RNC Convention logo: subliminal messages

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

You really have to ask yourself "what were they thinking?"  Check out the "wide stance" of the elephant over "Minneapolis-St. Paul."  Was this meant to be a tribute to Senator Larry Craig?  Senator Larry Craig’s Wide Stance Stall is Set to Return to the Spotlight

Thousands of members of the international media will have to walk past it when they land at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul at the end of the summer.

Many will feel obligated to stop and file a story.

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The parade of airport tourists asking for directions to the stall (right at the Chili’s, left at the Royal Zino shoeshine) has died down a bit since last summer, but is expected to pick up as the GOP and the press arrive in town in late August, whether or not Craig himself shows up as a delegate.

I have heard from my sources that the airport may schedule guided tours of the the Larry Craig restroom so that curious gawkers are not unfairly arrested by overly-aggressive local police for lewd and lascivious loitering.

And check out the stylized prison stripes on the elephant.  Was this meant to symbolize the "GOP culture of corruption"?  What message did Republicans send to the country when Alaska Republicans on Tuesday selected Senator Ted Stevens (under indictment) and Rep. Don Young (under investigation) in their GOP primary?  The party which professes to be the party of "law and order" is in reality the party that doesn’t give a sh*t about the rule of law when they are engaged in breaking the law – or the Constitution.  For a fairly comprehensive list of Republicans indicted, convicted or under investigation, check out REPUBLICAN OFFENDERS.

Finally, there is the crazed starry-eye of the elephant.  Was this meant to symbolize the wild-eyed radical extremism of the GOP – from Neoconservative imperialist war mongers to Christian Taliban Dominionists – who demand strict fealty to ideology and reject rationalism and reality?  Who can forget the infamous quote from a Bush aid to writer Ron Suskind: "We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."  Or as Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has dubbed it, post-rationalism.  "Don’t bother me with any facts, I know what I believe."