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(remaining) possible sources

Los Angeles Times, "Shepard Fairey has 'doubts' about intelligence of Obama Joker artist", August 10, 2009.
The Washington Independent, "Alex Jones and the ‘Joker’ Meme", August 10, 2009.
WFTV, "Post Office Vandalized With Obama 'Joker' Posters", August 12, 2009.
Fox News, "Florida Police Question Vandalism Suspect About Obama Joker Poster", August 14, 2009.
- ABC News, video, "Locals Offended by 'Joker' Obama Pics", August 14, 2009.
The Guardian, "US student comes forward as creator of Obama-Joker image", August 18, 2009.
ABC News, "Artist of Obama "Joker" Poster Image Identified -- and He's Not a Conservative", August 18, 2009.
Chicago Tribune, "Obama's not first 'Joker' POTUS", August 18, 2009.
- WLS-TV, video, "Artist speaks out about Obama image", August 19, 2009.
Northwest Florida Daily News, "Anti-Obama posters pop up near schools", September 9, 2009.
The Charlotte Observer, "House disapproves of outburst", September 16, 2009.

Interesting Dilemma With Regards to Artist's Political Views

I am Firas Alkhateeb, the original artist of the poster. The article cites me as a "self-described liberal", which is not true. I am in fact an independent, but many media outlets misunderstood my supporting of SOME of Kucinich's ideas to constitute me being a liberal. I would just go ahead and change the article to say I'm an independent, but the news that wikipedia is supposed to cite all labels me as a liberal, thus, I suppose I can't prove it according to wiki standards. I'm a relative novice at wikipedia so I have no idea what to do in this situation. Khateeb88 (talk) 17:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has already removed the liberal description, which is fine. I've made a lot of changes to the article in the past two days, but it's still very much "under construction". One change I'm going to make (which will hopefully address the liberal description) is the following: Several news reports mention that critics of the poster initially thought the artist was a racist, white conservative. When the artist turned out to be a Palestinian American who (according to news reports) thought Kucinich would make a good president, the media mentioned how those critics were in fact wrong. APK say that you love me 21:12, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 ==(remaining) possible sources==
-* [http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article1024830.ece ''St. Petersburg Times''], "Pinellas GOP denies link to Facebook page with image of Obama as Joker", August 5, 2009.
-* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/05/obama-as-joker-poster ''The Guardian''], "Why the Obama as Joker poster leaves a bad taste in the mouth", August 5, 2009.
 * [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-joker-shepard-fairey.html ''Los Angeles Times''], "Shepard Fairey has 'doubts' about intelligence of Obama Joker artist", August 10, 2009.
 * [http://washingtonindependent.com/54467/alex-jones-and-the-joker-meme ''The Washington Independent''], "Alex Jones and the ‘Joker’ Meme", August 10, 2009.
 * [http://www.wftv.com/news/20362245/detail.html WFTV], "Post Office Vandalized With Obama 'Joker' Posters", August 12, 2009.
-* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111801762 NPR], "Racist Messages, Attacks Infect Health Care Debate", August 12, 2009.
 * [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/14/florida-police-question-suspect-obama-joker-poster/ Fox News], "Florida Police Question Vandalism Suspect About Obama Joker Poster", August 14, 2009.
 ** [http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8319018 ABC News], '''video''', "Locals Offended by 'Joker' Obama Pics", August 14, 2009.
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 * [http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/pagespage/2009/08/does-the-face-behind-this-joker-makeup-look-familiar---yup-thats-george-w-bush-just-to-let-you-folks-know-that-bara.html ''Chicago Tribune''], "Obama's not first 'Joker' POTUS", August 18, 2009.
 ** [http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=6973516 WLS-TV], '''video''', "Artist speaks out about Obama image", August 19, 2009.
-* [http://www.thestar.com/article/688445 ''Toronto Star''], "'Freedom lover' behind 'Obama Joker' posters", August 30, 2009.
 * [http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/pop-20438-anti-posters.html ''Northwest Florida Daily News''], "Anti-Obama posters pop up near schools", September 9, 2009.
 * [http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/950484.html ''The Charlotte Observer''], "House disapproves of outburst", September 16, 2009.
-* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704514.html?hpid=moreheadlines ''The Washington Post''], 'Pelosi Says Anti-Obama Rhetoric Sounds Familiar", September 18, 2009.
-* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092802468.html Associated Press], via ''The Washington Post'', "Activists protest Va. strip club's Obama banner", September 28, 2009.
-* [http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/VELV29_20090928-215603/296112/ ''Richmond Times-Dispatch''], "NAACP protests anti-Obama poster outside strip club", September 29, 2009.
 == Interesting Dilemma With Regards to Artist's Political Views ==