ObamaJoker Artist Unmasked

Remember that horrible, tasteless, racist, eeeeevil poster of Obama-as-Joker that caused such a stir not too long ago?  Rather than bother with the tedium of an actual investigation, the media simply leaped to the conclusion that must have been done by a conservative (probably Karl Rove, and funded by insurance companies), and the case was closed after some vicious smearing of all conservatives who have ever walked the face of the planet.

As is so common with liberal attacks, the reality is something altogether different:

When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?

Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?

Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.

Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.

Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.

Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.

And the liberal media had yet another arrow in their quiver of baseless accusations against conservative un-American Nazi mobsters.  Wanna know the best part?  Alkhateeb is a Palestinian who aligns with Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East, and a Dennis Kucinich supporter.

Not exactly a conservative stalwart, now, is he?

There's my two cents.