Washington Publish metro reporter Sophia Solano printed a narrative on-line Thursday morning (and more likely to air in Friday’s paper) fawning over the far-left weirdo who chucked a Subway sandwich at regulation enforcement officers on August 10 in downtown Washington, declaring him “a resistance icon” and “image” of the town’s “resistance” to President Trump’s push to carry down crime.
Solano’s piece was giddy in showcasing the miscreant having become a t-shirt, mural, and even his sandwich getting used as bars instead of the pink stripes for Washington D.C.’s flag.
Her headline and subhead set the desk: “How a thrown sub made ‘Sandwich Man’ a resistance icon in Trump’s D.C.; A DOJ worker was fired and charged with a felony after chucking a footlong at a federal agent. Now his likeness is a logo — and on the market on T-shirts.”
Her lede was equally dumb: “The place protest actions take maintain, symbols of resistance quickly observe. In Washington, because the Trump administration has taken over the town’s police drive and ordered the Nationwide Guard to patrol the streets, that image has taken the type of an individual who flung a footlong sub. His identify, colloquially, is ‘Sandwich Man.’”
She then dropped the man’s identify (Sean Charles Dunn) and that he was axed by the Justice Division for his actions, which she gushed over as “the lob heard ’around the District.”
After mentioning his felony cost and that each he and his legal professional wouldn’t remark, Solano pivoted to this supposed cultural heartthrob: “Per week after the sandwich was slung, Dunn’s likeness has popped up across the metropolis and on social media. Memes and artwork have flooded D.C. accounts. Protesters have held Subway sandwiches to the sky at protests in a logo of defiance. And, sure, now you can purchase a shirt.”
She lastly dug into the artwork that’s allegedly sweeping the capital metropolis, beginning with big posters of Dunn “plastered on buildings in Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle, Union Market and different in style neighborhoods.”
Predictably, she discovered teachers to present it two thumbs up and speculated Dunn ought to have lobbed a half-smoke from Ben’s Chili Bowl as a substitute (click on “broaden”):
This time, one poster that nods to Sandwich Man, plastered on buildings in Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle, Union Market and different in style neighborhoods, spoofs road artist Banksy’s “Flower Thrower.” The piece, initially seen within the West Financial institution, depicts a person winding up his arm to throw a bouquet of flowers as a substitute of, say, a grenade. Round D.C., the flowers are changed by a hoagie.
“Whoever got here up with that transposition, I imply, that’s an excellent piece of road artwork,” mentioned Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist on the College of Baltimore specializing in graffiti and road artwork. “And will probably be one in all a number of. When someone writes the historical past of this era, that may undoubtedly be one of many iconic photos that comes out of it.”
To Ross, the incident was a “good storm” for virality. (The one element that might have improved it, he mentioned, was if Dunn threw a meals extra intently related to D.C., like a half smoke from Ben’s Chili Bowl.) For one, there was the irony of Dunn’s employment — not solely in a federal workplace, however for a federal legal company, he mentioned. There was the felony cost, which he known as an “overcharge,” that heightened public consideration.
And maybe most significantly, there was the truth that the incident was textbook slapstick: a thwacking sandwich, a flat-footed police chase, a close-up of the discarded projectile, nonetheless enclosed in a Subway wrapper.
“Let’s be sincere,” mentioned Rochester-based artist Adam Goldfarb, “no one needs to waste a sandwich. However taking a look at this administration, the cruelty, the corruption, the disregard for primary democratic values and societal norms, it looks like, so typically, there’s nothing we will do. So I completely perceive this, ‘We simply have to do one thing,’ and also you’ve acquired a sandwich in your hand.”
Goldfarb, who lived within the D.C.-area for 15 years, is now promoting shirts he designed as a tribute to the incident. On one, a cartoon hoagie, over the phrase “resist,” wears a watch patch. He needed to create a personality “who you can inform had seen some issues and had had sufficient.” He hasn’t bought any but.
He closed with one other commie artist in search of to make a fast buck who’s “bought over $4,300 value of merch on her Etsy web site, together with T-shirts, tote luggage, pins and digital prints” and “donated that cash to Miriam’s Kitchen, Capital Space Meals Financial institution, Meals Not Bombs DC and different space organizations.”
“To [Lorraine] Hu, the design is resonating with folks due to ‘how surreal and objectively not dangerous the act of throwing a sandwich is,’” Solano added with Hu telling her this “innocuous image of a sandwich” has left D.C. residents feeling one thing higher.
This isn’t the liberal media’s first rodeo fawning over an innocuous leftist’s infantile antics. In 2017, they had been ebullient over Loudoun County lady Juli Briskman flipping off President Trump whereas on her bicycle. As a result of Northern Virginia is an out-of-touch, dark-blue dystopia, Briskman parlayed this stunt into elected workplace.
Upon her election, she obtained hero’s welcomes on CNN and MSNBC.
However when it got here to “Let’s Go Brandon” bit, CNN wasn’t having it.
