Glenn Beck's '9-12' logo based on communist and socialist designs

[kpete]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Glenn Beck's '9-12' logo based on communist and socialist designs
September 13, 2009 | 10:30 am

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Taxpayer March Ever since Glenn Beck took to the Fox television airwaves recently to offer a bizarre reading of the art commissioned 70 years ago for New York's Rockefeller Center, I've been puzzled by the graphic design element of his 9-12 Project. The logo (pictured) for his affiliated groups' rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend derives from century-old communist, socialist and other left-wing designs.



Unity and resistance are what the fist represented in 1917, when it was first employed by the Industrial Workers of the World, a union organization founded by socialists. And in the 1940s, when it stood for various nations' communist party organizations.

Fist Progressive Labor Party That's also what it meant when it was revived in the 1960s, appearing as a symbol for the SDS, as well as anti-war and feminist movements. It was the basis for the black-power salute given by John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. And today, it's the symbol for the Progressive Labor Party (pictured), a political outfit whose website says it "fights to smash capitalism."

more:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/09/glenn-becks-912-logo-based-on-on-communist-and-socialist-designs.html

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Why do Republicon Homelanders LOVE Totalitarian Socialism?

Why do Republicon Homelanders HATE America and Americans?

Why do they follow a cabal of overpaid Chickenhawk'leaders'?

[tomm2thumbs]

2. i'm aghast. you figured it out. Beck has gone some explainin' to do

[rucky]

3. Could be the Aryan Fist...

[madrchsod]

4. i expected to see this one.....