New Yorker Cover: When the Joke’s Not on You July 15
A Tip O’ the Satirical Cap to Station Agent
Fill in the blank. A New Yorker magazine cover is to Barak Obama what a National Review cover is to (blank).
A geriatric John McCain in a wheelchair! Get it? Now THAT’S funny! But, what about those thousands of Nimrod-in-Chief
It’s also time for a slap up side the head.
Dueling Typewriters and Pens
The much-excoriated
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.
Hogswallop! If Obama is such a weak candidate a satirical cartoon will topple him, we’ve all got much bigger worries.
Satire’s a Good Thing
Many of the righteously indignant claim the cover only enforces the misperceptions and outright lies of the anti-Obaminator
Satire’s a good thing. It allows us to laugh when, by all rights, we should be crying. Righteous indignation has it’s place too. We should be righteously pissed at the things going on in our country and a good rant is a way to make that point strongly. And if you’re handy with a cartoonist’s pen or a keyboard, satire is a particularly delicious way to do it. I satirize my political opponents often and when I do there are plenty of pats on the back for administering a good, old-fashioned, ass-kicking screed against the dark forces of the right - comments that come from some of the same people now seeing satire in a different light.
This satire also reveals another dark truth. By wasting energy on a satire with the weight of a politicized Dilbert cartoon, the righteously indignant crowd puts themselves exactly where those being lampooned want them - firmly among the hypocritical for laughing at right-bashing satire while carping about vicious pens turned on their own main man.
Your attitudes only help those who want to see us fail and want to harm us. Why do you hate America and want the terrorists to win?
BTW, that last sentence was satire.
Get it?
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Fred Jul 15
The only problem that I have with it is that it completely misses the point. Obama supporters seem to be under the delusion that the only reason anyone would NOT support Obama is because they’re either racist or misinformed about Obama. This horribly ignorant (not to mention arrogant) view is presented in this attempt at satire which is why it fails so miserably. Satire is only good if it’s based on a healthy degree of truth.
The John McCain picture is a satire of The New Yorker’s complete failure at satire. No one supporting McCain is actually dumb enough to believe that the only reason a person wouldn’t vote for McCain is because he’s old. No, I’m afraid that level of self-delusion can only be found amongst Obama supporters.
CKA in Red State USA Jul 15
Obama and those who support him are not just deluded, but completley humorless as well as arrogant and narrow-minded.
They must live in the constructed fantasy that anyone who doesn’t vote for or support him is racist (1) because their idol saith so; and (2) because they lack the cognition to see that this charlatan has absolutely no qualifications for public office, save apparenlty Illinois, if even there.
Malloy Jul 15
The only reason that this Mr. & Mrs. Obama satire DOES have impact — and may very likely spread — is because like all good satire, or good humor for that matter, there’s more than a germ of truth in it. Otherwise, the satire would utterly roll off the Obamoids’ backs, having no impact.
Dusty Jul 16
Have I told you lately that I love you Poobie???
Great post m’dear!! Bless you dear man..a voice of reason in an insane world.
Dusty’s last blog post..Satire and all that screeching I heard today..
Deb Jul 16
I love political cartoons and this one just wasn’t funny. I’m not an Obama supporter by any stretch of the imagination, but I found it offensive and humorless. I think it was because it was over the top, in this case less would have been more.
In the end it’s just a cartoon and it really doesn’t deserve all the hoopla while our country is dismantled before our very eyes.
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