Obama HOPE Artist Beaten Bloody in Copenhagen by Left-wing Radicals

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Obama HOPE artist Shepard Fairey was beaten bloody in Copenhagen by anarchists who told him to, “Go back to America.”
The Guardian reported:

When graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim and a letter of thanks from Barack Obama. When he employed a similar tactic in Denmark, however, the response proved altogether less edifying.

Last weekend, Fairey – creator of the famous “Hope” poster that came to encapsulate Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign – was beaten up after the opening of his exhibition at a Copenhagen gallery.

Earlier this month he was involved with a controversial mural that has enraged leftwing anarchists throughout the city.

“I have a black eye and a bruised rib,” Fairey told the Guardian.

According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside the Kodboderne 18 nightclub in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Fairey claims the men called him “Obama illuminati” and ordered him to “go back to America”.

#1 August 16, 2011 at 10:52 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

but i thought all that apologizing and bowing to people was supposed to get people to like odumbass and the USA…what a dumb POS….hopey changey
#2 August 16, 2011 at 10:53 am
Rachelle commented:

Now this unicorn riding moron knows what the Left is really like.
#3 August 16, 2011 at 10:59 am
daryl commented:

So the Danes gave him what he had coming from here. Can’t say I’m sorry to hear it.
#4 August 16, 2011 at 11:00 am
big L commented:

Huh!
#5 August 16, 2011 at 11:01 am
forest commented:

Obama pals around with some sketchy people.
#6 August 16, 2011 at 11:01 am
dunce commented:

Fairey?colleague? Keep them for your rough trade.
#7 August 16, 2011 at 11:04 am
Andreas K. commented:

These guys aren’t anarchists. They are left wing stormtroopers and their masters are unhappy with Obama since, even two years in, the “great satan” US of A is still around. And so the masters ordered those troopers to take care of a symbol of Obama.

Shepard Fairey, welcome to the true left wing spirit. Hope you enjoy it.
#8 August 16, 2011 at 11:06 am
No Man commented:

Making the world a better place one lib at a time.
#9 August 16, 2011 at 11:12 am
greenfairie commented:

The hilarious part of the story is Fairey wouldn’t call the cops because he doesn’t like cops or something…more like, “I was afraid that even unarmed Danish police would laugh in my face.”
#10 August 16, 2011 at 11:16 am
american patriot commented:

“Go back to America.”

No thanks, you can get this lefty over there. We’ve too many here as it is.

“I have a black eye and a bruised rib,” Fairey told the Guardian.

Aww, what a f””’g shame.
#11 August 16, 2011 at 11:18 am
Major Kong commented:

Gee, that’s tough.

Hope?
Nope.
Dope!
#12 August 16, 2011 at 11:22 am
Conservative Ken commented:

This is what happens when the American Left attempts to embrace the social firestorm they created. You would think the left would take a lesson from what happened to Reporter Lara Logan in Egypt.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/journalist-brutally-assaulted-egypt-12929002
#13 August 16, 2011 at 11:26 am
Neo commented:

Hey, he had a bit of bad luck. Who would have thought it .. bad luck.
I don’t remember ever reading in the newspapers or seeing on TV anything about “bad luck” before.
Bush never had “bad luck.” Neither did Clinton or Carter.

“I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God” … with “bad luck”

I guess this was a spot of bad luck.
#15 August 16, 2011 at 11:29 am
Conservative Ken commented:

re: better link

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/02/cbs-news-lara-logan-hospitalized-was-raped-beaten-in-egypt/
#16 August 16, 2011 at 11:31 am
Roy Rogers commented:

Yes They Did!!! Mmm… Mmm…. Mmmmmmmm…….
#17 August 16, 2011 at 11:37 am
Paul commented:

Fairy and Romeo? The Left has become the perfect parody of itself.
#18 August 16, 2011 at 11:42 am
Louie_DaSmasher commented:

Maybe art should not be political after all.
(Fairey is reconsidering this possiblility)
#19 August 16, 2011 at 11:42 am
FurryGuy commented:

So an American Leftist “Artiste” emulates the worst of Soviet-era propaganda art, and finds out many on the Left in other nations are not enamored of America and Americans despite the efforts of the Socialist Triumvirate of Barry, Harry, and Queen Nan.

The world’s a cruel place. Even worse when one is as stupid as Fairey. He’s beyond lucky he’s alive to complain about how cruel other Leftists are.
#20 August 16, 2011 at 11:50 am
jorgen commented:

Isn’t that the style that was in fashion in Stalin’s days? Maybe he should go to Russia instead?
#21 August 16, 2011 at 11:52 am
Stuart commented:

I blame the tea party. Who but the Tea Party would be so insidious as to follow poor Shepard Fairey all the way to Denmark, disguise themselves as anarchists, and beat up a suffering artist?
Who, I ask you? Joe Beiden was right as usual. They are terrorists
#22 August 16, 2011 at 11:53 am
Gringo commented:

According to the progs and libs, the rioters in the UK were not to be blamed for their week of destruction- it was the fault of the meanie government that didn’t give them enough money. Will the libs and progs say that the Obama poster maker got what he deserved, following the same reasoning that those who rob and assault are not to blame?
#23 August 16, 2011 at 11:54 am
RickS commented:

Are you sure this actually happened? Because Europeans like us now. I mean since Nov 2008.
#24 August 16, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Scott M commented:

I’m all for pointing out the fact that as you slide left on the spectrum you tend toward totalitarianism, coercion, and violence, but how are these assailants “left wing radicals”?
#25 August 16, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

I love it when evil eat thier own.
Roflmbo! Priceless!

Powder is dry
#26 August 16, 2011 at 12:16 pm
vityas commented:

I’m so confused!
Europe hated Cowboy Bush.
They wanted Obama.
They got Obama.
And they’re not happy?
They hate Sarah.
They will so hate Rick Perry.
As they say in the South “God Bless their little European hearts.” (No, it’s not a compliment.)
#27 August 16, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Patty commented:

I hate for anyone to be beaten, left or right. But this does reflect on America and just how much others hate us. The whole campaign had something going for it and that was it fooled the foolish and Obama’s campaign was run on two words that the left and some on the right feel hard for during a time when they were looking for Hope and Change.

Seems in the European speeches Obama even fool the liberals. Now, it seems they have seen the Hope and Change propaganda and they don’t like it.
#28 August 16, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Trialdog commented:

Damn anarchists. Don’t tell him to come here. We don’t want him any more than you do.
#29 August 16, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Stuart commented:

Scott M. #24
Calling these radicals either far left or far right probably does not add much information to the equation. Hitler’s S.A., (Nazi, right wing),contained a goodly number of former Communists (left wingers). Trying to attach a label to the thugs who burned London or, for that matter, these Danish Anarchists, is a bit like asking whether the Hell’s Angels are to the right or the left of the Banditos. But don’t doubt for a moment that the left will employ them should they seem to be useful.
#30 August 16, 2011 at 12:38 pm
jimg commented:

but how are these assailants “left wing radicals”? – ScottM

Go read the entire article. It’s quite clear they’re left-wing, and it’s also clear why they’re beating him up.
#31 August 16, 2011 at 1:04 pm
MDd commented:

Left-wing Radicals? I prefer to think of them as “a Democrat Core Constituency”.
#32 August 16, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Valerie commented:

“#29 August 16, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Stuart commented:”

I don’t see how you get the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the National Socialist Worker’s Party (NAZIs) on the opposite side of any political spectrum. They fought one another for dominance of Europe, but they had the same idea, and the same name. I know people like to call Nazis right-wing, but they were extreme socialists or totalitarians, right along the lines of the bunch led by Stalin.

The scale has to be commies & nazis, socialists, liberals & conservatives, libertarians, and anarchists.

To me, the scale should equate with Totalitarianism to no government.
#33 August 16, 2011 at 1:11 pm
ebayer commented:

Every once in a while a story will come along and make my day.

Thanks for making my day Jim!

hahahaha
#34 August 16, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Buffalobob commented:

Being the compassionate conservative that I am, my first reaction to HOPE artist Shepard Fairey being beaten and bloodied,after I stopped laughing, was he should call his beloved obama and ask him to have a bear and bong summit with the Copenhagen youths who acted stupidly.
#35 August 16, 2011 at 1:28 pm
kato commented:

Something is indeed rotten in Denmark. It’s terminally rotted Zeropean culture.

What delicious irony, this: Zeropean leftists beat two sodomites (America’s human equivalent of spotted owls) who are regarded as lackeys for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE recipient, the messiah, His Subprimeness.

It’s going to be hilarious watching asskiss media spin this. We’ll probably find out that there’s an underground cell of tea-partiers in Copenhagen.
#36 August 16, 2011 at 1:36 pm
JDubya commented:

What delicious irony: A leftist propaganda puppet for the president is beaten down by a leftist Eurotrash…in Europe! This IS the land the Leftards want to emulate.

Looks like tender, poor pitiful Shepard Fairy and his “colleague” are not welcome anymore. So much for the 15 minutes.

Better get him a tissue.
#37 August 16, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Conservative Ken commented:

I’d be surprised if this story got any traction since it can’t be spun as a right wing attack. The Norway shooter story got dropped in a hurry when the facts got in the way of the “Right Wing Nut” theory.
#38 August 16, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Stuart commented:

Valerie #32
Actually I quite agree with you. As I mentioned, the former Communists had little trouble becoming Nazis, nor did many former Nazis have a lot of trouble going Red when the Soviets took over E. Germany.
I was using the commonly applied political spectrum. As with so much “common knowledge” it describes the actual situation poorly
#39 August 16, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Don Rodrigo commented:

Shepard Fairey and Romeo Trinidad.

Those names! How perfect! How totally “New Left Gay” is that?

Beaten up by “fellow lefties.” SNORT!
#40 August 16, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Scott M commented:

To me, the scale should equate with Totalitarianism to no government.

The political spectrum is a fairly simple flat plane, though many don’t realize just how simple it is. Forget left and right, for the moment. The opposites are Totalitarianism (or the largest government could possibly be) and anarchy (the smallest government could possibly be). Those that favor government solutions tend toward totalitarianism and those that favor individual or more local solutions slide toward anarchy. For the American spectrum, we identify this as left and right.

This does NOT mean that conservatives want anarchy. That is an extreme right position. Conservatives understand the need for government, but want it contained and compelled by the rule of law. That is NOT a radical position. NO government is a radical position.

Anarchists are NOT left-wing radicals, despite what they might believe of themselves and Nazis are NOT right-wing radicals, despite what progressive want you to believe. Jonah Goldberg did an excellent analysis of this fact in his “Liberal Fascism” book.
#42 August 16, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Andreas K. commented:

Scott, this reminds me of this graphic: http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af270/higuma75/223312558.png
#44 August 17, 2011 at 8:46 am
O:F commented:

Once again, seeing only your own prejudiced perspective is bad for your health.

If you’re a leftist, America is ruled by the “big capital”, right wing christians and jews (Israel). So they all hate America, and what they keep saying is “Obama may be black and a democrat, but he still has three wars going and the US will still keep looking for oil and start new wars.”

If you’re a right wing, nazi or nationalist, America is (surprise!) still ruled by jews (Israel) which they call international capitalism, and also a symbol of the big multi-cultural witches cauldron.

This is why leftist extremists, nazis and islamists, despite them hating each other, can still get together and a have a nice anti-Israel riot and fight with local police.

America being liked by europeans? Try making more movies and tv-shows like “Band of brothers” and “american idol”, everyone watches those. Politics? Don’t try.