The real meaning of the Obama-mocking display at the US Embassy in Moscow.


By Oleg Atbashian | First published in PJ Media

Both the Washington Post and Huffington Post have recently condemned the anti-Obama street art display near the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which taunted Barack Obama on his birthday with racist references.

Interestingly enough, the same media organs, notorious for their unwavering support of this president, had neglected to cover a series of recent better-executed and more tasteful anti-Obama displays by American street artists in Augusta, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley.

Granted, the American anti-Obama artists didn't give the media an opportunity to cry "racism." Is that why the U.S.-based artists weren't deemed worthy of a story? In defense of the pro-Obama journalists, it's a lot harder to defend their protégé when the charges are not race-related.

The prank in Moscow, however, was a smorgasbord of monkeys, bananas, and dog whistles — everything the left-wing media requires to reinforce its own narrative: all criticism of Obama is based in racism. "They just hate him because he's black."

As usual, their anti-racist sanctimony has once again blinded the media to the real story.

To describe the Moscow display as merely "racist" would be just as parochial and myopic as to describe the Islamic Caliphate in Iraq as a threat to gender equality in the workplace. Both statements would be somewhat true, but they would also reveal the superficiality of an obsessive-compulsive mind focused exclusively on pet-peeve issues. They might have just as effectively scorned the unhip cut of the Nazi uniforms as the Germans advanced across Europe.

Of all the problems with the Obama-mocking display, racism is probably the least disturbing. Trust me as someone who comes from the former USSR: those "patriots" don't hate Obama "just because he's black." They hate him because in their minds he represents the "vile" America — including its "stupid" people, its "horrible" history, its "materialistic" values, and its "unfair" economy.

Make no mistake, the insult was directed at the United States — a country they love to hate for a whole lot of reasons — outlandish reasons without a doubt, but among which racism won't even make to the top hundred. More precisely, the actual object of their hatred is not as much the America we know, but an ugly, far-fetched and perverted depiction of it — something that Putin's jingoistic propaganda has been creating and planting in people's heads for quite some time. If this attack on Obama was indeed an act of citizen activism, that would be the best evidence of how successful Russia's state-run media machine has been.

The amount of militant nationalism and xenophobia Putin has been able to whip up inside Russia would have made Hitler look like an amateur. While no true patriot would support a regime that is destroying his country like cancer, in new Orwellian Russia the "patriots" are the ones running the country into the ground.

As they hysterically pledge to fight "fascism" everywhere, they support everything that fascism stands for. Even their enormous pride over Russia's victory over the Nazi Germany in WWII has become indistinguishable from the pride of a gang of soccer hooligans who beat up an opposing gang that dared root for the other team.

The Putin media's calculated national-chauvinist propaganda is causing many a Russian to simmer with righteous anger over America's "imperialist" policies, as every latest "news report" sets off a tsunami of neurotic online comments and, perhaps, as many stomach ulcers.

On a better day we might pity these people as victims of media brainwashing, but their passion and their massive support of their president's foreign policies make them a force to be reckoned with.

Today's average media consumer in Russia believes that the recent Ukrainian revolution (and all other "color" revolutions around their borders) was engineered and paid for by America with the sole purpose of hurting Russia, destroying its spirit, conquering its land, and taking over its natural resources.

The majority of Russians now believe that the CIA and the State Department had planted their agents in Ukraine in order to spread Russophobia and stage a bloody "fascist" coup. They believe that the Pentagon is now arming and training Ukrainians to kill ethnic Russians, having effectively split the brotherly Slavic nations and turned them on one another. Why? "They just hate us because we're Russians." Sound familiar?

These quixotic delusions motivate Russian "patriots" to sneak into eastern Ukraine and shoot at ordinary Ukrainians while imagining they're fighting "fascists." The worst Don Quixote could do with his spear was damage a windmill thinking it was an evil giant. Armed with anti-aircraft missiles, his paranoid Russian counterparts have shot down a Malaysian airliner.

It doesn't even occur to the brainwashed Russian supremacists that all the crimes that the Kremlin's propaganda is falsely attributing to America, Russia is doing in real life, point by point. It is actually Russia that sends agents to a sovereign county, arms violent thugs, spreads ethnic hatred, creates the appearance of a popular uprising that is really controlled by military intelligence, and orchestrates bloodshed in order to achieve its imperialist geopolitical goals.

One can learn a lot about actions and intentions of a paranoid autocratic regime by examining what it is accusing its "enemies" of doing, be they real or imaginary. The Russian state-run media is painting a picture of a U.S.-dominated world as a violent, dark, cynical, and corrupt dystopia. If we understand that the latest anti-American propaganda campaign is actually a projection of Russia's own impulses, it isn't difficult to imagine that the above dystopia is exactly what the world would have looked like if the roles were reversed and humankind were dominated by the Kremlin.


Granted, Russian citizens aren't the only target of the Kremlin's lies and distortions; stories of a similar nature are also being written in foreign languages and planted in the Western media, including the United States. This is hardly new, as the KGB/FSB masters of disinformation have always used their client network of left-wing media operatives in the past. What's new is that they have also begun to engage right-wing blogs and online media. In part, such a development can be explained by the right's animosity towards Obama and the willingness of some bloggers to swallow everything that undermines this administration's policies and to gloat at Obama's misfortunes.

As an Obama critic from even before the election, I'm glad that for once he is taking the right side in this conflict, although he could surely do a lot more. One of the things he absolutely should have done is to direct his administration to counter the harmful anti-American propaganda emanating from the Kremlin. Once the dirt sets, it is always harder to clean up. It would probably cause him a severe case of cognitive dissonance to do so, as he obviously grew up believing in Moscow's own cold-war clichés that all the world's problems are America's fault. His belief that the world would be a better place if only the U.S. played nice earned him an advance Nobel Peace Prize, which obviously made defending America in the eyes of the world even more difficult for Obama.

Whatever the case, Obama failed to nip Putin's aggressive ambitions in the bud when he still had time to do so. Instead of using available resources to counter Moscow's world-wide subversion efforts, he and Hillary Clinton engaged in amateurish theatrics with the misspelled "reset button." Indeed, he may have brought this "Moscow cheer" on himself, but one thing is certain: racist references made by the worked-up Russian nationalists are among the least of his problems.

Let's make this very Simple.

Thank you Comrade Red Square for alerting us to the health and continued effectiveness of propaganda in the Motherland and throughout the world. It would be sad to think our cherished devices were no longer useful in directing and shaping the proletariat.

I forgot to include into this article this relevant Soviet joke:

An American and a Soviet man talking:

AMERICAN MAN: In America, anyone can openly criticize our President.
SOVIET MAN: Big deal. In the USSR too, anyone can openly criticize your American President.

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Another thing I should have included is the rabid hatred of homosexuality among the Russian "patriots," which is fully supported and exploited by Putin. They like to scare Russians that any steps towards a Western-style democracy in that country will result in Russia being anally raped by foreign and domestic gays.

That, along with their uncompromising stand on terrorism and global government, promotion of the family, church, and other social-conservative issues, may explain why Russia's state propaganda has the ear of some single-minded American conservatives. However, that can be very misleading.Thus, Russian "patriots" usually foam at the mouth at everything "liberal" (they even made up the word "liberast," conflating liberals with pederasts). What gets lost in translation is that it also comes with the hatred of "classical liberalism" and its values, which most American conservatives hold as their own. E.g., individualism to them is a vice, while collectivism is the highest virtue. They're now using a fancy-sounding word for collectivism - soBORnost'.

"Global Government" here is merely a code word for "international Jewish conspiracy," which endears them to the local anti-Semites and believers in outlandish conspiracies. That includes many Ron Paul supporters who must feel quite at home while watching RT. Make no mistake, Russian nationalists only hate Global Government in its Western version, but would love to have it if they were the ones running it - that was the idea behind the Soviet expansionism, which they miss and are now trying to recreate.

While Russian nationalists declare their allegiance to the Orthodox Church, their concept of Christianity as a state religion would bewilder and repulse many Christians here in America. Jesus is probably the least likely role model in their faith, but they do believe in a weird concoction of the Occult, mysticism, numerology, ESP, and plain old superstitions.

Those unaware of such nuances can easily be misled.

I am not being sure if that is banana going in and out of Glorious Socialist Amerikan Dicktator's mouth. Perhaps Russian artists should be asking of Obama's closest, very closest, in-deep closest, having Obama's glorious posterior covered closest, czar, the czar of Obama's body, Reggie Love, for most excellent Kapitalist advice in this matter.

Red Square wrote:Those unaware of such nuances can easily be misled.

And thusly we Triumph!

Red Square wrote:... all criticism of Obama is based in racism. "They just hate him because he's black."

This is emphatically not true! They hate him for many other reasons!

Red Square wrote:I forgot to include into this article this relevant Soviet joke:

An American and a Soviet man talking:

AMERICAN MAN: In America, anyone can openly criticize our President.
SOVIET MAN: Big deal. In the USSR too, anyone can openly criticize your American President.
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Communists and Capitalists are more alike than they would like to admit. A capitalist Believes that he Is entitled to what he has earned. A communist also Believes that he Is entitled to what the capitalist has earned.

As Comrade Yoda is wont to say,

A thousand words worth a picture is:


--KOOK

Thought Sheriff wrote:

Red Square wrote:I forgot to include into this article this relevant Soviet joke:

An American and a Soviet man talking:

AMERICAN MAN: In America, anyone can openly criticize our President.
SOVIET MAN: Big deal. In the USSR too, anyone can openly criticize your American President.
.

Communists and Capitalists are more alike than they would like to admit. A capitalist Believes that he Is entitled to what he has earned. A communist also Believes that he Is entitled to what the capitalist has earned.

Here at The People's Cube we share and distribute all things. when we're finished with them.

Comrade Red Square,

You, once again, Naaaaaiiiiiiiild it!

Thank you!

--KOOK

Red Square wrote:Another thing I should have included is the rabid hatred of homosexuality among the Russian "patriots," which is fully supported and exploited by Putin. They like to scare Russians that any steps towards a Western-style democracy in that country will result in Russia being anally raped by foreign and domestic gays.

Attempts to use the above scare on Ukrainians themselves -- to make them wary of integration with European Union -- however, backfired, when a Ukrainian famously countered: "Better gays from Brussels, than faggots from Kremlin!"

Shouldn't the title of that video have the quotes around "Banana" instead of "Swallows"?

White House in the Dark without captions, artwork, etc.:




--KOOK

As a thought criminal, this gives me much to think about. Let me see if I have this korrect; the propaganda from the Kremlin only serves to deepen the divide between already deeply divided Americans. And our own administration is playing certain cards to achieve the same ends. Since the historic election of dear leader, I have come to believe that the government is using public relations techniques to mold the emotions of the electorate proles. When I look closely at the language used in news reports, it is often incendiary and emotionally charged. Not a very neutral position. Dear Leader uses such language himself. I can understand why an enemy competitor of the United States would want to cause such deep divisions, but I can not understand what our own government gains by doing nearly the same thing as the Kremlin is doing? Is power that important to the ruling class that they would destroy the country they rule to keep it? (Redundant question?)

T.C. #7980907 wrote:As a thought criminal, this gives me much to think about. Let me see if I have this korrect; the propaganda from the Kremlin only serves to deepen the divide between already deeply divided Americans. And our own administration is playing certain cards to achieve the same ends. Since the historic election of dear leader, I have come to believe that the government is using public relations techniques to mold the emotions of the electorate proles. When I look closely at the language used in news reports, it is often incendiary and emotionally charged. Not a very neutral position. Dear Leader uses such language himself. I can understand why an enemy competitor of the United States would want to cause such deep divisions, but I can not understand what our own government gains by doing nearly the same thing as the Kremlin is doing? Is power that important to the ruling class that they would destroy the country they rule to keep it? (Redundant question?)

The house of The USSA was mistakenly constructed on the wrong foundation. The house must be torn down, a new progressive foundation poured, and a new, equal, inclusive house constructed. We've scheduled a gala "Open House" party for Next Tuesday.™ Then all the People will cheer and sing out in unison, "This is The House That Marx Built" - and we will all live happily ever after. Amen.

You are right, comrades, I must obey the party. I'm having so much trouble getting in touch with my inner comrade. Should I denounce myself now for thinking such un-progressive thoughts?

Thoughcriminal, you can do that, or trot on down to your nearest Jiffy-Lobo!
(Double punches on your frequent customer card on Wednesdays before noon!)

Tell them you want the Kristallnacht purge special, you'll feel better right away.

Excellent Advice, Tovi,

August, 16, 2013 marks the demise of the brilliant inventor of the most equal process of JifiLobo™, Father Prog Theocritus. We are indebted to him for his most equal efforts in transforming the unwashed masses. It's the one thing we did that actually worked!

Long live Father Prog Theocritus!

Speaking of comparing presidents to monkeys:

Russian zoo names baby monkey after President Putin

MOSCOW - A peculiar bald monkey, born at the Moscow Zoo during the successful annexation of Crimea and invasion into Ukraine, has been named after Russia's enormously popular president, Vladimir Putin.The baby baboon that some believe brought luck to the Kremlin, will now be known simply as "Pootie-Poo."

Since the monkey was born, Putin's approval rating has remained at 86% without any signs of decline, according to zoo officials.

"There's not a politician on earth who can maintain 86% support indefinitely - except our Russian president," says Zoo spokeswoman, Luyda Yedova.

Yedova believes it is due to the luck brought by the bald monkey that the Russian consumers still aren't holding Putin responsible for any of the negative consequences of his Ukraine policy. On the contrary - in spite of the falling ruble and the catastrophic depletion of the country's budget, Putin has become even more politically powerful now than at any other time in the past decade and a half.

Zoo officials say naming the monkey after Putin was "an overwhelming favorite" among many zoo patrons who were sending in name suggestions through the zoo's Facebook and Twitter pages.

The Pootie-Poo exhibit grew popular in the weeks leading up to the West-imposed sanctions, after the zoo installed the Russian Federation's official emblem over the monkey cage.

A zoo visitor we spoke to said he found the name very appropriate.

"Putin accuses the U.S. State Department of setting up a puppet regime in Ukraine, and then he turns around and sets up several puppet regimes inside Ukrainian territory. Monkey see, monkey do," he added with what sounded like Ukrainian accent.

The zoo is now hoping the real president Putin will visit the zoo for a naming ceremony for the little monkey in the coming weeks.

That baboon bears a striking family resemblance

Kapitan Kangaroo Kourt wrote:That baboon bears a striking family resemblance

I would wish to see a picture of Pootie-Poo astride a horse, or in a boonie hat shouldering a weapon, before I make such a judgment. Ringers and identity thieves are everywhere.

RedDiaperette wrote:

Kapitan Kangaroo Kourt wrote:That baboon bears a striking family resemblance

I would wish to see a picture of Pootie-Poo astride a horse, or in a boonie hat shouldering a weapon, before I make such a judgment. Ringers and identity thieves are everywhere.

Can there be any doubt, now, Comrade RedD?


As you are well aware, we here at The People's Cube™ strive to provide irrefutable evidence of any and all claims, suggestions and assertions put forward for public perusal and consumption.

One can clearly see that Pootie-poo not only bears a striking resemblance to his (alleged) father but also shares many similar mannerisms.