A viral “Obama Joker” poster campaign last month calls for people to put up as many posters of U.S. President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s villainous character from the Batman epic The Dark Knight as possible in public and to post videos on YouTube.
If you’re offended by the startling images of U.S. President Barack Obama smeared with clown makeup posted around Toronto, American libertarian radio talk show host and “alternative news” blogger Alex Jones says brace yourself.
A viral “Obama Joker” poster campaign last month calls for people to put up as many posters of U.S. President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s villainous character from the Batman epic The Dark Knight as possible in public and to post videos on YouTube.
If you’re offended by the startling images of U.S. President Barack Obama smeared with clown makeup posted around Toronto, American libertarian radio talk show host and “alternative news” blogger Alex Jones says brace yourself.
“People are getting more aggressive because they realize being nice isn’t getting them anywhere,” said Jones, 35. “This is just the beginning.”
The self-proclaimed “freedom lover” from Austin, Tex., who runs American website infowars.com, launched a viral “Obama Joker” poster campaign last month, calling for people to put up as many posters of Obama as Heath Ledger’s villainous character from the Batman epic The Dark Knight as possible and to post videos on YouTube.
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While Canadians have been known to be more moderate in critiquing their political leaders, the in-your-face poster campaign appears to have caught on around the city, with the placards plastered along University Ave.
When asked how this aggressive way of political commentary seemed to have spread across the border, Jones said it was because people were tired of being stifled and “freedom of speech” was a global movement.
Jones said he and his crew had put up Obama Joker posters a while ago, but didn’t launch the contest until the media and government started calling for the “censorship” of his campaign against Obama’s “tyranny” and “broken promises.”
“The news media was acting like a bank robbery or something had happened ... We never saw hyperventilating when we were doing that to Bush,” Jones told the Star in a phone interview.
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