When the internet gets bored it can be quite resourceful! A seemingly innocent and insignificant change took place at the US Missile Defense Agency’s website when they replaced their old Atari Missile Command-style logo with a new stylized red, white and blue logo. Some blogger picked up on the change (probably Mike over at beautifulmissiledefenselogo.blogspot.com) and then someone else (or perhaps it was the same person) noticed a striking similarity to the stylized American Flag logo used by Barack Obama! Uh oh.
Here is the Obama logo:
And here is what the Missile Defense Agency’s old logo looked like:
Not only that, but folks have pointed out that there is a distinct crescent moon shape, a symbol of the Islamic faith! Sites like Free Republic are all a-fluster about the end of the United States as we know it and some have even expanded the conspiracy circles to include other logos like the Aerospace Data Facility’s latest. They’re very close to bridging the gap between the new logo and the Kennedy assassination, coming as close as Burger King (from FireAndreaMitchell.com):
Weasel Zippers did some digging around and found out that TMP Government, the same company that redesigned Recovery.gov came up with this logo. In fact, they also did work for (last year) Burger King which (coincidentally?) is who our Surgeon General was an adviser for. What a coincidence don’t you think?
Whoah! Relax folks! Starcasm is on the case! We put our own crack team of investigators on it and they have discovered the actual inspiration for the new MDA logo, and it has nothing to do with Obama or Islam at all. It comes from a 4th of July themed episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien featuring the much-loved recurring character The Masturbating Bear:
To assuage fears, our team is currently looking into The Masturbating Bear to see if he has any ties to Al Qaeda or Barack Obama. (His name does seem to suggest he might have worked for the government at some point.)