Saturday, February 25, 2012

Creator of Obama 'Hope' poster lied to court about artwork, faces jail

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2/25/12, "Lying artist ‘Hope’less," NY Post

"The artist who created the iconic “HOPE” poster (pictured) for President Obama’s 2008 campaign faces up to six months in the slammer for lying in court papers about the source of his inspiration.

Prosecutor Daniel Levy said the feds will likely seek “some term of imprisonment” after Shepard Fairey pleaded guilty yesterday to a misdemeanor charge of contempt.

Fairey, 42, admitted undertaking an elaborate scheme to make it seem that he used one Associated Press photograph of Obama “as a reference” for his famous image, when in reality he had used another AP image."...

Accurate but fake. ed.

via Free Republic

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