Yet another nontroversy featuring Obama and an ice cream store logo
When you’re the President of the US, taking a family vacation isn’t just a matter of loading the Magic Van with the wife and kiddies and booking it for some private time. Nosiree Bob. Everything you do is under the media spotlight, every stop on the way is a photo-op for news outlets hungry for content. Case in point – when the Obamas toured Bar Harbor, 
Maine as 
part of their vacation back in July, taking in tourist destinations like Acadia National Park and Cadillac Mountain. Those visits didn’t hit the press however, with most focusing on the First Family’s stop at a small ice cream shop called Mt. Desert Island Ice Cream. Right leaning political blogs fired up their conspiracy machines, wondering if Obama picked the shop because of their logo’s apparent similarity to the old Black Power clenched fist logo from the 1960s (sadly, I am not making this up). One blogger even went as far as to suggest that Obama chose this ice cream shop to send out a message to his “core radical base.” Some even opined that the logo was reminiscent of the Black Panthers (it isn’t – the Black Panthers logo is, well, a black panther). Even the New York Times picked up on the flap, telling readers about “President Obama’s Vast Ice-Cream Conspiracy.” Oddly, nobody seemed to notice the logo (left) for The 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington, organized by the decidedly conservative organization Freedom Works, featuring similar Soviet Era iconography. The fists are red, and we all know what that means (see – anyone can play).
Alas, this isn’t the first time that a logo has caused a kerfluffle amongst Obama’s political opponents. Anyone remember the Missile Defense Islamic crescent logo that wasn’t? Or how about the Nuclear Security Summit Islamic crescent logo that wasn’t either?
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Give me a frickin’ break – but I hope the ice cream shop is doing a booming business with all the free advertising!
Oy vey. Here we go again. Personally, the second I looked at the side by side at the top of the post, the first thing that came to mind was the logo for Howard Stern’s show, not some covert modern day-radical-black power thing. Guess I’ll the tin foil hat will have to dragged out of storage now… Thanks for bringing all this asshattery to light, Steve. FIGHT THE POWER!
Obama has made enough real mistakes to talk about for years to come. I don’t see a need to reach for a ridiculous stretch like these nut jobs have. It’s a damn ice cream logo. Nothing more.
Are people losing their friggin’ collective minds??? It’s a freakin’ ice cream shop in Maine! Last I heard (and I could just be a misinformed Canadian) there are very few radical pro-black movements in Bar Harbor – a town where 98% of the 4,820 people are white! (http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin.....Index=2021) Did the Obama’s make sure to order chocolate ice cream to reinforce their message to said “core radical base.”? Seriously…