Obama Spokesman Jay Carney Decorates Home with Soviet Propaganda Posters

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Hope, Change and Gulag. But maybe Jay, Obama’s own propagandist, needs some inspiration.

This sort of thing is relatively commonplace among liberal yuppies, but it does undermine the family values routine in the highly staged photo. Most American families don’t do their breakfast cooking while Communist characters glared angrily at them from the wall.

It’s one thing to put up Communist propaganda posters in your dorm room or your sixth floor walk up flat that you share with your roommate, but there’s something messed up about using that to decorate a family kitchen.

No one would have Nazi WW2 posters hanging there. They certainly wouldn’t be photographed with them.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has two framed Soviet propaganda posters in his home, as revealed by the latest edition of Washingtonian magazine.

The magazine features Carney in a glowing profile on his family life featuring his wife ABC News contributor Claire Shipman.

In the background of one photo, however, there are two Soviet propaganda posters framed on the wall.

It could be worse though, considering the taste that lefty elitist insiders have in artwork.

Tony Podesta was no ordinary man. A longtime Democratic aide, a counselor to Teddy Kennedy, Tony had been one of the capital’s most powerful lobbyists for some time. As his lawyers would later put it, “‘Podesta’ was a widely recognized and well-respected name in the lobbying industry at the time of the marriage.” The lobbying firm he had established in 1987 was powerfully connected. His younger brother, John, was President Clinton’s chief of staff. Tony Podesta owned art and wine and real estate in Italy, in Australia, in northern Virginia, and in D.C.

They would visit their apartment in Venice, Italy, up to a dozen times a year, hosting Janet Napolitano, entertaining passersby such as Reps. Shelley Berkley and Eliot Engel, “even,” the Post once breathlessly intoned, “Teddy Kennedy.” They’d open their homes to tours, so people could enjoy the art, could witness the spectacle of their wealth. One story they liked to tell took place in 2004, when the guests at their northern Virginia home, near Lake Barcroft, walked into a bedroom festooned with the works of Katy Grannan, “a photographer known for documentary-style pictures of naked teenagers in their parents’ suburban homes.” The guests were shocked. But oh, how Tony and Heather laughed.

Obama’s America. Please ignorance any resemblance to Weimar Germany.

  • Bill Cervetti

    Aw,come on. “Let’s move on, nothing to see here”. You just don’t understand the concept of “Ironic Art” and the Left’s appreciation of “inclusiveness” in their broad, ultra-sophisticated,apparently effortless ability to find and boldly hang on their very kitchen walls the agit-prop pseudo-art that reaches across the decades and strikes a warm and friendly chord of kinship in their internally bleeding hearts. It’s hip, it’s cool, it’s, above all, NOW. But they did stop short of showing any of the kid’s wearing a Che T -shirt. /sarc.

    • A Z

      Nothing to see? After looking at the original Washingtonian article my opinion of Jay Carney has sunk to a new low and it was already at the bottom of the abyss.

      • Bill Cervetti

        You didn’t notice the /sarc tag I put at the end, or my followup post on “the
        people’s cube”?? I was channelling the Leftist mindset and the fatuous explanations they might make for the propaganda they enjoy in their homes.It’s proof of their “hipness”.

        • A Z

          I didn’t notice the ‘/sarc’. I did get the “Let’s move on, nothing to see here” meme. I still think he has sunk to new low.

          Outside of the Beltway or similar environs I cannot see what he would do for a job.

  • Bill Cervetti

    Now I’m inspired, and am going to go searching for some posters for MY kitchen, from the great “People’s Cube”site. Now , those are some REAL posters,and transcendent Political Art!

    • A Z

      That is a great site, thx! More people ought find it.

      “Oleg Atbashian: Before moving to the U.S. in 1994, Atbashian lived in Ukraine where he sometimes worked as a propaganda artist for the old Soviet Union, creating agitprop posters for the local Party Committee in a small town. During that time, Oleg says he “witnessed the transition of Republics of the Soviet Union from corrupt socialism to corrupt kleptocracy.”

      When he arrived in the U.S., Atbashian was puzzled by the “level of delusional affection for all things Left among the ‘liberal’ intellectual elites who take America’s exclusive well-being for granted.” At that time Oleg dismissed this “delusional affection” as silly and of little consequence.

      Then 9/11 happened. ”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People's_Cube

    • darnellecheri

      Another satirical but bone crushingly realistic site: blog.ushanka.us – “Tracking Communist Activities Globally, and Communist Inspirations Nationally since 2006.”

  • Habbgun

    Is that the original photo from the mag? If so they obviously photoshopped them in. Tells us who they think their audience is.

  • Veracious_one

    I’m now inspired to put up a couple of Marine Corp recruiting posters….

    • darnellecheri

      That’s hot.

  • Judahlevi

    It is natural that leftists such as Carney worship the collectivism of the former Soviet Union – they imagine themselves as political directors and commissars. The official government party will be the Democrats with Republicans and Independents eliminated or put into reeducation camps.

    Most Americans will be cogs in their collectivist machine which will function to provide the luxuries the ‘party’ needs. After all, because we aren’t as smart as they are, we certainly cannot have a say about how the country functions.

    Besides, we would just be “bitter clingers” to our guns and religion.

    • Gee

      I recall a couple of other people that clung to their guns and religion. One was name George Washington and the other Thomas Jefferson.

  • darnellecheri

    See all that bread and juice in the kitchen? Someone needs to teach those kids that in the USSR most citizens didn’t have the fortune to have a spread like that unless you were part and parcel of the nomenklatura, which the Carney’s would most likely be. I am sorry, it is indeed a little messed up or just horribly pretentious.

    • Daniel Greenfield

      They would have been indeed

    • truebearing

      Just for fun, wouldn’t it be fun to photoshop Carney’s family into a Soviet kitchen circa 1960? The room would be a lot smaller and I doubt the windows would be quite as big. The fruit would be replaced with stale bread and empty vodka bottles. The happy faces would contrast wonderfully with the drab squalor.

      Or how about a shot of the family lurching down a bumpy road in their sexy new Moskvich, the back bumper plastered with Stalin bumber stickers and oily carbon?

  • wileyvet

    I’m just wondering how that wiener convinced anyone to procreate with him.

    • Gee

      Even weaker minded

  • JAA

    Way too much starch/carbs in that kitchen! What would the 1st lady think?