Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

[Subdeacon Joe]

Artist best known for the posters that helped elect Barack Obama is accused of peddling pro-government propaganda

 

 

When graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim and a letter of thanks from Barack Obama. When he employed a similar tactic in Denmark, however, the response proved altogether less edifying.

 

Last weekend, Fairey – creator of the famous "Hope" poster that came to encapsulate Obama's 2008 presidential campaign – was beaten up after the opening of his exhibition at a Copenhagen gallery.

 

Earlier this month he was involved with a controversial mural that has enraged leftwing anarchists throughout the city.

 

"I have a black eye and a bruised rib," Fairey told the Guardian.

 

According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside the Kodboderne 18 nightclub in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Fairey claims the men called him "Obama illuminati" and ordered him to "go back to America".

 

All I have to say is

 

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

But... but... but Dang, Joe... ain't them Europeans supposed to be SO much more enlightened than we pagan Americans~?

[Subdeacon Joe]

But... but... but Dang, Joe... ain't them Europeans supposed to be SO much more enlightened than we pagan Americans~?

 

I thought so.

[Uno Mas SASS #80082]

Those Bastards!!!!

 

 

 

 

... they want to send him back to 'merica!!!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Now he can make a claim for asylum from persecution in his home country.

 

 

[Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life]

Well... there ya go... that kinda thing happens to Fairey's.

 

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