It turns out that Obama, the manufactured candidate, was given his iconic campaign poster by a manufactured poster "artist" named Shepard Fairey, who has just formally admitted lying to a court to evade a lawsuit brought by AP. The news agency claimed that Fairey expropriated their photo as the basis for the famous HOPE poster. The Los Angeles Times reports:In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his "Hope" poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama."Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE...(Read Full Post)