In NY no less!
The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife. An American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it’s satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
I don’t know. It might be a bit outré for him but it seems to capture her quite well.
Well, tough darts and get over it.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, SatireJuly 13, 2008 at 6:21 pm | Trackback
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If only the New Yorker were MORE tasteless and offensive! Even Punch, the model for this kind of mag, is limp and PC compared to its format only ten years ago. It’s the job of all citizens, everywhere, literati and day workers, to be as offensive and nasty as possible about those who would rule us. It’s the only thing that keeps them in line…outright mockery for the bullshit and pretense, and for the boiling megalomania in ALL of them. When we start respecting and honoring any of them, of either party, for asssumed respectability, we’re in serious trouble.
…on second thought, not Punch, but Britain’s National Standard.
…on third thought, The Spectator.
Try MAD Magazine.
When Gaines ran MAD in the ’50’s and ’60’s, he rogered all the balloons. The National Lampoon did for a while especially when O’Rourke wrote for them in the early ’70’s.
After that most of the good rags dropped off the racks or became inoffensive. That is death to any publication.
Obama insists that talking with the opponent is most important but refuses to define his liberal camp out of fear of politically alienating the voters he needs just as McCain politically shies away from his conservative camp. Should we extrapolate from here to the international scene a year or two from now?
A good many Americans already know the definition of a Liberal and if he were an honest man he’d affirm and defend it with his words rather than disassociate from it.
But as contrivance would have it he and McCain are politically Ike and Mike, aren’t they?
Play with me here…Hypothetically, if there were no middle-ground independents would either one of these candidates have the courage to simply say it…the real world definition of his solutions to the current events as he sees it and as they exist right here and right now? Is it possible they don’t hear the hue and cry for clarity? I’m sick of the whining, the schmoozing, the patronizing, the Protean complexes and their refusals to be man enough to find enough courage to just say the words.
I want to hear McCain say “Beyond our control, times have changed. In order to adapt we must drill for American oil immediately, but also work on other long term solutions.”
I want to hear strong defense of private business as the source of jobs by which decent people can earn decent paychecks…..and healthcare independently of public money. I want a 100% fat-free government and ballot questions to starve the beasts. I want a commitment to the restoration of and respect for the common sense of the non-powerful and I want the trash taken out of the buildings from where it presently hides until it can slither out in the eleventh hour.
They can take their grubby hands and perversions off our kids. I want them out of our bedrooms, schools, courts, jobs, food and trash cans.
Just spare us the political posturing.
I would consider this leadership. Just be man enough to say it! In the meantime, we’ll delight in cathartic satire.