Missile agency’s ‘crescent moon’ logo scares right-wingers

[RamboLiberal]

The conservative blogosphere is abuzz about the new logo of the US Missile Defense Agency, which they say looks suspiciously similar to both the Obama campaign logo and the crescent moon typically seen on Islamic flags.

On Wednesday, the Drudge Report posted a picture of the agency's new logo -- a blue crescent with a wave of red stripes emerging from it -- above pictures of the Obama campaign logo and a crescent moon and star, a typical theme on flags of Islamic nations.

But the particular crescent moon chosen by Drudge appears not to be part of any flag, but rather the symbol of the Nation of Islam.

"New Missile Defense Agency Logo Causes Online Commotion," reads the Drudge headline, though it links only to the home page of the Missile Defense Agency. Another headline below links to the Wikipedia page on Islamic flags, which does not feature the crescent "flag" Drudge used.

Blogger Frank Gaffney, writing at BigGovernment.com, a Web site run by Drudge ally Andrew Breitbart, says the new logo may be a sign that the Obama administration has "nefarious" plans for US defense.

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/missile-agency-logo-scares-rightwingers/

[gratuitous]

1. One of Drudge's friends wets his pants

And that translates into a "commotion." Ignore the children, let the grown-ups conduct the affairs of the nation.

[notadmblnd]

2. I see marketing companies are still using logos/symbols

to make emblems look like they're moving forward. I would have thought that that particular marketing gimmick would be passe by now:shrug:

[MUAD_DIB]

10. It's not a gimmick. It's a solution.

The application may appear to be a little dated (i.e internet 90s), but the underlying approach has been around for a while now.

[notadmblnd]

20. better?

I would have thought that that particular marketing solution would be passe by now :shrug:

[MUAD_DIB]

21. Everything is cyclical. For example, I lived through the 80's only to see its

design style come back to haunt us twice now.

If somebody can squeeze a few extra drops out of an idea then they'll do it; especially if they don't have to come up with something original.

Passe is easy. Good work is harder. There is a world of passe being spawned as I write this.


That being said, the aesthetic of the circle with an orbiting "swoosh" has been around so long, probably back into the 1930s and before, that it is part of the lexicon of design approaches.

You could have a really good logo, worked on for a few hundred hours, that uses that aesthetic and plenty of really crappy ones done on the fly in an evening.


My own professional opinion is that the logo has its problems and does appear to have been done some time ago.

Perhaps a designer pulled that particular design out of his filing cabinet from years past, dusted it off and sold it as new.


I always wanted to do that... :)

[tanyev]

3. Oh noes! I'm surprised any of them even use the letter O anymore.

[Newsjock]

4. Looks like something from Starfleet Academy

... not Your Black Muslim Bakery.

[renegade000]

6. the vulcan IDIC

yeah... i'm a nerd. :-)

[Edweird]

5. Heh. Prolly want to ix-nay hammers and sickles as well... just sayin'

[jody]

7. I assume the concern is not unlike that over Admiral Poindexter's Information Awareness Office.

Of course others will have their own opinions.

[MUAD_DIB]

8. There's proof that Obama is a redcommiemuslimforner!

[Canuckistanian]

9. Right wingers are easily frightened

It's a conditioned response to anything they don't understand.

[Robb]

11. They'll be hidin' bible verses next.

:eyes:

[annabanana]

12. They are the biggest scaredy cats in the world....n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

13. I agree. No more red white and blue logos for anything.

Who wants to take bets that there will be a redesign?

[kenny blankenship]

14. Well then this one should make them crap their pants

They've landed on our soil! They're here already!

[customerserviceguy]

16. Ha! Good point!

Frankly, it looks like the red and white stripes are attacking a part of the blue crescent. That should have calmed the reich wingers.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Speaking of crap

[GoCubsGo]

19. Everything makes them crap in their pants

That is their whole problem.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Where Gaffney leads, stupid is sure to follow.

Krissakes Frank, you're a funnel for foolishness. *swat* Shush.

[TheBigotBasher]

17. I was reading one of the right wing loony sites earlier.

One dirty bigot got itself confused and thought that the old logo was the new one so it wrote

rol Says:

February 24, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Oh, also, the new logo has a highly abstracted suggestion of the United States (green) and the Atlantic Ocean (blue). I think the formless blog that represents our nation is actually representative of Obama’s vision for our country. He wants to take it down, make us less great, “level the playing field,” and so forth.

or

It could be taken to mean that it’s not even clear which nation he’s defending, the form is so meaningless.

Then it developed a brain cell

Carol Says:

February 24, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Ignore my comment #17. I flipped which logo was new and which was the original one. OK. Super creepy. (As for my #17 comments, just shows to go you how much one can interpret and read into things!) I hang my head in shame. BUT, comment #16 still applies, irrespective of logo or no logo issue.

If ignorance is bliss, then the life of the typical tea-bagging Rethug must be heavenly.

[lonestarnot]

22. Just what aren't those coward fucks afraid of on the planet here?