Virginia Republicans spent Monday in damage control after the state party was forced to condemn an email sent around to some of its supporters featuring a zombie collage that depicted President Barack Obama shot in the head.
In what’s clearly a Halloween-themed mailer, an image of a zombie hoard from The Walking Dead comic books, several other pieces of zombie art including a photo of Obama supporters and a jack-o-lantern are spaced apart by the defaced portraits of President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Obama’s render, a modification of his campaign’s famous “Hope” poster by artist Shepard Fairey, is seen zombified, making him appear severely wounded. There’s a bullet hole in his forehead, and his brain is exposed.
Let me just say that I am a huge fan of the Walking Dead series, but that in no way excuses the depiction of the President with a bullet hole in his head.
Have these people no sense of history? Have they never heard of John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King Jr.? I mean for God's sake this man is BOTH a symbol for black Americans like MLK, AND a progressive President like Kennedy. showing an illustration with a bullet in his head is the unbelievably insensitive!
In my opinion it appears that they used the zombie motif, and the excuse of Halloween, to depict an image that secretly pleases them, hoping they could hide behind the zombification of his image and the holiday to hide their intent.
