Posted on September 20th, 2009 by Gavin M.
Ach, I guess we shouldn’t let this one get too stale. Can’t finish everything to a high degree of doneness.
Ed Morrissey, HotAir:
Picture of the day
I got this earlier tonight from Hot Air reader Dave T in Los Angeles, who swears he saw this across the street from CBS Studios in West Hollywood. He sent it from his iPhone, with this note:
I’m always surprised to see conservative guerilla art in LA. But considering it’s only been a week since O’Keefe and Giles’ first ACORN tape was released, seeing this was downright shocking.
If this is on the level, it’s certainly positioned for maximum effect:
It’s not that it’s difficult to fool Special Ed. In fact he’s learned to fool himself, to foolsturbate, since entering Michelle Malkin’s employ and therefore her clutches, and finding himself required to spin the balls and honk the horns like the other seals there.1
But it’s interesting, given the suspicion raised at Eastsider LA that the anti-Acorn stencilings are just Fairey being airy, that is to say artsturbating, to see that Hot Air reader Dave T believed implicitly that they were markings of his own tribe,2 yet further, that he found them “shocking.” It’s, uh, like, a verbatim Acorn logo with an ironic label underneath. If this is shocking, then what is it when you’re chased up the basement stairs by skeletons on pogo sticks?
No, but being a wingnut, Dave T would naturally find it difficult to say, “I haven’t seen anything like this before, and don’t know where it came from.” Because as conservatives always remind liberals, they deal in ‘facts’ (i.e. certainties), while we are all about ‘feelings’ and ‘relativism’ (i.e., the sense of imperfect knowledge and unsettled fate that divides us from the Medieval — meaning the wingnut and his theological reasoning and neo-feudalist social ideals — and that makes the ancient Greeks seem the most, among historical kladoi,3 like people we’d enjoy hanging out with).
Instead, he had to wedge in an imaginary continuum of “conservative guerilla art” that he thinks must exist and therefore does, although he would truthfully be surprised to see some, and so is surprised whenever he does see some of it, every single time, for instance here with this super-surprising anti-Acorn stencil.
It’s not that conservative guerilla art is unknown. It’s that Hot Air reader Dave T seems like that guy.
On the level or not, it made my evening.
Update: Via Midas in the comments, Media Bistro reports it’s legit — and it’s gone viral in LA:
The link goes to a Mediabistro Fishbowl LA report on the same Eastsider LA piece, and does not report:
1) That it is legit,
2) That it has ‘gone viral’ in LA.
Ah well. You get the feeling that the guys at HotAir are on a bit of a treadmill, in terms of Malkin yelling at them for not meeting quota.
Let’s go to Free Republic and see what the even-slightly-more-crazies are saying:
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