Oh, I’m just an idiot!

(Yes, I expect to see that hed quoted out of context at some point in the future.)

Over at Reason, the always-sensible Michael Moynihan points to Shepard Fairey’s reaction to the Obama-as-Joker image:

“A lot of these things are fueled by frustration,” Fairey said. “Maybe they’re frustrated and don’t understand the whole situation.”

But who is Fairey to criticize the nefarious Obama poster when he himself is responsible for numerous artworks that …painted President Bush as the villain? “My frustration with Bush was fueled by a very clear understanding of what’s going on,” he asserted.

Got that? If you don’t support Obama, you must be a frustrated, confused halfwit who doesn’t quite understand why the government would give Americans $4500 for a 2004 Dodge Dakota. As an amateur scholar of Marxism who has a pretty clear understanding of “what’s going on,” Fairey is doubtless referencing Engels’ idea of “false consciousness,” but presumes us Obama skeptics are too thick for such profundities.

Got it. I’m just an idiot who don’t gots no idea what the magnificent One is up to. Noted. Moving along…