{"id":11759,"date":"2011-10-24T08:59:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2011-10-24T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:00:21","slug":"obama-organizers-seeks-poster-artists-to-work-for-free-on-jobs-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/obama-organizers-seeks-poster-artists-to-work-for-free-on-jobs-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama organizers seeks poster artists to work for free on jobs campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, really, the irony meter just pegged<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Obama campaign has more than $60 million cash on hand. In an economy this bad, you’d think a presidential campaign that flush would be happy to pay good money for a talented designer to create a campaign poster. <\/p>\n

But the folks at Obama campaign have taken a page from the Arianna Huffington book of economic exploitation and called on “artists across the country” to create a poster … for free.<\/p>\n

And here’s the kicker. It’s a jobs<\/em> poster.<\/p>\n

Yes, the Obama campaign is soliciting unpaid labor to create a poster “illustrating why we support President Obama’s plan to create jobs now, and why we’ll re-elect him to continue fighting for jobs for the next four years.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Virginia Postrel (via Google+) for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, really, the irony meter just pegged: The Obama campaign has more than $60 million cash on hand. In an economy this bad, you’d think a presidential campaign that flush would be happy to pay good money for a talented designer to create a campaign poster. But the folks at Obama campaign have taken a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[102,158,95],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-art","tag-barackobama","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-33F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}