What Is Earl Ofari Hutchinson Afraid Of?

Posted by: Tristan

It didn’t take long for a backlash to arise.  Not long after Drudge Report linked to a NewsBusters story about street posters in LA depicting Obama as The Joker in a story just posted by the Douchebag Report, the liberals leapt onto the offensive. Apparently Huffington Post writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson is no fan of free speech.

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous.
Hutchinson is challenging the group or individual that put up the poster to have the courage and decency to publicly identify themselves.
“Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery,” says Hutchinson, “it is mean-spirited and dangerous.”

So portraying the President as demonic is mean-spirited and dangerous?  Where was Hutchinson when we kept seeing this?

One might think that the folks whose parties control the White House and both Houses of Congress might have thicker skins.  Where’s the danger in taking President Obama down a few notches?  If anything, the country would be better off if everyone took him a little less seriously.

At least when the Left was afraid to criticize President Bush, he was enacting the policy which has protected the United States from further terrorist attacks since of 9/11.

Obama, on the other hand, has seized a period of national bankruptcy to go on a government spending binge which has done little, if anything, to attend to the economic issues we face.  That a political price for this failure has to be paid is not “mean-spirited and dangerous”, it is DEMOCRACY.

Douchebag Report has found one last irony in the situation. Hutchinson had this final challenge:

“We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.”

In The Dark Night, it’s The Joker who chases after Batman’s identity.