That depends on what kind of beer he used.
Which of these images is supposed to be an example of Obama as The Messiah? Not just as a spiritual figure, but as The Messiah?
The New York Magazine one, btw, doesn’t belong on the list in any case–it is clearly intended as a comment on attitudes toward Obama, rather than being intended as a characterization of Obama’s own ontological category. The same arguably goes for some of the other images you linked to.
Even culling the list of images that fail to make your point that there are lefties who think Obama is the Messiah, the point you’re making fails to have much import for the conversation. No one denied that there are lefties who think Obama is the messiah. What was denied was that lefties in general think Obama is the messiah.
All kidding aside, it’s still a major cop-out on Beck’s part. Instead of Obama in Pee-Pee, he has created [drunken fratboy] THE PRESIDENT IN BEER, WOOOOOOOOO!!! [/df]
Apart from the other criticisms, how do we know any of those were created by lefties? And if they were, how do we know they weren’t being parodic or satirical, as Beck is alleged to be?
Do you want the words “The Messiah” written across his forehead?
The post to which this was the response claimed that right-wingers invented the idea of Obama as The Messiah. Or to be precise:
“Don’t know why it’s always the cranks on the right who equate Obama with Christ.”
Because they did. Now, there may be some few left-wingers who truly believe he is the incarnation of a deity which is a pretty good trick for godless secular atheist humanists or whatever it is you guys think liberals are. But there has not been any sort of movement to consider him as such, it has not informed liberal political strategies and it hasn’t even really been at the forefront of our minds. You’ll notice it took Glenn Beck to get us even talking about it.
Suuuure. And all those left-wingers who deify Obama apparently fell into the right-wingers trap, right? They could have never thought it up themselves.
Are you really this stupid, or is this just you having a good cry?
Are all three of those categories necessary? Is the presence of all three sufficient? Can you provide a piece of bad art which cannot be argued to have these aspects?
That’s probably the whole thing right there.
Reading ralph124c’s post, it occurred to me that Beck probably hoped and expected somebody would call for arresting him, or censoring him, or something. He really believes the right’s narrative that the left worships Obama, and couldn’t take an Obama action doll floating in urine/Heineken without rioting or something. Then he’d get to be all ‘first amendment’ and call the left hypocrites.
It would have been much better if it had been an effigy of Obama displayed in a container full of Barack Obama’s piss.
I wonder what Jamie Foxx would look like in a jar of piss. Or maybe a Fear Factor contestant…
It’s been done. And parody only works when you parody something people recognize. “Piss Christ” was 25 years ago so the only people who remember it are pop culture mavens, like us, or people who are still pissed after 25 years of it festering, like Glenn Beck’s fans.
The only reason I know about it is because of the SDMB 
Maybe you should take that to The Game Room, where you can be edumacated about the early, heavily-Jewish, years of the NBA. You should know better than to try that joke at the SDMB, where there are thousands of readers with brains bursting with useless information but who cannot talk about it IRL for fully-justified fear of alienating every Normal they know.
It’s not really a trap so much as Elmer J. Beck thinking it’s obamassiah season.
I don’t think Jamie Foxx would fit into a Fear Factor contestant.
I’m not going to argue against the First Amendment. If “Piss Obama” strikes some Americans as good art, that’s their right.
But what I’d like to see as wonderful performance art is Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh wiping their own shit on each others’ faces while reciting nonsense like this quote from Terr:
A Thomas Kinkaid Christmas scene?
Slowly, I turned…step by step, inch by inch…