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HA. THE JOKER THING IS STARTING TO SPREAD. EXCELLENT.

Of course, The WaPo has decided its racist too. See if you can figure out THIS twisted logic:

…the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the "urban" makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can't openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city…

The Joker's makeup in "Dark Knight" — the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world — emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence. Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks — the thinking goes — don't just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus.…

The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he's black.