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Entry: America's First Affirmative Action Candidate Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/americas_first_affirmative_action_candidate#33027 Post contents: On one of the morning radio programs here in LA, KROQ to be exact, one of the morning crew cracked a "joke" that during the Reform Party convention in Long Beach the sale of table cloths went through the roof. This was implying that anyone who would support Pat was a Ku Kluxy. This type of boring, predictable and degrading cheap shot is common place against conservatives. Shepard Fairey, an "artist" and Obama supporter, is really big on the doing "political art" similar to the New Yorker cover above. Do a Google image search on him and you will see the AK-47s, the Malcom X portraits, Che Guevara, etc. The people who are into this type of political iconography are typically Obama supporters, so the association is definitely plausible. Native-born white Christians don't have any group rights but every other group does. In other words, conservatives can be portrayed as Klansmen, Nazis and have their positions distorted beyond all recognition, but it will be protected as "political expression". But if someone tries to portray a black, Hispanic, woman, gay, Jew or Muslim in a similar fashion might end up in jail for "hate speech". The Wall Street Journal touched on this issue on last week's Weekend Edition (July 12-13), when a vulgar Dutch cartoonist got jailed for posting unflattering cartoons related to Islam on his website. Sent at: 2008 12 02