Comments on: Tea Party’s Logo Design Comes From Communist, Socialist Roots

By: big daddy

big daddy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:45:25 +0000

These people have no idea what they’re evolving towards.Maybe it’s a good thing the detention centers are being built.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:44:15 +0000

I love Glenn Beck! he is a hero! but it does make me wonder…there seems to be a lot of questions but no answers

if glenn beck didnt murder and then rape a young girl, and I am sure he didnt!, then im sure he’ll prove it to all the haters

By: NH

NH — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:13:01 +0000

Yeah so what? No one has the monopoly on the ‘fist’ which means ANGER from whatever side it comes.

This article is a waste of time.

By: Truth Seeker

Truth Seeker — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:51:32 +0000

I think the real question on everyone’s mind is

Who really raped and murdered that girl in 1990.

When I do my research in google, I get 400million+ hits that says Glenn Beck did.

And here recently, a body of a girl was found at Yale. The woman who was getting married yesterday. As all of you know, Glenn Beck dropped out because he was an alcoholic.

This is not a coincidence.

By: Terri Lloyd

Terri Lloyd — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:12 +0000

As a designer of logos, as an artist, AND a social-anarchist I’m going to say this might be a stretch, and perhaps a tad inaccurate, if not propagandist. Yes, it’s an icon that was first RECOGNIZED perhaps in colloquial culture with leftist movements in the US, but I think we need to maybe look further into the history of iconography to determine exactly where the upraised fist originates. I would say we need to look at this image globally AND historically.

By: Jeff Little

Jeff Little — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:05:38 +0000

Thats Funny I thought it was the universal sign for fisting.

By: Another Opinion

Another Opinion — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:23:41 +0000

That’s like saying Obama’s logo is round and so is the PLP’s above so they must both be communist… sorry, bad analogy… choose someone else’s round logo compared to the PLP…

anyway, since when does communists get a copyright on a body part?

it just as the first comment… it a generic symbol of a like minded group who oppose some policy, social idea etc…

didn’t black panthers use the fist also? maybe what it really stands for is ‘revolution’

By: MilitantCentrist

MilitantCentrist — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:07:14 +0000

Meh. Iconography like that always ends up being subverted, perverted, remixed, and reused.

I could point to numerous examples of both anti-Bush and anti-Obama paraphernalia that are mildly disturbing to folks like you and I, just because we understand some of the history behind the icons/coloring/design, but which doesn’t even register with the general public.

At this point, that fist is almost clip-art; a stock element used to assert populist support for what you’re trying to do/say.