yet another reason to dislike Clear Channel

[juldea]

Warning: this is a knee-jerk anti-Bush post.

A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling photograph of President Bush with the words “Our Leader” is raising eyebrows among progressives who feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda used by tyrannical regimes.

RAW STORY confirmed the billboard’s existence Monday evening. At our behest, a member of an Orlando media organization drove past the billboard on two occasions and verified that it was indeed the one pictured.

The billboard pictured, which is on I-4, says that it is a “political public service message brought to you by Clear Channel Outdoor.”

Full text, pictures: http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=442

Comments

[adalius.livejournal.com]

What I find hilarious is the people saying "This reeks of communism! Didn't Saddam have images of himself up all over? What next, statues?" Um, do these people not realize that Saddam issued almost every single one of those works to be put up? It wasn't like some party decided they liked him so much they'd do it on their own with their own money...

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

Well a party did decide to do that but it was his party. It's the same here in that Clear Channel is Republican but this isn't anywhere near what Saddam was doing. I remember reading a book about a journalist who went to Iraq in 1990 and talked about how the pictures were EVERYWHERE.