…of iconography. Live by the icon, die by the icon.
By the way, I know that some people don’t like to have to watch a video, and would rather read, and I generally am in their camp. But I think that this is a more powerful presentation than it would be if Bill had simply done it in an essay. It’s only eight minutes.
[Update late morning]
I’ve added a clickable graphic as sort of a teaser. I actually think that it would be better with ROFL…
[Bumped]
[Update mid afternoon]
A new Obama logo: line by line.
Bill Whittle… just… Rocks. I’d never seen the W joker poster. “Why So Socialist?” LOL. I second Rands recommendation, 8 minutes well spent.
I, three, recommend taking the time to watch the video. It’s interesting, provocative, and chilling.
Where can I find the ROFL bumper sticker….
I think that would be an invitation to get your car keyed.
One of our local radio guys came up with an S.O.L. bumper sticker.
That’s one thing I really, really hate about PJM – the incessant pushing of video.
“Can I turn Obama’s iconography against him? Yes ICON!”
I think that’s the first time I’ve every gotten a PJTV video to play beginning-to-end without it hanging or crashing the browser. And it only took three attempts this time.
Bravo, PJTV. Way to keep expectations low.
Bill Whittle says Obama was the first president to be branded. I don’t think this is true, even if you restrict that term to meaning using commercial marketing techniques. JFK was branded, his father once said “we’re going to sell Jack the way they sell washing powder” or words to that effect.
Certainly, Obama has taken the concept far beyond Joe Kennedy’s wildest dreams.
Brock, I use Mozilla and have never had a bit of trouble watching PJTV. Perhaps when you tried it was hammered with other people also trying to watch? Bill Whittle just keeps getting better. Perhaps we should send him to DC as our Senator? Heh.
“Perhaps we should send him to DC as our Senator?”
I live in Virginia – maybe we could share him as a Senator (with 2 votes, of course)?
Anything but Webb….
No, Barbara, Eject! Eject! Eject!
I want to make Bill Whittle’s man babies.
Oh BTW, if you scroll down his history he has a great interview with XCOR.
He sure does. You get to see Aleta on it too!
Yes, but regrettably, he didn’t pay due obeisance to Mouser.
Shame!
Well, I wish they would post transcripts because I don’t watch videos. But that would take too much effort. Oh wait…
One common feature of totalitarian governments is posters and statues of their “dear leader” everywhere. I’ve often wondered if those posters and statues were ordered by the leaders themselves or their sychophants. Thankfully, we’re no where near that point yet but it seems the same tendency to create a cult of personality exists here.
The anti-Obama bumper sticker examples he showed were lame compared to the one my neighbor has: Oh shit.
It’s perfect. It accurately expresses many people’s sentiments and mocks the O logo at the same time.
Finally got 8 solid minutes to watch the whole thing… well sort of, just as I started last night, I got a phone town hall call from my Congressman. I listened to the stale discussion for awhile, then muted the town hall to listen to Whittle.
The beauty of Obama having his own logo is that it holds no value to others. Using Monty’s “Oh shit”, who would want to replace the “O” with the Presidential Seal? So Obama, in his attempt to brand his own logo, has given us a device of ridicule that denotes him alone.