First published in American Thinker

By Oleg Atbashian

According to Breitbart.com, dozens of posters of President Obama with a golf club and a caption "Sub Par" have been spotted outside the PGA's golf tournament near the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, as well as near Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica, California, all of them upscale and liberal enclaves.

A quick web search discovered a number of other locations in LA with "Sub Par" posters pasted over signal boxes, hanging from the wires and lampposts on busy intersections, glued to park benches, and even attached as small stickers to the walls of public bathrooms. This bears all the marks of an anonymous guerilla street art action by local artists.

Photos of these posters, hangers, and stickers are beginning to appear on several websites, but this one is by far the most complete collection we could find. There is also a short YouTube video of a street cop making a comment about one of the hanging posters.

No one is claiming responsibility for this gutsy guerilla art project, and with a very good reason: in the heart of a Democrat-run city financed by Hollywood studios, any artist engaging in such "counter-progressive" activities would do well to remain anonymous.
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In spite of the self-righteous promotion of tolerance and diversity by the "progressive" elites, they themselves tend to rule with a humorless iron fist of religious zealots, intolerant of any deviation from the dogma (unless the Party dogma transmogrifies; then you're expected to transmogrify with it). And there's hardly a deadlier sin in their bible than mocking a "progressive" deity, one of whom unquestionably is Barack Obama.

A Stalin-like intolerance of all dissent and religious worship of "progressive" icons is most rampant in such strongholds of progressivism as news media, academia, and especially the arts. An artist who refuses to conform and rebels against the "progressive" establishment gets immediately blacklisted, subjected to a witch hunt, shunned by his colleagues, and ultimately loses any chance of further employment in the industry.

Some of my artist friends among conservative bloggers are forced to withhold their real names so they can continue to feed their families. Losing anonymity for them would mean never to be able to find work in the arts again. The latest first-hand testimony of "progressive" Hollywood blacklisting can be found in a recent excellent essay by Andrew Klavan, a conservative filmmaker who urges conservatives to invest in alternative conservative arts because, as Breitbart liked to say, politics is downstream of culture.

While Klavan's emphasis is on the eternal nature of the art telling us the truth about our human nature, some utilitarian subsets of the arts, such as the political poster, are not to be dismissed either. The left has gained great mileage with visual agitation and propaganda, which communist countries like the USSR had developed into a standalone art genre.

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In the United States, political poster artists such as Shepherd Fairey, Robbie Conal, or Banksy absurdly made careers while promoting the leftist ideology through the arts -- absurdly because their allegedly "counter-culture" and "anti-establishment" message was cheered on and often sponsored by the cultural establishment itself, which today is almost entirely made of formerly rebellious "anti-establishment" leftists.

The palpable irony of today's historical moment is that the formerly cool, underground iconoclasts of the Left are now the oppressive, stodgy establishment. The tables have been turned by the invisible hand of historical necessity, but not in a revolution that Marxists had planned.

Today's truly rebellious, free-thinking, edgy and cool, counter-culture anti-establishment movement is entirely on the right of the political spectrum. The Left may try to obfuscate this reality, attempting to paint the Right as agents of the oppressive state, but in the end the truth always wins. It happened everywhere the Left held the power, and it will happen in America, too.

But the truth needs our help. We need to spread this notion, especially among the young people: Right is cool. Liberty is cool. Independence is cool. If your young heart desires idealism and adventure, sabotage the oppressive leftist establishment! If you want to hang out with free thinkers and non-conformists, join the Tea Party!

Contrary to the old man Marx, not everything happens by historical necessity; there's also the matter of free will. This is where the anti-Obama activist artists come in and seize the moment.

The prospect of the art world rebelling against the leftist establishment frightens the Left more than the Republican Party campaigning ever will.

A bunch of hip, younger artists amusing themselves by blasting leftist icons may start a trend that will turn out to be more consequential than all the costly election strategies devised by well-paid GOP consultants in Washington. Because, well, politics is downstream of culture.

If my instincts are correct, we will be seeing more provocative street art like this. Conservatives will do well to support it.


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Love the glorious red tie.

Someone just emailed me this photo.

I don't know what it means and how the Sub Par sticker got onto this car. The story may be way too complicated...

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A Google search shows that none of the leftist sites is covering this action, nor are the MSM (but I repeat myself). However, it's getting traction in the right hemisphere, and that's a good thing. As I was writing my report yesterday, it was on Drudge, with the picture.

Maria Conchita Alonso thought she could hide from the Left's Thought Police. But they got her - and her little dog too.

Not sure if this is real...

These are simply the Logical Precursors to "Big Brother is watching you" comrades. The Message that these posters send is not counterrevolutionary...rather, it correctly conveys the idea that our Beloved dear leader is AT ALL TIMES present.

[color=#C0392B]Captain Craptek[/color] was incredulous when he wrote:Not sure if this is real...

How about this...
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Comrades, a most excellent commentary on the current state of affairs:

Failing Liberals Turn To Oppression To Hold On To Power

If you're a conservative, you don't need to silence the opposition.

But liberals just can't have conservatives speaking. We'll tell the truth, and that's why liberals need to shut us up.

Their traditional intimidation tactics are wearing out. Calling someone a “racist” used to be a devastating moral indictment. Liberals' promiscuous employment of the word first turned it into a cliché and then into an ironic punchline.
I know, saying that out loud is racist. And sexist. And cisgender heteronormative, whatever the hell that means.

So now liberals have stepped up to formal governmental repression. Take the IRS scandal – or ex-scandal, in the eyes of the mainstream media. The Obama administration, at the urging of red state Democrat senators who are about to lose their seats because of their track records of failure, are doing everything they can to turn the taxman loose on the organizations that are pointing out their track records of failure.
Sure, the liberals come up with excuses, with justifications, with rationales for this prima facie oppression. But understand that the left was never against political repression. The left is only against being repressed itself.

The Federal Communications Commission just floated a trial balloon about going out to radio and television stations to evaluate reporters on how they cover the news. There was a time when journalists' response to a government inquiry into how they did their job would be "Go to hell, you goose-stepping bureaucratic flunky."

Not anymore. Now, their response is slavish submission to their progressive governmental dominatrix. When supposedly independent, iconoclastic liberal journalists let themselves to be dominated by the feds, their safeword is “Hillary.”

Liberalism has to muzzle the truth because it operates on lies. It is built on lies, fueled by lies, and creates an empire of lies.


https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtsch ... /page/full

Sub-par, but ain't he cute!

Red Square wrote:Someone just emailed me this photo.

I don't know what it means and how the Sub Par sticker got onto this car. The story may be way too complicated...

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A Google search shows that none of the leftist sites is covering this action, nor are the MSM (but I repeat myself). However, it's getting traction in the right hemisphere, and that's a good thing. As I was writing my report yesterday, it was on Drudge, with the picture.

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Thank Drudge for taking the lead on this tragedy. A friend in Kiev tells me the situation is worse than what we are seeing. Vitalik was not kidding about "the movie reference".

Apparently global warming and golf are more important to John Kerry and Dear Leader. However, I noticed Comrade Obama has done something, he's drawn another red line of confusion. Anyone think Putin is afraid?

Breitbart wrote another piece about the Sub Par poster, which in some way echoes my article:

'SUB PAR' OBAMA ARTIST SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER AT LONG LAST

As Comrade Margaret noted elsewhere:

Democratic party counters "Sub Par" Obama posters with new downloadable "Tea Bagger Racism" street art for grassroots anti-authoritarians of the Left

Indeed, all anti-authoritarians on the left should unite around the strong government power and use pre-printed state-authorized agitprop to defend non-conformism, like they always do.

politics is downstream of culture

This is some of the truest insight ever spoken. He who controls the cultural message will ultimately control the way people will vote in elections. It is my opinion that low information voters subconsciously think life mimics a video game, T.V, or movie plot with its simplistic good guys and bad guys and with the culture now being so successfully dominated by the left wing, conservatives are always cast as the evil villains in the plot line. This has to be overcome and satire like The People's Cube is on the front lines of doing just that.


Sub-Par is obviously a guerrilla campaign to get one of our submarines renamed Par to HONOR OBAMA not mock him!!!!!!!!

Baracky is so cool and layed back. Don't ya just love him?
This sort of stuff should not be allowed. I wouldn't watch this if I where you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXg5YlzayP0

Comrades,

Isn't sub par the aim of all good golfers?

Thank You, comrade,

I could not imagine the confusion.

Fhalkyn wrote:

General Confusion wrote:Comrades,

Isn't sub par the aim of all good golfers?

General, you are correkt! These posters actually praise our Dear Leader- as by being sub-par, he is actually the greatest president we had!

Korrect. Only Dear Leader is capable of achieving "sub-par" standing. The rest of us must be content with a ranking of "par", since to be "over-par" would be unjust. Equality, comrades! That's what it's all about. All hail The One,™ the only, Dear "sub-par" Leader!

Perhaps the posters are the work of Moochelle…

I understand she's a little upset with the way he's been schwinging his putter lately...

"Why ruin a country when I could golf?"

El Presidente,

Surely your poster is a misprint. Should it not read 'sublime'?

DEAR AND GRACIOUS RED SQUARE-

Would it be too much to ask you to make a three-layer street art stencil of this available for download with which we can graffiti our own posters and personal property, or would there be too much liability for you involved?