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Jello Biafra and Shepard Fairey Spoof Obama 'Hope' Image

  • Posted on Nov 20th 2009 4:00PM by Dan Reilly
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Jello BiafraAny album with a title that openly mocks President Obama needs a cover that's equally subversive, and Jello Biafra's artwork for 'The Audacity of Hype' certainly delivers. The former Dead Kennedys frontman opted for a version of Shepard Fairey's famous "HOPE" picture and replace Obama's image with a demonic version of himself, fangs and horns included.

Rather than just get an artist to spoof the picture like so many others have done, Biafra went to Fairey himself. "We've known each other for years, at least by phone and being fans of each other's work. He'd done another album cover for me after the Seattle protests," Biafra tells Spinner, referring to a show he did with the No WTO Combo with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and Soundgarden's Kim Thayil. "I'd seen a variation of Shepard's hand about to strangle the Earth on the cover of one of Seattle's weekly magazines and thought 'This is perfect.' The in-house Art Director of [Biafra's record label] Alternative Tentacles put me in touch with Shepard, so we tweaked the picture to get it ready for the album cover and we went on from there."

When it came time for the 'Audacity of Hype' cover, Biafra wasn't sure whether his vision would work. "I didn't know whether he would dig making fun of his iconic work or not, so I called him first to see how he felt about it," he says. "Much to my pleasant surprise, he said 'Yeah, I want to do the picture.' I thought 'Great, this couldn't have worked out better.'"

'The Audacity of Hype' is out now.
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The following was taken from the Stratfor Intelligence Briefing newsletter:

August 25, 2009 As August draws to a close, so does the first phase of the Obama presidency. The first months of any U.S. presidency are spent filling key positions and learning the levers of foreign and national security policy.

There are also the first rounds of visits with foreign leaders and the first tentative forays into foreign policy. The first summer sees the leaders of the Northern Hemisphere take their annual vacations, and barring a crisis or war, little happens in the foreign policy arena.

Then September comes and the world gets back in motion, and the first phase of the president's foreign policy ends. The president is no longer thinking about what sort of foreign policy he will have; he now has a foreign policy that he is carrying out.

Presidents—all presidents—run on a platform that will win. If they are good presidents, they will leave behind these promises to govern as they must. This is what Obama has done.

He ran for president as the antithesis of Bush. He has conducted his foreign policy as if he were Bush.

This is because Bush's foreign policy was shaped by necessity, and Obama's foreign policy is shaped by the same necessity. Presidents who believe they can govern independent of reality are failures. Obama doesn't intend to fail.


OBAMA has conducted his foreign policy as if he were Bush.

I guess, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

November 29 2009 at 10:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
bettykeen

You are sick. You are one heartless, cruel piece of work. By the way, Professor, neither Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nor Lee Harvey Oswald was an elected offical, you boob. Oh, and get spellcheck, Einstein.

November 29 2009 at 1:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
bettykeen

Wow. Every now and again I read a story on here and glance at a few of the comments. If one were to ask "are people basically good or bad" then read this...I shudder to think at what one would conclude after reading these nasty, mean-spirited, racist, bigoted words. Oy. And the cherry on the sundae is the most hate laden postings usually mention God. Oh irony.

November 29 2009 at 1:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Ort

Oh yes, I forgot Lee Strobel's "The case for Christ". He is a lawyer and was an atheist who spent 6 months trying to disprove who Christ was using modern courtroom methods of proof. He couldn't. He is now a saved believer.

November 29 2009 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Ort

momo: Jesus wasn't fathered by a roman soldier. He is God made flesh, fully God and fully man. If He isn't, nobody has any business paying attention to anything He said. He said He was God.."If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." And, "Before Abraham was, I AM" (YHVH). He is either a lunatic, a liar, or He is the Lord. There are no other choices. Please read "More than a carpenter" by Josh McDowell.

November 29 2009 at 12:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
kim

I never said I was or was'nt for obama. But I agree I havent seen any changes yet either. And don't think there are going to be any good changes at all. It was a mistake to me that he is in office. I can't understand how he did get in. Not a racist, not an obama fan, just scared.

November 28 2009 at 10:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
kim

Wow! And there we wonder why there is so much racism. people that have one track minds, and stupid comments that keep it going. Aren't we supposed to work together? This is not the time to worry about black or white it is what is being done or not. And looks to me more not.

November 28 2009 at 10:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jonathan

So, I'm a "right wingnut" as they say, and I can't fathom how anyone could regard the "OBAMA 666/SENISTER" comment as legitimate. Either the post is coming from a nine year old dropout writing on behalf of his father (who cannot write), or (more likely) it is a liberal, posing as a moron to perpetuate the notion that every conservative is a plaid-wearing farmhand without dental hygiene. (Consider the fact that spellcheck in these forums is automatic. It's even telling me now that I misspelled spellcheck.)

November 28 2009 at 7:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Susan

Jesus of Nazareth was possibly fathered by a Roman soldier who may have been lighter skinned than the family he was raised in. No one really knows what he looked like. He was one of many evangelistic preachers in his day. He was a practicing Jew and supported all of the Jewish law. When asked what is the greatest commandment, he answered "Love God with all your body, soul, and mind." And the second, "like unto it" was "Love thy neighbor as thyself." These commandments are patently impossible to obey but are something to strive for. Most professing Christians do not even attempt to understand or obey them.

November 28 2009 at 9:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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nanH

momo: you are so wrong. If you knew anything about the Truth, you would be running the race to find it. you have no clue, about the imense Love presence of our creator. Without His blessings everything would crumble. Remember this; He blesses only the Truth. Everything else, weather it is ignorence, mythology, hyprocracy, or whatever, it is void of Truth, and will be part of the eternal darkness, as there is no eternal death. He will give you every oppertunity to find the light before it is too late. Time is running out, for the earth groans from the weight of evil, and evil is the worlds darkness, (spiritual ignorence) and has nothing to sustain its existence. God is not in our darkness. He is the only source of LOVE, and He does not want to lose any of His children to evils eternal darkness. Each of us has to search for the Truth, and what you said is heresay and uterrly blasmy. pray to jesus and he will give you answers, and peace. There are hundreds of testimonies of ND experiences where they talked with jesus, on God's throne, and he sent them back to warn us the time is short. Gos created by speaking His word. Do you not think he can send His son to save us from our ignorence,our darkness. He plants the seeds in all things, and he sends the babies to the mothers womb. he is an awsome God, and jesus serves Him only, no satin, the destroyer.

November 28 2009 at 11:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Ort

Jay: Being given "freebies" is nothing if the brain behind the body getting the freebies is not willing to be educated or to work for the rewards. Blacks and hispanics get all kinds of "freebies", and the problems I listed in my first e-mail to you are still very much a reality.
As for society pressuring kids to have it now, worry about it later, that's the parents fault. Problem is, there is a 70% illegitimacy rate among blacks. How can a child learn and grow up properly when babies are having babies? I know a lot of teachers, and I've heard horror stories. 7 year olds mouthing off to the teacher saying "F you, you ain't my mama!" when guidance is trying to be administered. Where do they learn that? "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."

God ordained marriage between one man and one woman and children are a part of marriage, NOT one night stands. They are parents...NOT a "baby mama" or a "baby daddy".

A child needs a father for part of their guiance and a mother. The two balance each other out. When 12 year olds are cranking out babies and getting government assistance, or high schoolers are doing the same and there are schools where you bring your baby so at least you can graduate...............Lord in heaven, help this backward nation.

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