Satire and all that screeching I heard Tuesday…
July 16, 2008 by Dusty
The wonderful and talented Omnipotent Poobah has posted a wonderful response to all the folks going ape-shit over the New Yorker cover with Barack and Michelle Obama. He links to a blog called Ice Station Tango, who has the following cartoon by David Horsey up:
David Horsey cartoon from the Seattle P.I.
You folks that have your friggin panties in a wad need to lighten the hell up. Its not the end of the friggin world..and frankly..anyone that still believes that Obama is a damn Muslim wouldn’t vote for him if he was the last candidate on Planet Earth for the job of El Presidente of the United States. Seriously..they wouldn’t.
I don’t give a shit if McCain said it was wrong and Obama said it as well. Its there for one reason..to sell magazines and get tongues wagging! Ok, that’s two reasons….
And it did just that. All day Tuesday I saw post after post about how horrible and despicable the cover was..the left and all the Obamanistas were just coming un-fucking glued over it.
All you folks did was hype it even more. You realize that don’t you?
Freedom of Speech and freedom of the Press..two things all progressives believe in, unless of course their candidate is the butt of the joke..then all bets are off evidently.
Another thing it might have done…draw attention to all the bullshit being spread around these here internets and of course Fox Noise, about Obama and his wife and how absolutely ridiculous it all is. Because it actually got people talking about the bullshit..Did you once ever think of that angle?
Probably not..you were too fucking busy yelling and canceling your subscriptions to the New Yorker. Christ I hate this election..I really fucking do. If I don’t have a fucking stroke before November it will be a damn miracle.
Every single progressive/lefty that I know will chuckle and laugh at all the photoshops of Bush, Cheney, McCain and every other damn neocon we all hate with a passion. So wtf is so different about the New Yorker cover? Sure, its on the front of a major magazine..but its the same damn thing. A blurb of Poobies post:
The much-excoriated New Yorker cover is no more over the top than a thousand other satirical cartoons produced by the left and right. Satire, especially political satire, always goes for the gut. By its nature, it’s a knife fight of dueling typewriters and cartoonists’ pens. It’s often over the top and vicious and it’s supposed to be. If it wasn’t, it would be a wonkish, stuffy policy discussion - boring as hell and not nearly as stress-relieving as a good belly laugh.Political cartoons - especially good ones - often reveal a truth. In this case, a truth about those who cry over spilt cartoonists’ ink with claims the cartoon will bring about a sure victory for Yertle the Turtle McCain and the simultaneous collapse of Western civilization.
Now get out there and find something to really bitch about ok?
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i read a blog post about the editors of the new yorker where the author alluded to the insulation that manhattan can be- much like the the beltway bubble. secluded from the real america and surrounded by mostly other ‘blue’ folks, things look differently in nyc. what they were going for- and what they got- two very different things. people have every right to cancel their subscriptions- or not buy the magazine. it’s capitalism- that standard by which america holds itself dear. i don’t believe censorship is the way to go- but perhaps they will not be as irresponsible in choosing their covers next time. all they have done- besides drum up business by stirring up a hornet’s nest- is perpetuate the falsehoods they sought to blow up through ridiculousness. you have to know your audience- and they obviously didn’t. i get satire. i also think more than your average american. i actually know what it is- and although they generally sell to folks who consider themselves sophisticated- the new yorker folks obviously pegged them wrong.
somehow, i doubt they will do a story on mccain. so, while i agree with you about people believing him muslim already won’t vote, it still was a visual that will cost him votes from more who won’t bother to crack the cover. and it matters not to me anyway because i am abstaining from voting.
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fyi- that is a great pic- too bad the national review won’t use it
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Betmo, I think all the folks that are freaking out over this cover are making too much of it. I said it all in my post really, the cover provoked discussion, and thats a good thing.
Every news outlet has weighed in on this and its probably a ‘water cooler’ convo at every job in America right now. That can’t be a bad thing in my opinion.
And besides..if we can lampoon and/or satirize Bush, Cheneny et.al, we should be able to stand a little heat in that department too.
Paybacks are a bitch.
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How come nobody mentions Michelle’s Angela Davis fro?
lol..I think it’s quite sporty Robb! How about you?
Dusty:
Amen, Sister! There are always going to be clueless fools who believe the bogus crap that is put out there about any well known person, and it won’t be because of a New Yorker cover, but because of their relative gullibility and intellectual laziness. This New Yorker brouhaha is much ado about nothing. It is obvious where the New Yorker stands in terms of their political leanings and there was no malice behind the cover.
The cover is simply a satire about all the crap floated by distorted ideologues such as the low lifes given a bully pulpit on Fox News.
Chill, folks, chill…
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