A hat tip to Ed O’Keefe over at the Washington Post for following up on this Missile Defense Agency logo foofarah. Conservative bloggers got all worked up because a new MDA logo’s color scheme and apparent “O” shape resembled the Obama campaign logo. Some of the loonier commenters online thought it was patterned after the Islamic star and crescent, echoing the “Obama is a Muslim” smear from 2008.
One blogger, Frank Gaffney, made the especially silly claim that the logo proves Obama’s decision to kill the highly flawed and, according to the Air Force chief of staff, “not … operationally viable” airborne laser program was actually a step towards Muslim Sharia law.
But there’s just one problem with that theory. MDA spokesman Rick Lehner told O’Keefe the logo was actually created in 2007:
This was a logo that was developed three years ago for our recruiting materials and our public Web site. It did not replace our official MDA logo, and of course it has no ties to any political campaign. It was done one year before the 2008 elections. So the whole thing is pretty ridiculous.
Lehner also told the Post that printing the the new insignia is cheaper for MDA — “it’s three colors as opposed to the five colors on the official logo.”
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