Satire - “a playfully critical distortion of the familiar” (Leonard Feinberg, Introduction To Satire)

What the artist was attempting to distort (via exaggeration) was the familiar way in which the mainstream media depicts the Obamas as anti-American whenever the opportunity presents itself, thus criticizing the media itself.

The problem is…the media is not represented in the picture! So readers are left with the impression that this is the image of the Obamas that the New Yorker endorses.

A formidable attempt at satire that unfortunately misses its mark entirely. The editors of the New Yorker should have known better.

But yes, PL, this issue will sell like hotcakes.

-Put

Re: 1. Put

well, there ya go.

I’m for Obama, but I think this is one time that he should shut the f*ck up. His whining only drew more attention to an otherwise transitory media eventlet.

Meanwhile, the New Yorker needs to balance things with, say, a cartoon of McCain chasing a giant-fake-t*tted Cindy around the pool. His t-shirt reads: Viva Viagra!

Re: 3. whiskeydent

I thought McCain chased her around the buffet table.

Re: 4. lush

That would eliminate the need for a cheesy bikini. Work with me.

Re: 5. whiskeydent

And it could be set in a Luby’s….

Re: 6. lush

Okay, but they have to have walkers and those big black sunglasses.

Re: 7. whiskeydent

….and visible Depends pantylines.

I’m pretty sure this was in a Ziggy comic first.

/Quick Eileen, to my archives!

//It’s a Seinfeld reference…

Re: 8. lush

And “Help! I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up” beepers.

Re: 9. whiskeydent

And YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN sandwich boards.

Publishers of both the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times resigned today. Cuts are coming. You might want to start charging people to post comments at your blog, PL.

Re: 11. Perry’s Mollycoddler

Or paying us.

Re: 12. Perry’s Mollycoddler

You owe me 25 cents.

Re: 1. Put

This isn’t satire. This is racism.

There’s no difference. Just ask Kinky Friedman.

/WHAT?!
//It’s a great cover.
///For those who get satire.

Re: 15. double tonic

I am never speaking at JCAA again.

It’s satire because it’s a super-elitist, intellectually-masturbatory East Coast rag. Since Obama is an intellectual elitist, it’s OK.

You know, it’s like if Gourmet magazine did a controversial cover on Clinton.

(ducks for cover)

Re: 14. Pink Lady

got 2 bits worth, anyway……

agreed that Obama is a big crybaby. He could have really had some fun and rallied some crackers with a bit of (2 bits of?) self depreciating humor.

Ann Richards would have known what to do.

/W is still reading the Highlights mag from the Doctors office……

Chicks with AK-47s are hot.

Re: 3. whiskeydent

Oh Dear God….that John/Cindy Viva Viagra imagery….if I don’t get it out of my mind I will wake up screaming every night until I die *ewwwww*

Here’s the deal. I get it. You get it. Obama gets it. Who doesn’t get it are the folks who actually believe Barack is a muslim and Michelle is militant & unpatriotic. For those souls, this fuels, not dispells, their belief. I see it as making fun of the wing-nuts’ perceptions, but to the wing-nuts, this is giving their perceptions credibility.

Re: 21. Cynic

Come on. Like the wing-nuts subscribe to The New Yorker.

Re: 1. Put

oh the MEDIA depicts him as anti-American? Not his opponents, or his critics, right? I just want to make sure I get this straight. Newspaper and TV reporters across the country are the ones who have been peddling that the lack of the flag lapel pin and Michelle Obama’s comments are proof that they’re “anti-american” - not the people who got all up in arms on the talk shows and who wrote letters to the editor and did their own blog posts, etc.

Seriously? Or is it simply the fact that we REPORTED IT AT ALL that invites all the blame for Michelle and Obama being “depicted” as Anti-American.

Syntax lesson: The NYer “depicted” them as Anti-American and Muslim to make a specific point. By contrast, the mainstream media “covered” the events that lead their critics to say they’re Anti-American.

Big difference.

Re: 23. Credentials

p.s. for the record? This is the same media that constantly gets bashed for allegedly giving the Obamas a free ride in the press.

So, which is it??? Can’t have it both ways, guys.

Re: 24. Credentials

Are you yet another victim of the mental recession? Why do you hate America?

Re: 25. whiskeydent

Not a victim yet, but getting closer all the time.

And, yeah. I’m a member of the media. Apparently I’m *paid* to hate America.

Or, am I paid to hate Republicans? Or, is it, I’m paid to hate Democrats?? Or am I paid to hate just the Obamas, or am I paid to hate Bush, or am I paid to hate Ron Paul, or am I paid to keep a woman out of the White House … or ?

OH, I’M SO CONFUSED. Someone please educate me. What’s my agenda again??

/NURSE!?!?^&*

Re: 26. Credentials

Come on. We all know you’re unpaid.

I like the cover — it’s so over the top that any person with half a brain would recognize it for what it is, ridiculing those who have made BHO out to be OBL’s trojan horse.

Problem is, of course, that a substantial number of Americans display the virtues of (or employ) less than half a brain.

Re: 26. Credentials

It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.

It’s not your fault.

Re: 28. slickshusez

I cannot believe I agree with you.

/Going to shower now.

Re: 29 Phillip

Nicely done.

I take it we’ve seen “Good Will Hunting” more than once?

Re: 23. Credentials

The media has a choice in what they report on.

There’s a lot to choose from.

And they choose crap, again and again.

Re: 31. Advocate for the Devil

Not all of us.

Re: 32. Credentials

but far yoo many, and way too often.

BTW