The New Yorker's "Politics of Fear" cover featuring the Obamas is sheer genius (I especially LOVE Michelle -- these next four years are gonna be great!). Sure, 80 percent of Americans are too stupid to "get it." But these are the same people who are too busy celebrating the death of Saddam Hussein as payback for Sept. 11, so who really cares? Naturally, the increasingly humorless Obama camp was none too pleased, but I guess they kind of had to act that way, just like Barack Obama (and all Democrats) have to act like they're against gay marriage.Monday, July 14, 2008
Floyd Abrams Must Be Proud
The New Yorker's "Politics of Fear" cover featuring the Obamas is sheer genius (I especially LOVE Michelle -- these next four years are gonna be great!). Sure, 80 percent of Americans are too stupid to "get it." But these are the same people who are too busy celebrating the death of Saddam Hussein as payback for Sept. 11, so who really cares? Naturally, the increasingly humorless Obama camp was none too pleased, but I guess they kind of had to act that way, just like Barack Obama (and all Democrats) have to act like they're against gay marriage.
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Amen, all the "backlash" over this cover is pretty ridiculous. But then again, if we were a country that understood when something is a joke we never would have elected Bush....twice.
Sorry, but this post makes no sense. The joke here is on the "New Yorker", which, for all its erudite pretentions, did not understand the literary medium it was evoking -- satire. This blogger made exactly the right points:
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/2008/07/satire-101-for-new-yorker.html
I have to disagree. The cover is tasteless, and that's no joke. It's not equally offensive to both Obama and McCain and the cover would perhaps be better served with some text to let the rest of us in the joke.
Tastelessness is covered by the First Amendment, my friend ...
The backlash is stupid. Its like you can say one bad thing about Obama without getting criticized. It similar the the treatment Bush got ove 9/11. You say anything against him and you would be in trouble.
Baby girl, I'm right with you and have added a link to you on my blog. Keep it up (you'll pardon the express.) Richard
The cover is beyond tasteless. It is offensive because it continues all the rumors. The "average" voter doesn't buy The New Yorker because it has way too much writing however they love pictures (compare Us with the New Yorker). Sometimes being in NYC creates a false sense of the country's mind.
I've seen much much worse political cartoons about Hillary and, even, Bush.
Chris: "You can't say one bad thing about Obama"...this is a (satirical, but badly miscalculated) piece of art showing him as bid Laden, burning the flag, with his wife as a Black Panther. That is not the same thing as saying, "Gee, I'm not sure I trust him not to raise taxes," or "I feel his FISA position is a mistake."
Fa: So the fuck what if it's covered by freedom of speech? That's a stupid argument. Nobody is arguing that this be banned and the editor tossed in jail. Free speech means people are free to tell you what you've just freely said is stupid. And what they just "said" with their cover is.
Kenneth: How can you possibly say the Obama camp is "humorless" to react negatively to this? Regardless of the context—because it will live well outside of the context—it's a very effective image that right-wingers and brain-dead "swing" voters will feed on for months.
I'm leaving the Democratic Party if Obama doesn't win. Not because he's a flawed candidate (he isn't), not because his campaign or the DNC will have fouled things up as has happened in the past (they haven't), but because if Democrats and sometimes Democrats are too stupid to see a good thing when they've got it, and if working-class people are too prejudiced by the "patriotism" bullshit the Bushies dreamed up to accept a politician far more honest and eager to turn our country around than the alternative, then I don't think the country deserves the ideals of the Democratic Party and I'll move on from caring.
Liberals are acting like this thing is won and it's time to now suss out why Obama isn't pure perfection. We all know he's not ideal—no candidate is—but why don't you wait until the bona fide progressive gets into office before tearing him down, opening the door for a complete sell-out to the right wing to pick the next several Supreme Court justices in-between his waging of a war against Iran?
mattrett: you just did a wonderful job of dispelling the notion that Obama and his Obamatrons are humorless. Bravo.
The sad thing is that the cover wasn't even satirizing Obama, but rather his opponents -- and yet his supporters are outraged! They're completely cult-like at this point.
Bob Barr 2008!
I am disappointed in that we would not get the opportunity to see the New Yorker's satirical cover of Hillary and Bill. I'm pretty sure that would have been even more far reaching... imagining Hillary caught by Bill with a male intern enjoying a hot dog, perhaps?
Or better yet, Hillary singing "I kissed a Girl and I liked it..." as Monica refreshes her Cherry chapstick?
BTW, Michelle looks hot carrying a semi-automatic...
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