Lions and Tigers and Fonts, Oh My! Proving the President is a Commie
In the smoke-and-mirrors world of the deranged political right, there are plenty of reasons to conclude that President Obama is a 鈥渃ommunist.鈥� His father wrote about socialism. His mother was white and only Marxists slept with black men in her era 鈥� plus, she met Obama鈥檚 father in a Russian language class! The future president鈥檚 teenage mentor may have been a communist. Former members of the extreme-left Weather Underground held a fundraiser for his Illinois State Senate run.
And then, just revealed to the ignorant masses by the geniuses who run the BuzzFeed website, there is Obama鈥檚 new typeface: 鈥淩evolution Gothic.鈥�
Yes, courtesy of Zeke Miller, identified as a staffer of BuzzFeed, we now know that the font adopted by the Obama campaign a few weeks ago is 鈥渁 style inspired by retro Cuban propaganda posters.鈥� Zeke did us the favor of posting a recent picture of the president with the socialist typeface, followed by a collection of images of some of the typeface鈥檚 other uses (鈥淰iva la Revolucion,鈥� slogans from Lenin, etc.).
From there, it went viral. The Blaze, the 鈥渘ews鈥� site run by former Fox conspiracy-monger-in-chief Glenn Beck, adopted and expanded the scoop first brought to us by the enterprising Zeke Miller. This time, The Blaze鈥檚 Benny Johnson added in some really cool new information, such as the idea that 鈥渢he typeface origin is seeded in Cuban Communist propaganda.鈥� Benny continued: 鈥淗ere is a collection of early Commie propaganda from Cuba and later pop-art, can you see the similarity?鈥� Then comes a slew of images of Fidel Castro, Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev, propaganda posters and, for good measure, the cover of The Communist Manifesto.
And from there it went to another Obama-bashing website, American Conservative 2 Conservative, where it was posted by 鈥渘ational director鈥� Laura J. Alcorn under the same scary headline used by The Blaze: 鈥溾�橵iva la Revolucion!鈥� Obama Campaign Rolls Out New Typeface Inspired By鈥︹�� And once again, the pictures of Fidel and his collectivist typeface.
Is the Obama campaign鈥檚 new font proof of the president鈥檚 determination to help the workers of the world cast off their chains? Well, even many of Buzzfeed鈥檚 readers didn鈥檛 seem to think so. 鈥淗ow bored, obsessed, or gullible are you that you report this?鈥� one asked. 鈥淣o confirmation, just a similar typeface as a cheap way to somehow tie Obama to communism.鈥� Several others pointed out that the type used by the campaign actually is different than that preferred by Red Typesetters.
But the sharpest reply may have come after Miller E-mailed the Obama campaign for comment on the tip he鈥檇 received from a reader. 鈥淵our GOP operative should have had the courtesy to stay sober until noon,鈥� Miller says Obama press secretary Ben LaBolt replied, 鈥渁nd BuzzFeed should go back to labeling cat slideshows.鈥�
Hatewatch isn鈥檛 so easily fooled, however. It鈥檚 perfectly obvious that the typeface used by the Obama campaign proves the president is a Marxist bent on destroying Western civilization and the white man to boot. Just like Zeke Miller, Glenn Beck, Benny Johnson and Laura J. Alcorn are brilliant investigative reporters.
