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Obama Spokesman Jay Carney Decorates Home with Soviet Propaganda Posters

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 13, 2014 @ 11:25 am In The Point | 20 Comments

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.


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