

I’m not trying to suggest that Barack Obama is a communist, but I think the way the media has behaved during this election so far is troubling to say the least. MSNBC has become the full-time propaganda arm of the Obama campaign and doesn’t even try to hide it.

It’s funny I read this article today, because ever since I saw Barack Obama standing behind that new seal of his I kept seeing images of cold war propaganda. I don’t think I’ve ever been as creeped out by anything in my life. It has such a “one world government” fascist feel to it.

-Chris Jones