Firas Alkhateeb

we don't need another hero; Firas, in all his glory.

Firas Alkhateeb is the not so anonymous artiste who turned a Time magazine cover photo of President Barack Obama into the Joker. Alkhateeb claims to be an artist living in Chicago, and enjoys shooping political propaganda. You can halp by researching this international man mystery closer.

Fans?!

from Moot to this.

Quotes

	“	Someone else downloaded the image, removed the references to TIME, added the word "socialism," and created a poster that has appeared all over the country.	„
	—Jake Tapper

	“	After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ	„
	—Alkhateeb

	“	If he had to choose a politician to support, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich...	„
	—Alkhateeb clearly fucked up here

	“	On Alkhateeb's page, a manipulated image condemning fellow Chicagoan and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (captioned "epic fail") was mixed in with parodies of the "Guitar Hero" game franchises -- dubbed Quran Hero -- and of Napoleon riding a motorcycle (pictured after the jump	„
	—LA times

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WHY SO Alkhateeb?!

• Capitalism
• Communism
• Conservatism
• Epic Fail
• heatlh care
• Internet Politics
• Obama
• politics
• shoop

Resources

• Firas Alkhateeb shit article on TOW
• Obama Artist Unmasked justoneminute blog
• LA Times Blog article on this funny shit
• thomashawk flickr rant and hilarious commentary on this topic

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