Flickr Deletes Obama Caricature – Flickr – Gawker.
It originally looked like Firas Alkhateeb, a Palestinian American University of Illinois student, had removed the caricature himself. But it turns out Flickr “removed the Joker image due to copyright-infringement concerns.” Because that doctored Time cover (above) could totally be confused with the copyrighted original, as opposed to, say, a transformative political satire!
As the Slashdot crowd has been quick to point out, there are all sorts of copyrighted and often doctored images involving George W. Bush (and others – NSFW) on Flickr. Meanwhile, Obama has opened the door to lucrative government contracts for the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site.
ONCE AGAIN the Left has shown itself to be arch-hypocritical; it’s okay for them to slander, insult, smear, and undermine anyone they oppose, even manufacturing scandals and lying to do so, but let anyone even dare to critiicize one of theirs and they are seething with outrage.