This was NOT photoshopped. National Review magazine cover.

[jillan]

[img][/img]

Did the people at National Review NOT see the similarities?

[SusanaMontana41]

38. Who the hell do those punks think they are? Rosie the Riveter? nt

[mike_c]

2. it's a common patriotic poster motif....

Personally, I much prefer the Soviet version.

[gollygee]

7. Yeah but imagine if Obama and Biden posed like that

Imagine the comparisons that would be made. Everywhere. Continually. We'd be seeing that 100 times every day until the election. Oh wait, it wouldn't even stop after the election.

[Confusious]

29. Don't your remember?

it's already happened.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/forward-for-communism-is-obamas-new-forward-slogan-really-a-coincidence/

Sorry about the places the links goes to, but it proves my case.

[chalky]

35. Oh, and don't forget that even his FONT is a commie plot.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/the-new-obama-typeface-revolution-gothic

[Blue_Tires]

62. also the columns on the stage of his election night...

[Vehl]

32. This!

And lets not forget the "Communist Tsar" comments.


(ironically communists and tzars were sworn enemies...but don't let facts get int he way of a good republican talking point)

[CTyankee]

18. IIRC, it is Soviet Constructivism, a well known school of art...

[malaise]

3. Except that they are fascists not communists

Interesting

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Remember the origin of Neo con ideology

They are not confused.

[freshwest]

48. +1,000. And the Koch family relations straight back to Stalin and Mussolini. Not a coincidence.

Esoteric wackjobs say such things are a warning that gives them permission. If no one objects because they don't understand, they say they won't accumulate any eternal consequences for crimes.


No shit.

[malaise]

50. LOL

[MNBrewer]

9. THe art at the time was remarkably similar, even here in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F%26M_Bank_3.jpg

For example.

[Cleita]

24. Two sides of the same coin when it comes

to Soviet style communism, or if you need one word, Totalitarianism.

[Xipe Totec]

36. Is Romney Il Douche of the Republican Party, then?

Apologies to Benito.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Il%20Douche

[rgbecker]

4. Pretty good cover...but everyone knows Romney doesn't actually have any plans.

My guess is that he's holding foot longs for Anne and the kids.

[randome]

8. MUCH more likely.

[formercia]

16. Nah,they're for Frick and Frack

[awoke_in_2003]

49. Don't forget Marcus...

[Confusious]

31. Bad Finger paintings,

big numbers and big words saying "2 + 2 = 3" and "freedum" on separate posters.

The most talent either of them has.

[Fla Dem]

68. Blue prints for the makeover of his $13 million house in Ca, ya know the one that's going to have a

car elevator.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Neocon central

NRO, Newsmax and a few others.

[HopeHoops]

10. It's similar, but the Russian text is just a basic description, not an endorsement or anything.

First line (CCCR spelled out)
Second and third lines basically say something along the lines of "Christians suck". It doesn't translate well into English, but that's what it means.

Still, the pictures are quite similar.

[Xipe Totec]

37. It says CCCP a socialist country for workers and christians.

[HopeHoops]

58. Well that makes more sense. My vocabulary is a little rusty. I can read it fine, just forget words.

[Xipe Totec]

61. The instrumental case for Russian nouns is tricky

Modifies the ending of the words to mean "made of"

So the literal translation is: a country made of workers and Christians, though we would not say it like that

[HopeHoops]

63. Well, to be fair, I only took two years of it and that was 25 years ago.

[idwiyo]

67. In this case it's "belongs to", not "made of" but you are close enough :)

[idwiyo]

65. Correction: workers and FARMERS

Рабочий - hired labourer (factory, etc)
Крестьянин - subsistence farmer

[Xipe Totec]

70. Thanks. I wonder if they are cognates nt

[idwiyo]

71. Yes, they most likely are but in modern Russian Christian is spelled differently

Христианин - from Greek ????????ό?

[Art_from_Ark]

69. Although CCCP in the Cyrillic alphabet

is actually SSSR in the Roman alphabet

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Looks like Mitt is about ready to unroll an architectural scroll

like Gary Cooper in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". Paul Ryan plays the Patricia Neal character who encourages him on.

[madrchsod]

42. first thing that came to my mind when i saw the picture

i just read about the making of movie...old annie was a big pain in the ass while making this movie.

[Tom Ripley]

56. She had flopped earlier as a silent movie screenwriter; just imagine how she fared in a talkie...

considering her "gift for dialogue" and all...

[Tom Ripley]

55. Yes indeed (n/t)

[formercia]

12. You can't make this shit up

[Tx4obama]

13. Kick! n/t

[Ezlivin]

14. The delivery of Pravda to their dachas has been slowed

by a strike of the proletariats.

[Navl]

15. Bad comparison

Romney is definitely not a communist. He is a capitalist through and through.

Fail

[YankeyMCC]

17. Is that supposed to be a bible in Ryan's hand?

Because I know it can't be detailed plans or something useful like that

[progressoid]

19. It's his highlighted version of Atlas Shrugged.

[Proles]

20. I thought he was holding Atlas Shrugged.

But I bet the artist of the cover is a liberal who wanted to interject a message showing just as how communism is very far left, and Romney and Ryan are way to the freakin' right.

[caveat_imperator]

26. It's not the Constitution, that's for sure.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Freepers and others call Romney a Communist because he is not far enough right for them.

[Cha]

22. It Looks Even More STUPID

after Romney's Shoot first Aim Later.

[liberal N proud]

23. What a coincidence!

Too bad I don't believe in coincidences.

[renie408]

25. Why does Mitt Romney look like Michael Palin? n/t

[pettypace]

27. better one

http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/2a/e5/american,conservative,fascist,giuliani,rudy-2ae5e38f896166f95b77767d5166c0ac_h.jpg

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. What's with the scrolls? Kitchen paper? Has Mitt been shopping again?

Maybe the kitchen paper is to soak up the mess.

[jtuck004]

33. Lists of people to fire and banks to hide money in. n/t

[Tom Ripley]

54. He's pretending that he is Howard Roark...and that's why Ryan is humping his ass

[DemKittyNC]

34. Wow,

It's the Ambiguously Gay Duo! ...From Saturday Night Live ...Right? Oh wait, these are real people?

[begin_within]

39. Plagiarism.

[jp11]

40. Mitt "I've got my secret plans to fix the government!" Ryan "And I've got my budget plan

with a copy of Atlas Shrugged hidden in a plain white cover!"

Mitt "That's all we'll need to fix this country for you and me!"

Ryan "Jiminy Jillikers!"

[Generic Brad]

41. R&R has no facial hair

So it's the same thing only different.

[MADem]

43. We do get a sense of "simplistic propaganda," don't we?

[mshasta]

44. hahah

ryan is pocking romey really good....sick

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

45. They do have Ryan standing unusually close behnd Mitt

and Mitt has a strange look of far-off ecstasy on his face. I'd wonder if it's a subtle goof on Romney being played by an artist in the LGBT community. You never know.

[Terra Alta]

46. Is that Mitt's tax returns he's holding? nt

[baldguy]

47. More proof the conservatives simply don't understand irony.

It's not that they're stupid - they just lack one of the genes that make the rest of us human.

[treestar]

51. Terrible drawing of Mittens

That isn't him.

[Tom Ripley]

52. (With apologies to David Letterman) Now they like a father-son architecture firm

[Kurovski]

53. Here's a poster for the National Review to modify for the next issue...

Title it "Show's Over, Folks!"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

57. Good one

or this one:

[CrispyQ]

59. Is that a Bible in Ryan's hand, or a corporate binder on how to destroy America? -nt

[Raster]

60. No, it's his under-the-bed Ayn Rand paper porn.

You know, for those "special times."

[CrispyQ]

72. ~lol.

Probably that!

[stuntcat]

66. he's got a Bible!

This was my thought about the picture!!

I'm sure they're just looking studious or whatever but it should be seen as a Bible!

[porphyrian]

64. Methinks the artist may be a subversive...

...in a good way.

[redqueen]

73. Kick.

[Javaman]

74. What's Leslie Nielsen doing on the cover? nt