The New Yorker and the Hubris of Arrogance

Sorry, but it’s hard for me to feel pity for Obama regarding this cover, when Hillary was the victim of continual and unending satire, misogyny and hate by all segments of the media… None of these pundits, anchorpeople, party leaders, et all who are decrying the New Yorker today ever once came to the defense of Hillary Clinton. I can name a hundred examples of despicable satire directed at her.

I don’t see any problem with the cover. Political satire can get rough. Can’t take the heat…get out of the kitchen.

Not scientific but they have been right quiet often.
AOL straw poll, McCain-74% Obama-26%

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/07/14/aol-straw-poll-july-14-21/

I think the analogy fails–because Hitler’s atrocities against the Jews were real, while the Right’s fantasies about Obama are not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Ro3TATqG8

The problem is, the cover was not one of Hitler tossing Jews into ovens. It is not even close and to suggest it is, is an insult. Since when have Barack and Michelle Obama become revered saints for whom any criticism is blasphemy?

The worship of these two has gone too far and is much too dangerous.

This is Chickens comin home to roost
This is Karma
This is cosmic destiny
This is what goes around, comes around
This is what you sow, so shall ye reap.
This is the other shoe dropping
This is beginning of the end

BO and MO protest a little too much here.

If you need to explain the humor, it ain’t no joke.
Yhe New Yorker has never been a well of giggles.

I don’t see a problem with it either. You’d think the O’s had never looked at a political cartoon before.

And yes, I saw the AOL poll. It’s not scientific but as compared to last week’s poll which was something like 64% McCain and 36% Obama, that’s a big change.

You are absolutely right Karen.

If the humor is not obvious, maybe there is something to it: for example, obama in that garb (he did used to wear it), and ayers surely did stomp on the flag. and the hand thing the two of them do is real too.

how about the article inside on how obama is a typical chicago politician?

My brother and I just completed a video about this subject, the BULLSH*T elitist attitude of the New Yorker’s editor and the MSM in general. They think they have to ‘educate’ we unclean slobs because they know and we don’t.

Utter BS. These hacks often don’t know and if they do know, they hide the truth. Ask Kenneth Lamb, or many others.

Obama is taking major damage right now, the MSM knows it, and they are trying to cover for him on it. Hence the conducting of Newsweek polls to try to see how large the wound is.

Unfortunately for the MSM and the rest of the Obama Posse, they are so inept that their efforts are destroying their golden calf.

What this is going to do is to reinforce the ‘arrugula,’ elitist image of Obama and those who support him. And that is death for Obama’s chances.

One of the most important aspects of the New Yorker article was the cynical Obama gerrymandering of his district to include the upper crust whites. He IS the candidate of the latte liberals. The more people know he is the choice of the eggheads, the faster he loses.

He is on his way to being blown out in November. Perfect. New ABC poll, who would be good Commander in Chief:

72% say Mac would be
48% say BHO would be

Kerry was way up in the polls now. BHO is not. We all remember what happened to Kerry. Obama is next in line. He is presently being sized-up for his electoral body bag.

Obama accused Bill Clinton of being a racist Come on in The water fine good buddy!

Yes, I agree.
Where was the media, the press, the DNC, the democratic party when the rampant sexism of the campaign barged through the line of decency and into purely misogynistic insults?

When Mack took ‘satire’ too far Odrama reluctantly called him on it then added, “Hey, I was just messin’ with you.”

New Yorker to Odrama: We were just messing with you.

Get Over It!
:EVIL:

Come on in The water fine good buddy!

I have been checking this for over 1 month…MAC ALWAYS is winning by a BLOWOUT!

The cover fails as humor because there’s enough truth in the picture ( and one only needs a little) to ruin it for a stat ire . It missed the laugh and landed on GAFFE

oops

If the New Yorkers’ story is true and they were trying to ridicule the bible clingy bitter people who holds these views, they now have to include Obama into the rube column , since he didn’t get the joke either.

AND if it was of cover of Hillary, it would be met with a yawn.

Odrama

Perfect.

The New Yorker cover is a tasteless piece of work. And it gives anyone interested in fair play the opportunity to ask why there wasn’t an equal burst of outrage against the numerous examples of equally tasteless magazine covers, toys, ads, etc., directed against Senator Clinton throughout the primaries.

I would be more sympathetic towards the Obamas now if earlier they had displayed some outrage on behalf of Senator Clinton, instead of the steadfast silence that they maintained. I guess this is my way of saying, “what goes around, comes around”.

peaking of Michael Richards, remember the Seinfeld episode where Elaine takes the cartoon around asking people, why is this funny? and no one can answer it?

LOL, prescient sketch

WTF, this is political satire. I’ve seen worse on Bush, Clinton, and others. Is Obama’s skin that thin or did this thing hit too close to home for their liking? It sounds like the Dutch controversy. Can’t say anything about or make satire about Obama. Obama’s always the victim it seems.

of course, that gets no play. Poor BO and Michelle…again, the victims of something. Give me a break. Like Karen said, there must be at least 100 examples of Hillary getting it even rougher. I remember a cartoon drawing of Hillary with the statement “Hillary’s secret weapon” and it has her skirt blown up in the air showing a huge p*nis budge through her underwear. Where was the outrage then? Suck it up BO, and stop your whining already.

Or, “Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke!”

Frankly my dear I don’t give it dam…

I’m just confused. Why are they in the Oval Office? Are they visiting President McCain?

Obama’s chickens……are coming home…… to rooost.

I think the cover is brilliant.

“None of these pundits, anchorpeople, party leaders, et all who are decrying the New Yorker today ever once came to the defense of Hillary Clinton.”

Actually, Karen, you’re wrong. Penn Jillette’s rancid “White Bitch Month” joke aimed at Sen. Clinton was roundly condemned by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC.

Poor widdle barry and michelle. Get over it!! He didn’t mind Bernie Mac making jokes at other peoples expense. I didn’t hear any condemnation when they did the recent Hillary cover from him or anyone else in the media. Again, in his own words, get over it!

I’m just confused. Why are they in the Oval Office? Are they visiting President McCain?

Obama’s chickens……are coming home…… to rooost.

Americans have known about Obama forever now. He has appeared in nearly all 50 states. He saturates media coverage. Those who still believe Obama is a Muslim or was born in another country have heard from himself and countless others that he is not.

>>> Obama’s always the victim it seems.

Well, he and Winnie Mandela Sasquatch Michelle take turns being THE Victim.

Otherwise, I’d say that you have Advance Knowledge of the main plank of the Democratic Party’s platform for 2008…

Never heard so much whining….it’s a magazine cover…it’s brilliant….it has a bit of truth to it…i guess the truth hurts. poor bawack.

Is the poster size version available yet?

These would make wonderful placards for the convention!

I also do not pity Obama. He intentionally benefited from the satire against Clinton. I never saw Obama, “the Uniter”, arise to his “exalted pulpit” and repudiate or denounce one sexist remark against Sen. Clinton.

I have NO anger, or pity for the Obama’s whatsoever. They have some awful heavy baggage, and a train load of people all ready thrown under their bus, including the Clintons. What comes around, goes around.

I am going to frame my copy.

Why does Obama refuse to face McCain in unscripted unrehearsed town hall meetings? He has been challenged repeatedly. Enough with the stupid pompous and preachy speeches.

The cover was brilliant and truthful. If Obama hadn’t written about his muslim dreams from his father and Michelle hadn’t posed herself as the angry black woman that believes black theology, what would the cover have been then?

The Obama camp needs to own up to their own complicity in this whole matter.

If Obama were a different kind of person this wouldn’t have been the cover!

All the Obama whining is just another example of how Obama should never get the nomination, let alone speak at the Brandenburg Gate, or live in the White House.

What a effing phony whiner and liar. He is sickening at this point.

I agree. I have no sympathy for bo or mo, especially after all that was said, written and drawn to denegrate hillary. I also think the cartoon speaks very very accurately on how millions of people view the obamas. I don’t think all their fears are unfounded, in fact, I think some of their concerns are quite valid.

Not quite the same level of outrage, and notice the comments from those lovable scamps at the Huff Po.

After Randi Rhodes called Sen. Clinton a f***ing whore at an Obama fundraiser and Bernie Mac joked about women being ‘ho’s” there isn’t much room for high ground among the Obama campaign people.

You mean 28%.

that’s what I’m saying…the cartoon speaks the truth.

To Barky and Michelle Obama: Get over your effing selves!!

I agree. In fact, MeMeMechelle looks GOOD in that drawing. Had to be a cartoon to get her hips to be that tiny. They could have had her packin a lot of junk in her trunk. That would have been closer to reality.

i hope you’re right.

I’m trying to resize one to make an Iron-On for a tee shirt…

WOW! Can I get that cover in a poster size? Mt only problem with it is they should have had Ayers dancing on the flag!

i couldn’t agree more.

I made a big mistake tonight. Came home, turned on the tube and Rachel Madcow was filling in for Keith O. Talk about in the tank for Obama! I think she even beats Keith. I know it is “opinion” journalism, but it was truly overwhelming.

>>> He has appeared in nearly all 50 states.

That’s 57 states…

I love both your suggestions…I definitely want this magazine cover blow up for a poster.

Aw, c’mon, Barry, The New Yorker’s just messin’ with ya, man!

Truth hurts …..is this satire too close for comfort? Why else would they be all up in arms. maybe because people feel this way about them to begin with and they are trying so hard to convince people we are CRAZY for thinking that Barack is not a muslim and Michelle is not a radical racist and that they don’t have best friends that are terrorists….

When I picture the White House… this is what I see ….

So how is Barack going to benefit from this?

How can we help take off the heat on the New Yorker

This is nonsense. It is not tasteless. It does not take aim at the Obamas; it skewers the rabid tin-foil-hat wearers who make outrageous claims about the Obamas.

And before you jump all over me, let me tell you that I am not voting for Senator Obama because I see him as nothing but a pandering opportunist and the new representative of the patriarchy (and the oligarchy).

There are real, legitimate reasons not to support Barack Obama’s candidacy and not to like him and his wife. But anyone who sees any “truth” in this is nuts — and anyone who can’t see that this is satirizing the nutjobs who genuinely smear the guy — is either willfully misreading this cartoon or too literal (and merely functionally literate).

Woe to our country when the majority of the electorate — left, right, and center — isn’t quick enough to see this for the brilliant satire (of the nutjobs) that it is.

Welcome to the dumbing down of America. Next stop: outright censorship.

And — yes — such a development was brought to you by both extremes of the poolitical spectrum, the ultra-PC leftists who would trample on your free speech because they don’t like what you say, and the ultra-conservative rightists who would trample on your free speech because they don’t like what you say.

Bonus points to the right for Contract on America, the Patriot Act, and No Child Left Behind…but don’t believe for a minute that the folks on the other side of the aisle weren’t complicit.

Sarcasm is wasted on the stupid…
but the rest of us enjoyed the hell out of it!!!
Just kidding with you man…
oh wait, there were no words, JUST PICTURES…and bawak always works with JUST WORDS.
Love the arugala on the mantle!

I love the cover. Lou Dobbs put it into perspective by presenting other past New Yorker such covers on Bush and Cheney, Kerry, Hillary and others. All were in the same vein, but without the ensuing clamors.

These are not the kinds of works that make you laugh out loud. Smile maybe.

Now this will make you laugh out loud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQX7Awjui40&feature=related

(I never realized there was an actual photograph of Grandma under the bus.)

Was just thinking that, hit pagedown, and there you were I love that one. “Cartoons are like gossamer, and one doesn’t dissect gossamer.”

No actually he is correct. People were polled and 72% of the people said McCain would make a good commander-in-chief and 48% said Obama would make a good commander-in-chief. You can take 100 people and ask them them the same question and one person could think McCain would and he/she could also think Obama would make a good commander-in-chief. I heard the same numbers as Paul on the way home on right wing radio.

I’m with you, well said.

If there was a condemnation, then it was one moment of condemnation, and one thousand moments of deafening silence in re the horrid treatment that Senator Clinton received.

There was no end to the outrageous b.s. we all had to witness directed at Hillary throughout this campaign. Pictures of her being tied to train tracks. That awful picture/drawing of her in the Village Voice. Never mind all the disgusting misogynist comments: “Someone needs to take her out behind the barn.”

The list is endless. I could absolutely care less about Senator Obama’s reaction to this. He has truly advantaged himself at every turn by the media, his surrogates, his supporters, and even his own disrespectful and foul treatment of her.

Dear Idiots,

We here at the New Yorker recently published an extremely clever magazine cover making an oh- so –subtle and courageous Jab at all those right leaning Jesus crispies in flyover country that accuse our beloved Barak Obama as being a muslim, and Michelle Obama as a 70s blaxploitation cinema star. Apparently this was a little too brilliant, even for some individuals on our side of the political spectrum. I mean what’s not to get? – Barack in a turban..Ha ha ha! Michelle looking like a caricature of a 24 year old Pam Grier – LOL!!! Come on! We are obviously poking fun at all the racist Mcsamebushitlerburtindarthcheneyrovesatan neo-con dolts who dare think this about our sweet prince, Obama (peace be upon him).

Seriously, I can understand non-Harvard educated inbreeds that are too busy handling snakes at bible camp to really get our nuanced approach to satire, but we’re even catching shit from the New York Times, Democratic Underground, and NPR. That’s National Public Radio for God’s sake! These aren’t some conservative bloviating fat asses with a microphone eating oxycontin like an inverted pez dispenser! For fucks sake, all we are left with is that tranny Amy Goodman from Pacifica radio to defend us. Yeah, thanks for nothing. Maybe Americans would be smarter if instead of bitterly clinging to guns and religion, as brilliantly stated by Barack Obama, they could be more like us -bitterly clinging to fine cheeses and Noam Chomsky essays.

It’s art, damn it! Ironic art – an artistic ironic comic statement in ironic cartoon art-like form made for the same three people who think Doonsebury and Boondocks are poignant and funny at the same time. If you don’t get it – you don’t get art. We at the New Yorker recognize great art such as “Feces on white canvas” currently on display at the MOMA, not some middle America Norman Rockwell bullshit. Sheesh! We’re speaking truth to power against the goose stepping zombies who get their information from the likes of littlegreenfootballs.com and Faux News (ha ha ha! That’s our clever way of referring to Fox News. Get it?… Faux News! Ho ho!) Mchimpbushelburten Nazis.

It’s time we on the left unite and regain our elitist common ground. Let’s put this behind us and get back to what’s important, like bravely mocking the nascar Christ-o-fascists and being condescending to military enlistees who were so dim they didn’t use their trust funds to attend journalism school like us true patriots (and they say WE’RE elitist and out of touch, ha!). We sincerely hope you will continue to subscribe to our publication so we can remain being journalists and not be required to get real jobs. Cheers!

Sincerely,

Editor in Chief

New Yorker Magazine.

Jesus Christ! It’s a friggin’ cover on a magazine! Lighten up already!

Satire is supposed to be directed at those whose opinions, attitudes, etc. one seeks to ridicule. If the New Yorkers’ purpose was to ridicule the right wing, the cover should have featured right wing characters, rather than the “victims” of so-called right wing claims.

The more important point, to me, is that if Obama is so fragile that ridicule and name calling throws him off his game, how will he hold up against foreign leaders (or the Republicans, for that matter) who will push his buttons in negotiations? “It’s not fair” is not much of a counter for dictators or states who sponsor terrorism. Obama should have laughed. That would have shown some strength.

Thanks, YoNo.

I should have made it clearer, that it wasn’t a head-to-head poll. Which, of course, is even worse news for BHO. No one is going to take him heads-up over Mac for Commander in Chief. Just ask Wes “I’m reaching like a Mo Fo on this” Clark after his remarks recently.

But without even a head to head, BHO doesn’t get a majority.

Ouch.

No pity here. You get what you give and Obama is a horse’s patoot.

Rachel can make an excuse for anything Obama does and defends the indefenseable, looks real foolish doing it as well.

I want your tee shirt.

yeah – and as I keep wondering:

are these whining Obots the same ones whining about O’s FISA reversal?

free speech (alright free cartooning rights) v. wiretapping abuse?

hmmm. can’t whine about both!

Where’s Prof (alright lecturer, whatever) Constitutional Law when we need him?

Yes, and if he gets in the WH we’ll have to spend another term with a president who thinks he’s God and can’t be criticized.

I don’t think the cover is a gaffe at all.

It is exposing stereotypes and “myths”.

The real joke to me about it is, watching the spinning heads decry the cover and have a meaningful dialouge about the articles pertaining to the cover.

I wonder what was going through the artists’ head as the cover headed the press.

I did however look at the cartoons of 1928 Germany to see if any cartoons existed that might be similar in tone.

what ever can sharpen the focus of the electorates mind will do when it comes to BO.

In lieu of the transparent facts people will have preconcieved “notions”.

Seems like the folks over at The New Yorker didn’t waste any time on being PC.

I still don’t get what OBL was doing in the frame….even in satire; that is fractured.

Oh cry me a river!

Somewhere in this great nation, somebody is cracking nuts on a Hillary nutcracker and that’s just one example of the shit she had to and still has to deal with.

Fuck’em if they can’t take a joke.

If they think they can Odrama their way to the White House they have another think coming.

Where’s your real Birth Certificate?

What was that trip to Pakistan & India about in college?

Why can’t we see your college transcripts? Your medical records?

Why’d you flip on FISA?

Why don’t you have a paper trail from your State Senate days?

Where in the fuck is your white grandmother and why can’t she give us a measly sound bite?

I have more questions but I’ll hold at these. If McCain can produce his Birth Certificate, why does Barky think he should be exempt?

I could give less than a flying fuck about the New Yorker cover. But Barack, buy a clue. If you thought that you were going to get through the entire campaighn without one carciature of you in Muslim garb you are crazy.

What was that about the whining coming from Hillary supporters?

How does it feel?

How about some cheese with that whine?

From HillaryClintonForum dot net:

(July 14, 2008):”Has Barack Obama Peaked Too Soon?” (US News & World Report)

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/200…-too-soon.html

There are a lot of people seeing the same thing here. BaJoke should be ROLLING McCain right now, and he’s not. And he’s not distancing himself in fundraising, either.

He is in big, big trouble. And people hardly know him yet. The more New Yorker articles that come out showing him exploiting racial, class gerrymandering for his own benefit, the faster the halo is scrapped.

This guy is nothing, and he’s coming apart. Let’s hope the superdelegates are paying close attention and that The Denver Group and others get the job done (just contributed $20.08 to them the other day). We have one last chance to rid ourselves of this Rezko-infested, quid quo pro radical Wright disciple before we become the GOP’s canon fodder in November. No one can say they weren’t warned.

live by the progressive/liberal/hip word, die by the progressive/liberal/hip cartoon!

it’s like Act II of the blogo-battle over FISA….

the hubris and pathos here are mythic, no?

a Greek trajedy?
a Shakesperean play?

Bad link. Here is the correct one:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2008/7/14/has-barack-obama-peaked-too-soon.html

I thought the Ayer’s reference was the burning flag in the fireplace myself… but perhaps I’m too eruditic in my analysis.

B

I’m going out to buy the magazine.

I NEVER buy that rag.

How’s that for support?

Amen.

That’s right. He’s black so you can’t criticize him.

I don’t give a rats ass about whether this was unfair to the Obamarhoids or not. They BOTH deserve this and MORE…after what they did to Hillary and Bill.

I LIKE the cover and I’m thrilled to death it pissed off the BO cultists.

Karma’s a Bitch, isn’t it?

I think it’s funny that a magazine that’s been rabidly pro-Obama finds itself in this situation. Serves them right.

Before any of you think about subscribing to “support” them (I’ve seen several comments like that today and last night), take a look at their coverage over the spring and summer. Just a couple of issues ago, they were STILL beating up on Clinton, who had dropped out of the race.

The New Yorker has been part of the problem, and I’m sitting back and laughing as their own “cuteness” bites them on the butt.

I care about their feelings as they would care about my feelings.

Please.

Politcal cartoons have always be off color and rough. Perhaps I am too bitter, but who cares? They have to hire help to clean their 6 bathrooms. That is the huge tragedy as good help is hard to find.

I said the exact same thing earlier today. Where was the outrage then? Poor Bawack. Everyone rushes to defend and protect baby Bawack. Boo hoo. After they were behind the Clinton smears, it’s laughable that they are so offended by these awful tactics! What you sow…

Also, the hysteria around this is in itself extremely elitist. How many working class folks in PA give a damn about the New Yorker?

The reason why Hobama and company are upset is because people will wonder about his turbin – real, flag burning – Ayers, militant Michelle – “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of America”, sneaky fish-eye smirk on Hobama – Hobama period.

Satire is only funny WHEN it touches upon truth. This ‘cartoon’ nailed it.

Its up to Hobama to start ‘splainin.

Help “The New Yorker”?? Purchase a subscription online to the magazine and then write a letter to the editor and tell him you subscribed because of the outstanding July 21 cover!! The editor does indeed need our support since numbers count–and, it’s money well spent.

I have already subscribed and written a letter. I encourage everyone else to do so as well.

Reading Larry’s “Africa” piece, I just realized what some may have missed behind the New Yorker satirical cover.

Several weeks back, a Fox News anchor whom I just love, and therefore will not name, joked on air about what that little knuckle jab between the Obamas might really mean. The anchor gave three possibilities on air, and one of them was: terrorist jab? Naturally, some were up in arms.

There actually ended up being temporary consequences, now resolved, from the incident.

Leave Barry alooooooooooon!

Obama and his drones think they have the right to criticize Hillary, McCain and everyone else but that they should not be the subject of ridicule. Typical mindset of authoritarian dictator types like fascists and communists.

That’s why the cartoon failed, because the cartoonist was trying to make the opposite point. He was trying to make the point that you are ridiculous.

“I remember a cartoon drawing of Hillary with the statement “Hillary’s secret weapon” and it has her skirt blown up in the air showing a huge p*nis budge through her underwear.”

What the hell!!!?? Are you serious??

And those same bastards ar crying about the New Yorker cartoon??

We sure didn’t see ‘White Bitch Month” all over the net and TV, did we now? Some outrage.

Not only do I have no sympathy, I enjoyed it. Really I thought it was just about right.

I think it’s incredibly insulting to holocaust survivors…who were innocent victims of evil and madness, to equate that cover with Hitler and the ovens.
Obama has worn that get up at least once, proudly, and his close friend is a terrorist who stomped on our flag, proudly, and Michelle does fist bump, proudly, and most important, he’s given tens of thousands of dollars to an American hating, Hamas loving “church” when he’s otherwise been cheap with his charitable donations.
So, this is no different from what Hillary experienced on a weekly basis, it’s just that it’s happened to the anointed one.
And it is a flattering cartoon of Michelle.

That’s another thing. He wants to run in the big league but he wants to stifle the heat. Get out of the kitchen if you can’t take it, wimp.

I’m surprised it’s even that high (48%). Based on WHAT?! This guy has ZERO experience with the military–an extremely complex and sophisticated branch of the government, and minimal knowledge of foreign policy. I still can’t believe anyone takes him seriously as a presidential candidate.

A email from Barak which went to junk mail..looking for money if the cover of the New Yorker was satire, then so is this.

….
I hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to make your voice heard in the political process.

Barack

Hey BO don’t thank me yet, you have not lost. Win without me.

The reason why this cover is a disaster for both the New Yorker and Obama is because it gives a visual to what 50% of the country has already been thinking.
For some people they just couldn’t put their finger on it as to why they felt uncomfortable about Obama.
The New Yorker cover is like a road map to understanding all the deep rooted negatives that have been accumulating in their collective minds.

For some this is the tipping point to vote against Obama.
For others such as myself there are greater issues that make Obama unfit to be Commander and Chief.

Comparing this cover to Hitler is far fetched and rediculous. Guess it was alright when KO blasted a few weeks ago that Clinton was using the Rob Kennedy timing statements as a Clinton order to assassinate Obama falls more inline with the Hitler comparrison than one of the likes of the cover by the New Yorker!

This cover opens avenues of discussion that should have been opened months ago about Obama!

Every depiction on the cover does raise questions, even the bin Laden picture, especially today when 9 brave troops were killed in Afganistan by the Taliban, thanks to an insurgence that has been forcasted for months to occur, yet Obama did nothing on his commitee for NATO, thus is Obama’s inaction of the commitee Obama’s support of bin Laden? After all, Obama can travel everywhere to promote himself, yet can’t hold any hearings or resign to allow someone else to do the job for the troops in Afganistan!

Obama has compulsively lied his entire political career, and he feels he doesn’t need to answer to the people is bullshit! New Yorker, bring on more covers and expose this fraud of a politician completely!

Actually some of the Right’s “fantasies” are real.

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=att-portal&p=Clinton

Clinton 2012

*snicker*

Yep, the cartoon accurately portrayed everything the MSM has refused to investigate.

I love the New Yorker’s dog and cat jokes. Their day book of cartoons is excellent.

I refuse to back down…it’s a great cartoon. No one would care if that were Condoleeza Rice being caricatured.

come out from under those covers and stop the hate.

No pity from me…I want one of those t-shirts Chris Matthews suggested….how about you all?

McCain ’08

A cartoon satire of Barack and Michelle rises to the same level of what Senator Clinton endured.

She was depicted as Hitler mustache, swastika, and all.

The Hillary flying on a broom is a classic.

The “pimping out her daughter” remark. Implying that Hillary’s a madam and her daughter is a prostitute.
No such comment was made when Obama approved an interview with his under aged daughters.

Then the suggestion that she needs a good f**k. By whom is not made clear. Implying rape is always a winner.

Let’s not complain about any of that.

Okie dokie.

AOL Straw may not be scientific but usually 300k-500k votes are cast each week. Quite significant to me. I trust it more than a 1000 person poll.

right ON Perry about the Clinton Haters!!

Exactly!

but that beginning made me think I was having a vertigo episode! Yikes!

hehe

And remember the vicious article(s) about Rudy Giuliani and his consort? I mean, he deserved them, and they too were true, but why is it only OK when it’s not the media’s latest crush?

You don’t get the joke Pat?

The joke is that Obama is the selection in a fixed and corrupt process who has associations and a background that leads to a cover like on the New Yorker

Is that true that BO is still ahead in the electoral college vote?

George Bush never sent operatives to hound a magazine that satirized him!

Think you live in a political state now?
Just pray Barack Hussein Obama is never dear leader. Criticize his ass and you will be OUT OF BUSINESS in no time.

Funny thing: this isn’t even satire of Obama! It makes fun of the right wing smear faction.

Based on 34% probably think Lindsay Lohan would be a good commander in chief.

“This is nonsense. It is not tasteless. It does not take aim at the Obamas; it skewers the rabid tin-foil-hat wearers who make outrageous claims about the Obamas.”

Another poster stated this earlier too:

Comment by llilytoo | 2008-07-14 21:21:49

If the New Yorkers’ story is true and they were trying to ridicule the bible clingy bitter people who holds these views, they now have to include Obama into the rube column , since he didn’t get the joke either.

The Clinton comment was sexist put-down.

This is clearly a jibe at the right wing smear machine. Not Barack Hussein asshole.

Anyone who allows Bros before Hos T-shirts really doesn’t have much of a legitimate case for complaining.

Anyone need a box of note cards?
http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=74K9NR37608N8LVREU94KLUHTQRKDRR1&sitetype=1&sid=125383&did=4

I can’t help it, after all the crap Clinton took and didn’t complain…Tell me is this worse than the nutcracker and all the other crappy t-shirts and stuff..I still laugh when I look at the cover.

I warned the Obamabots at the caucus who had told me that Obama was untouchable that he wasn’t vetted. The Republicans spent 40 million on the Clinton’s so Hillary was ready for anything.
Obamabots I feel sorry for you! This is only the beginning for your Faux Messiah.

I’m not nuts…but Barky DID WEAR THAT GET UP. There is some truth there, Moxy.

Or maybe Oblowme simply hasn’t taken control yet.

No, we are supposed to bow at his feet and only speak about his magical powers and his resemblance to great historical figures. Look at the ferocity of the response: someone DARED to critique the Chosen One!! Horrors! Can you imagine what is going to happen when the 527′s let loose?

Amen. It’s just a funny satire. Why the f*k is Obama sicking his Bots on this magazine?
They’ve been good to the jerk.

Now maybe they have a glimpse of what we might be in for if that fascist gets in power.

It makes me want to fight even harder to keep him out.

If the shoe fits wear it!

Obama’s associations with radicals who hate the United States are fast catching up to him.

ditto

Comment by doctorate | 2008-07-14 21:45:12

I love the cover. Lou Dobbs put it into perspective by presenting other past New Yorker such covers on Bush and Cheney, Kerry, Hillary and others. All were in the same vein, but without the ensuing clamors.

These are not the kinds of works that make you laugh out loud. Smile maybe.

Now this will make you laugh out loud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQX7Awjui40&feature=related

(I never realized there was an actual photograph of Grandma under the bus.)
………………………………
Paster Manning is over the top and down right insulting to Michelle Obama as A PERSON! She is a person, a human being and she is good looking. Rev. Manning is attacking her stature, he features etc. This is not A GODLY message…raise the bar! PLEASE!

Yes, she has come off as not to gentile but she is intelligent, good looking and a good mother to her two children. She has not had the experience of being out in the public eye nor having to see how the message is going to carry…onward… once off ones lips. The campaign needs to have someone help her in reaching out, so that her children are not harmed in the middle of all this.

Obama should take the heat for flipping on FISA, and other policy positions, but Michelle should be pulled back until she is given some more experience by her handlers.

So, please, no PERSONAL ATTACKS on Michelle, Larry Johnson has made that clear and listing to Rev. Manning made the New Yorker Look like child’s play with crayons. It would break my heart if I had the Rev. Manning call my grandchildren chimps or making fun of their appearance. I took no joy in seeing all the misogyny aimed at Hillary Clinton and it brings me no joy to see another woman/mother being lambasted even if I don’t agree with them on policy. Lets raise the bar and lets argue points on policy and leave the personal attacks out. PLEASE!

Me too!
And I have to pay newstand prices too. My sweet Mother, 80 years old, usually gives me her old New Yorkers if I ask, but she’s not giving this one up…no way!

Neither have the Oblowme’s flag stomping Pentagon bombing buddies Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

And the Oblowme’s and Farakhan’s Black Liberation bring the walls down on whitey shit is a regular laugh riot too.

Reed has just said he’s not interested in the VP spot.

Man, talk about a short list! It’s getting downright funny.

When you and Howard stop trying to go against the will of the American people and the concept of one-person one-vote and crawl back under your rocks, we will all make kissy, kissy and lovey dovey. Until then the truth will continue to come out on you and the corrupt DNC!

(I never realized there was an actual photograph of Grandma under the bus.)

just reading that made me bust out laughing..

I’m so pissed about all this BS over a little satire, that I am giving my children subscriptions to the New Yorker.
We already subscribe.

Good idea! I actually enjoy the New Yorker but they pile up since my son was born because the articles are too long.
I usually read it at my Mother’s in the country.
Now, I’ll subscribe.
I do have a feeling though that the New Yorker’s reputation will out last Barky’s.
speaking of Good Magazine articles, City Journal has a great one calling Barky a shaman.
There’s a link on REAL CLEAR POLITICS.

Yep!

What a difference a day makes!

Yesterday, Hillary supporters who were angry about Bernie Mac’s sexist jokes at Obama’s fundraiser – and Obama faking offense at those jokes – were told by Obamabots that those jokes were “satire.” Obamabots told Hillary supporters that they needed to “lighten up”, that they were “whiners” with “no sense of humor.”

Today, however, their “sense of humor” is failing them with the New Yorker cover.

Hmmmmmmmmmm…..

Oh sh!t Wright may get it after all!

I must disagree with you. There were covers at the NYR that depicted Bush/Cheney as gay cowboys using the Brokeback theme. Then there was the one about Katrina, with Condi, and the gang sitting in the Oval office half submerged in water. If you don’t get it, at least respect for once, freedom of the press. If you don’t get that cover you might not be getting the way the magazine’s very dry delicious wit goes about making fun of everyone, in this case using the fear of the right to make a point. People who think Obama is a muslim are not going to vote for him anyway, the rest who are not voting for him will not need the cover to make that decision. What is going on here?

Once again, Obama has let out his dogs. The most disturbing thing about this reaction is that the left as well as the right is absolutely paranoid. Obama’s faux indignation is just a way to threaten the press and media. It doesn’t stop him from using his ruse, to obliterate his opponents, and by the way he’s doing it here, then why this regrettable exhibition of ignorance and intolerance for wit or humor.

Are Americans stupider than we than they sound and look? Are we going to behave like the Muslims who rioted over those Danish cartoons? Is there anyone not drinking the kool aid?

Now I fully understand why Christ died, not for our sins, he was just exhausted. “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”

You forgot “read from a teleprompter” at the end of “stupid pompous and preachy speeches.”.

Thank you Sprout, I thought it was reefer.

lol*…..now THERE’s a thought.

I sent them an e-mail telling them what a brilliant cover they have and that I will be buying two copies.

I remember that on the cover of the humor magazine SPY, not a drawing but a photo mock-up. That was a pretty popular magazine, and anybody who went to the newsstand would see it.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2008/02/no_word_yet_on_when.php

The point is, if you want to run for president, you’re going to get a whole lot of this stuff thrown at you. The target of such barbs would do best to handle it in a good-natured fashion.

The problem is Barack doesn’t have a sense of humor.

That is a fantastic piece of Art.

No matter what side your on left, way left, toward the center, whoa boy, all the way to the right, back to center – wherever, that cover is from today and forever forward a piece of Americana. It’s all so debatable, that is true. But…big but…

it tells His-story smack-dab in broad daylight on a Monday morning. It is wonderful and its story is as well.

Is that carpet they are standing on – the bogus, pretentious and audacious rip-off seal they paraded around and actually hung at a meeting of USA Governors? (Just for that one day, though).

Busted, again.

Ooooo GAng Lookie Lookie!

While I was checking out a previous bloggers utube link funny I went ahead and searched for anything new from Manning………..

Lookie, Lookie! this is an interview just a couple days ago with a local tv news channel about BHO and Jesse and what Manning thinks is the REAL dealeo with why Jackson “supposedly” apologized.

damn Manning can be so NORMAL
(I’d never vote for him but he’s not running for anything) LOL

I very much enjoy this Obamabot-free, free-wheeling discussion.

Ms. Brazile, it’s way too late to “stop the hate” since you were a ring leader serving as a Clinton race baiter along with Rep. Clyburn of SC for the Obama Campaign while claiming uncommitted and later unannounced Super Delegates. While I have this opportunity, it is also too late for all the accolades you are now trying to bestow the Clintons’. It will not work! As a democratic party activist for years, once a national convention delegate, and a “very left” democrat as you said yesterday on ABC’s THIS WEEK”, an ardent Hillary supporter, I will not be persuaded to vote for your hand-picked, horrendously inadequate candiate. You, Ms. Brazile, along with your den of thieves at the DNC, have more to do with my decision than Obama. I will do whatever it takes to deny you this ill-gotten gain.

And those that do subscribe should send a “Thank You” note.

Penn Jillette’s “joke” was also condemned by a Daily Kos blogger as “ignorantly misogynistic” and “should be condemned by EVERYONE.”

Jeffrey Toobin on CNN called it “appalling.”

Bill O’Reilly labeled Jillette a “pinhead.”

Even Andrew Sullivan called the joke “offensive.”

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! That is so scary.

My spiritual advisor, The Reverend Manning. Now one says it quite like he does.

Yeah, the color of his skin doesn’t matter but the thickness of his skin is what will matter in the long run. He is too thin skinned to be POTUS because everything hurts his wittle feelings.

Exactly…….

Are you talking to me or UBM?

the nose was wrong for it to be Bin Laden . I think it’s that other crazy.

Donna – That’s Barry and MEMEMEchelle under those covers.

The cartoon failed, because there is more than a kernel of truth to it.

Bill O’Reilly just showed some Omigodyourkidding me roaring and demonstrtive speech “snippet”. It looks current. (OBiKnowbitall is desparate)

Yikes! God is everywhere!!

Looks like everyone is entitled to 40 acres and a mule. I want mine in Captiva. Please and thank you, Ceasar.

It can’t get any better! ahahahahha

Wright On!

I agree…. He is finally starting to get what he deserves.

but the question should be how many covers of the New Yorker will be plastered behind the bar in all those working class watering holes.

I love the look on Barky’s face. Remember the show “Homicide”? Barky looks like the drug dealer…although my Mother thinks he looks like my poor husband.

It is an historical piece of Americana forever.
No matter what.

Maybe it’s because Teddy Kennedy called him Osama?

Or maybe because of his Iraqi billionnaire buddies/convicted felons like Auchi, Alsamare etc.?

Maybe it’s just that they could be seen as anti-American and Bin Laden is our enemy?

cry me a river

Michelle O is ooooooooogly and HATEFUL

Manning is just calling it like he sees it!

He’s less crazy then Wright, Pfleger & Moss but not as much a HYPOCRITE and definitely mentions GOD more often. Um since they are Pastors, Revs and the like.

MSNBC INvited him back again to appear and retell the joke

That would be58 he had 1 more to go..

someone mention Howard?

isn’t that what BUSH did?

you wouldn’t think that would have something to do with the nature of AOL users, would it? lol.

Hope®, Change®, Unity®, and

UMBRAGE®

Whenever Obama takes offense and makes a huge issue over some silly little thing… I look for the most recent item he’s trying to distract us from. In this case, I think it’s his statement about sending thousands more troops into Afghanistan.

I guess he wasn’t lying when he said he’d remove the troops in Iraq almost immdiately. What he didn’t tell us is that he’d just be relocating them to Afghanistan.

Now yer just makin’ shit up.

I’ve never bought one issue before in my life, but I bought this one. I’m gonna frame it.

My goodness you can’t get away from that cover I turned on the teevee and there it was, still laughing..

Perhaps we should take our cues from Barack Obama…

AND JUST SAY NOTHING.

We can express how badly we feel about how the Obamas are depicted on the cover…

Whenever it becomes politically expediate for us to do so. Hmmmm?

She’s a big mouthed attorney going around the country speaking on his behalf.

If she was tough enough to take hundreds of thousands of dollars for kicking the weak and poor out of Chicago U Hosp…

Well, like I said – SHE’S A BIG…!

wry,
ahaahaaha omigod! LOL … my Mom cracks me up all the time – she’s so snide. Love it.

I especially like the carpet and the earrings. What’s that on the mantle? arugula? how ever you spell it. It is yummy, though.

The carpet I think is the telltale of the message because there is no way in hell that’s a smear or a myth. Parody? There’s so much truth in a joke.
I like that rug!

Yeah, she looks like Angelis Davis ready to go out to do the ‘VIEW’. No, Talking Head Dummies, she looks like Michelle Obama. It’s uncanny.

Davis, there goes that name again. There are more Davis’ than Chins in a Chinese (?) phonebook.

You mean…If the sandle fits wear it!

I say hurry up and get that thing to the Smithsonian as fast as you can!!!! Hurry!!!

TEHE!

Michelle asked for that cover, and she received it.

LOL……yes…

I Looooove E.D. Even when I hated Fox.

She is an outstanding American woman.

I think Larry said no RACIST remarks…personal is political.

And they criticized my girl Hillary so much, I like when they say Michelle looks like a monkey. She does!
It’s not racist, It’s not sexist, George Bush also looks like a monkey.

Reverend Jackson,

Need a nutcracker?

I’ll be back after I’m done blowing Uncle Daddy for 50 grand. Hot flashes? no problem, feels like Miami.

I’m just messin’ witcha.

It is called blow me journalism. MSNBC is nasty.

Emergency “Therapy Sessions” went up tonight.

The “funniest” aspect of the Mo-Bo cover is how nasty the New Yorker was to Hillary during the primary.

Maybe Obama can clean up his act by using Oprah’s whisk now that she has finished her cleansing. Oprah thinks she too is God this week. Must be something powerful in those Kool-Aid enemas.

This was also my take on the flag in the fireplace…a veiled reference. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other galleys showing it underneath their feet.

There are always alternate versions of what ultimately makes the cover!

The reason it is so upsetting to the MSM and Obama is that they cant stand there might be some truth. If there wasn’t everyone would know its a joke.

Just SUXs sooo bad.
If I wanted a love fest, I’d get a room.

Hi Keith.

another similarity between Bush and obama…..they both resemble the guy on Mad magazine.

as well as your mind.

Hitler was just talker in the 20s just like Obama is now

ru kiddin?

wry: I agree the comparison to Hitler and the ovens is way way way over the top and off base.
This cartoon is nothing like it.

On the cartoon itself; I feel no sympathy for BO & MO on this. BO might learn a thing or two about freedom of speech and his FISA position.

Besides, everyone is rushing to their rescue and defense now is kind of absurd (poor defenseless child…). I have no clue why even McCain had to say “how tasteless and offensive” it was…

BTW why is everyone using the exact same “words” (tasteless and offensive)…
BO’s campaign “cue” ??

Will anyone make a t-shirt, please?

I know you’re kidding. Tell me in case you are not, I’ll buy two from now on.

R.S.V.P. (that’s French)

Hitler in the 20s gave the German People Hope! sound familiar?

Live by the cover…..die by the cover.

I agree Joel. Exactly.

Should have included a shredder with his original Birth Certificate in it and a shelf with Rev Wright and/or Michelle Obama rants on video stored upon it.

Much Obliged.

Thank you.

Press On The Press.

P U M A for real.

“Barry!!!! When I demanded the cover of “The New Yorker”, I didn’t mean this “Crap”!!!”

“Where’s the air-brushing? I look hideous!!”

Love,

MEMEMEchelle

So it is however you spell it! UM-MM Yummy. I love argualallarugaa.

It so Auchi

How so?
And you don’t have to connect through AOL to vote.

Obama is not thin-skinned. He is pretending to be outraged and using media sympathy to regain some support from his fans. He is playing the victim game right now and seeing how many votes he can get from it.

Alfred E Neuman

I’ve been saying that for a year

Right, if the flip flop fits, wear it!

It’s about that time to staple a copy of that cover on every phone pole in America, nice and low so the kiddies can see it when mom drives by.

It is all faux outrage… Who are they? The untouchables?

I heard an interview on NPR today of Remnick and I liked his explanation. He also pointed to all the cartoons we made on Bush all these years some pretty crude (which imo he deserved of course !!)

You people… I swear to God. Everyone on this blog can’t stop whining about “sexism” and “misogyny,” yet you call Obama thin-skinned.

Barack Obama took the Clinton Machine’s best shots and out-politicked the whole lot of them. Get. Over. It.

You all are ruining your own lives with all this bad energy.

I’m out of here.

I think that this is the perfect balance to Barry’s superman without a cape on Rolling Stone (BARF!) and Michelle in “pearls.”

Can’t take the heat? Go back to the rarified air in Hyde Park.

exactly , if the suicide bomber vest fits, wear it.

Grandma? What Grandma????

Is the big bad wolf still in the house?

Big ears better to hear you, my dear. Big Fist to punch your lights out if you breathe a word Grandma?

Willie ~~~ heads up, `Hon`.

Some News You Can’t Use.

2 sugars and cream

It is all faux outrage… Who are they? The untouchables?

I heard an interview on NPR today of Remnick and I liked his explanation. He also pointed to all the cartoons they made on Bush all these years some pretty crude (which imo he deserved of course !!)

But to their credit, Bush and Cheney are gay cowboys. You don’t think the brothers grimm planted gay escorts in the press room just to ask questions do you?

I am not saying the man is Hitler but the worship of this man is like it.The worship of any body in politics is very scary.

Because when you have a religious belief in someone you can do some very violent things

found this in Yglesias comments:

Joke: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Answer: That’s not funny.

He did say the Arabic translators in Iraq needed to be sent immediately over to Afghanistan too. Somewhere in his depth of knowledge of nations and his worldly experience from living abroad and extensive travel that he claims makes him more qualified than any other candidate in matters of foreign policy and relations, he was totally unaware that Pashto is the official and most widely spoken language in Afghanistan.

mention this again. It will get lost.

Reverend Manning should be on the Talking Head Shows. We really need to pay attention and be cognizant of our surroundings and other peoples viewpoints. We only have to listen and then trust our own instincts. Just discern. By way of being on this site, e all each and everyone think for ourslves.

That could be amjor problem for Axelrod, poor dear.

I would love a sequel on David. No, a Prequel.

How I dreamed of Hijacking Bill Clinton’s game plan and attribute it to some exotic Plant-in-waiting. A good beach read, for shore.

I’m still in disbelief that they are actually outraged about this. Aren’t they the oh so smart ones that get the satire stuff? I honestly expected them to laugh it off. The drawing details legitimate aspects of his life. It just exaggerates them. Get over it.

Doesn’t look like OBL … More like one of the other
ones lurking in Iraq.

actually….yes

Gotcha

It belongs in the Smithsonian.

Before they try to scrub it. Dry Clean Only: the carpet. made in Persia

Hillary was being nice to BOBO in the primaries.

As far as the New Yorker’s humor is concerned, after 9/11, they produced this cover

http://tinyurl.com/66dark

It is hanging framed on my wall in Texas. I would have ordered the shower curtain version, but I didn’t need one at the time.

Now you can get this framed as well. Demand t-shirts.
http://tinyurl.com/6bptsf

http://www.cartoonbank.com

So in other words, you can count on one hand those in the MSM who came to Hillary’s defense.

Wow real impressive.

Its more than that. It really is.

Well if they offer it to Howard we’ll know right away…we’ll hear him scream.

Wow, this is the most stunning thing I ever have seen you have the MSM complaining that Obama is a victim because the New Yorker was saying he was a victim.

This is getting confusing!!

Exactly…..I guess all pictures should make him look like Jesus. LOL*

Oh well, the Huffington Post has 2 articles that scold everyone for overreacting.

You are right mimi.

recent developments have revealed that MOMO has a bitchen AK-47

How is he going to put up with Leno, Letterman, Maher….

Laughing will probably be the next houehold/family sacrifice. Let’s see some humor.

And that Birth Certifcate, too. That will be featured in the next drawing. Check the walls.

Plus, he thinks by giving a stupid and preachy speech read from a teleprompter with a famous European landmark behind him that it gives him immediate credence and substance to his foreign policy experience, of which he has none except for being the chair of the Afghani Oversight Committee in the Senate for which he has convened meetings a total of zero times.

Yo, we’re “folks” over here. Not! You people.

And the reason for that failure is everyone already knows that you, Obama, and all the Obot cultists are the definition of ridiculous.

I mean really, when compared and contrasted to you “Folks”, squeegee men would look sane and saintly.

that’s funny, up until now Huffy Poo has been willfully ginning up over reaction.

How many Kossacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
My friend wants to donate a small woodblock print of a PUMA girl for the best answer.

Lee, I think you are on to sumptin.

Like a ton of bricks for me.

I knew Superman. Obama ain’t no Superman.

Dear “Editor in Chief,” You are soooo right!

I thought so too. Yeah? what?

It was what they were standing on that tells me the point. Because that ain’t no myth. That was present day in your face bogus and audacious pretense…blah.
No smear there.
No rumor.
No lie.
Not Hillary’s Fault.

While the Obama egomaniacal “left” plays j’accuse with a left establishment like The New Yorker, the right is sitting back and laughing their ass off.

LMAO…As someone said on another site, looks like the New Yorker people caught the Obomb family while they thought no one was looking. Guess the truth hurts.

His Uncle Daddy, maybe?

Just say no deal to this obvious attempt by Team Obama to turn Senator Obama into the victim of a Muslim witch-hunt using a SATIRICAL New Yorker cover, rather than have him face the large number of troubling questions about his past, his current political relationships, his fund raising sources and the fact that his US Senate activities may have been influenced by foreign input.

http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/07/just-say-no-deal-to-new-yorker-its.html

You see, it was all a lie that Obama’s close associated Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers are anti-American.

It’s a slanderous myth that Obama’s associates and even his church have promoted terrorists and terrorist causes.

And of course Mr. Obama never wore an Islamic outfit. Nor did he and Michele ever do a “fist bump.” Nor has his campaign been endorsed by Hamas and other terrorists.

These were fantasies dreamt up by lunatic rightwingers.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/new-yorker-portrays-obamas-as-terrorists

This is just another in a series of political tricks to try to garner support for Obama, as he is free falling in the polls and in in the ability to raise money. Last week it was Jeese Jackson:

How perceptive of Jesse Jackson to notice that the arrogant Affirmative Action post turtle Barack Hussein Obama has been “talking down” to black people — just like he’s been talking down to everyone else. Obammunists are advised not to blame Jackson for rather crudely expressing his jealous wish to castrate the Obamessiah. As the folks at Democratic Underground will tell you, the whole episode was the fault of Fox News — unless of course it was all cleverly staged by Jackson. Gibbers a DUmmie named KharmaTrain.

“Part of me thinks Jesse could be playing this for a “Sistah Soljah” moment for Obama. His son is a big wheel inside Camp Obama. Obama has been taking a lot of heat lately from the bigots and this could take their hatred and direct it in another direction…going after an old favorite target. Jesse knew where he was sitting and maybe he’s taking one for the team. It also shows, once again, for the majority who are tuned off on this network, how racist they, and repugnican, are.”

It seems the wise and benevolent extortionist Jesse Jackass played those racist repugnicans at Faux News like a violin.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/07/an_amazing_theo.html

PUMA

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Your comment just made “Gem of the Day” at the New Wave Democrats blog.
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Mimi, you said it all. What a fantastic way to end a puurfect PUMA Nation Day.

It’s been real.

This is silly. The New Yorker article isn’t a gaffe. It’s once again Obama trying to look like a victim. It’s ridiculous.

There is ONe place on this earth I would not have wanted to be – anywhere in the vicinity of this first-class crass couple when they first eyed this cover. Kabooooom.

They think they are so unapproachable. Good for the New Yorker.

I don’t think it’s a mistake at all. I was on another blog just now and they had pictures of past New Yorker covers that could have been considered “controversial” by the subjects in them, but nobody went crazy like this. I say they need to get over it and the New Yorker should stand their ground.

I’d say the cartoon succeeded because there’s more than a kernel of truth to it. And admire their courage for they must have known they would take a lot of heat for this.

The New Yorker cover didn’t offend me, but then I’m not a supporter of Senator Obama. I didn’t think The New Yorker was trying to influence people into thinking Senator Obama is Muslim or Mrs. Obama is a militant. My impression upon first seeing the cover and not knowing what the article was about, that it was satire and playing off of we don’t really know what either person stands for or believes in and that is going to be a wealth of fodder for the right wing fear machine. I haven’t read the article yet, but it appears my first impression was correct. Too bad. It would have been more fun if The New Yorker had discovered the Senator is Muslim and Mrs. Obama is a militant. At least the Obama news would have been somewhat interesting today.

I think the cover predicts what we’ll see this fall. The right wing has a wealth of material to work with to misrepresent the Obamas, starting with the flag. I don’t wear a flag pin, I don’t have a flag flying in my yard. Neither is important to me, but I do believe the Constitution is the most important document in the history of the world and it should be revered and protected. I think our forefathers and mothers were among the most brilliant thinkers that the world will ever see. I don’t display my patriotism, but it burns brightly in my heart. I’m not proud of what our nation has done for the past eight years, but I am proud of what we have stood for and will hopefully stand for again in the future.

Flag pins, hands over hearts during the national anthem, whether or not Mrs. Obama is proud of the U.S., the Senator’s religion, etc., is nothing but nonsense to me. It’s his lack of experience and his track record as a community activist and legislator I find significant and will keep me from voting for him.

The New Yorker has to have realized the controversy the cover would result in. To someone who doesn’t read The New Yorker and has no idea the covers are usually satirical, the cover is easily misinterpreted. I have to wonder if The New Yorker switched their cover in the past couple of weeks because they’re turning against him after all the Flip Flop Express drove into town. The New Yorker could have added something to the cover to make it plain it was satire, but they didn’t. I find that interesting.

I am a Clinton soldier.

But, I have this to say about the New Yorker.

They crossed the line with that cartoon.

Let’s all shut our big mouths for a minute and think about those Obama children.

When I saw that magazine cover I did not laugh, the first thing that came to my mind were their children and what they would have to endure as a result of seeing such a vile picture of their parents.

Politics is a wicked world. But, on this one the New Yorker crossed the line and those little Obama girls are going to have those images of their parents that were in a national magazine imprinted in their minds for the rest of their lives.

Oh sure you can say they won’t see the picture……they will surely see it and you cannot sugar coat it.

I ask…….what then will they think of this country?

I truly am a Clinton soldier and I bet she would agree!

all of them… have to stick their tongues in it first.

I don’t know we could have violence in the street drawing the prophet in cartoon.

apparently MOMO is a soldier too. Don’t you think the kids would be proud of their Mom?

The total circulation of the New Yorker is slightly above one million copies. Would not a little controversy push more copies and help the bottom line? Money and profit is a mighty motivator.

that cover is making fun of this site and community yet you idiots like it

For those who actually were offended by this truth veiled in humor cover, consider this please:

When Larry Sinclair held his press conference, I went to youtube to see it. After I watched it, I saw that the right column of youtube was (mysteriously and incongruently) all pro-obama speech clips of the fake messiah- except for one, labeled in large letters: LARRY SINCLAIR.

So, of course, I clicked it thinking it was more on the press conference. Instead, it was the most revolting thing I have ever seen. It was a porn sex video of Pres. Bill Clinton at his desk all dubbed over with voices in French and a woman having sex with him. I was shocked to numbness that someone who treat an American former President that way- as a victimized center attraction in porn!

Afterwards I learned this: the political website that paid L.S. to take the lie detector test (which they subsequently claimed he failed but refused to release any proof of) – that website was a so-called “Clinton porn site” which made its living selling filth videos like this. Then obama paid them to transform into a political site, just to counter Larry Sinclair.

So, there they were- right after the nobama press conference- lurking in the shadows at youtube, poised, positioned and waiting for people who wanted to check out Sinclair- to instead get slapped in the face with that filth on Bill Clinton.

Anyone finding the New Yorker cover ‘distasteful’ would have to pull taffy to stretch that into any comparison with the day-to-day ongoing ravages of decency continuously exploited by the obama campaign. Touche!

We’re going to turn it into a weapon.

I thought the cover was funny but I have to say I find the Obama’s camp reaction even funnier than the cover…As one poster already stated.

If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

You can’t be serious. Freedom from being offended would put cartoonist like Ted Rall out of business.

Once you institute freedom from being offended as a limitation upon free speech you have chilled free speech. Go read some of the foreign press, especially from the UK and France where laws have been codified preventing such offense from free speech and see the ridiculous results that have ensued because a thin skinned offense was taken. Animal rights, piggy banks and a dog on a police flyer come readily to mind where offense has been found.

My professor neighbor just said he was discussing “All in the Familyl” with his students, and one said that he thought the show should be banned.
The reasoning was that some people would not realize that Archie Bunker was a satirical bigot, and might think that he was for real.

Now that Barack is a candidate, the media now has to play for the lowest denominator.

you don’t get it. its not making fun of him.

it is making fun of you.

Uppity: I agree. The only reason people are “shocked, shocked I tell you!” is that it was the New Yorker. Very Mad Magazine to me…

We’re going to turn it into a weapon.

the jokes on you. literally.

wow you’re dumb.

but she really came back, wouldn’t you say? they deemed she peaked too soon…but she couldn’t be stopped!

Funny, how the great leader always sounds like a VICTIM!

Funny how the “Obama camp reaction” is very similar to the “Hillary camp reaction” a few months ago. (Hillary nutcrackers, anyone?)

Of course, nobody is accusing the folks at NoQuarter of not being able to stand the heat (and to get out of the kitchen) over their very similar reaction to her treatment.

Oh well, just goes to show that it’s not the tactics that bother people… just whom they are directed against.

We’re going to turn it into a weapon..

Umm, where have I seen this type of reaction before?

http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beheadwhoinsultobamaqp4.jpg

I’ll agree with you, too, though I’m not sure that was the magazine’s intent.

You definitely win!
Now I have to figure out how to ship it to you!
If you want to post your email address here, I ‘ll contact you for an address to send it to.

We’re voting for John McCain in November. Nothing can be said or done to change that.

Get. Over. That.

“But, I have this to say about the New Yorker.

They crossed the line with that cartoon.”

Did LBJ cross the line with his ‘mushroom cloud’ ad about Goldwater? The one with the little girl smelling the flower? What’s worse than suggesting Goldwater would start nuclear war that would kill your little daughter along with all life on the planet?

Is the cartoon worse than saying Rudy Giuliani is Hitler. Hitler!!? Or Karl Rove is an emissary of Satan, or making a cartoon with Paul Wolfowitz’s face on toilet paper?

Is race a special ‘no-fly zone’ in politics? Why? I believe in Title 7 Civil Rights special protections for blacks in the workplace — not in presidential politics. Poor Obama, the poor little victim of racism. I want my President to be Iron Man, not some infant that needs protection.

Meanwhile, Putin poisons his political enemies. I guess that crosses the line.

I wrote a blogpost awhile back about Michelle being “Camille” and I posted it on a well-known site…and got an email saying that it was a terrible analogy to make and my post was being deleted! OH, so sensitive!!

But she is “Camille” if you get the literary reference…

Here is the post from May 14:

Politico’s Jim Vandehi Shills for Michelle “Camille” Obama

http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/politicos-jim-vandehi-shills-for-michele-camille-obama/

I wonder how many Barky fans are using “arugula” as code when they call their dealers for the green stuff?

He ALWAYS plays The Victim. And when it is politically expedient, he always portrays himself as a hero. So 2 faced.

PUMA.

You always say you’re “out of here.” Effin liar. Go buy a dildo and name it Barry.

When I was a kid the cartoon of the country came out in The New Yorker in which NYC dwarfed the rest of the country. As if anything west of the Hudson was of no consequence. A symbolic turning up of the nose. This cover was the same kind of deal. It is what the New Yorker does. Obama is a creation of the types who subscribe to that magazine. Obama freaked out because he knows very well what many people west of the Hudson think about him.He knows ,too, what the New Yorker was getting at with the cover.It is just that he’s spent several months trying to erase that visual from the “low-information” set. The media has done everything but carry him over the finish line in a baby carriage. I’ve never seen anything in my life like it.

“the repubs hate obama more than hillary and that takes a lot of work.” i love that comment.

Kids see a caricature about parents in one mag; no prob.

Kids FRIGHTENED/Brainwashed by Rev. Wright for 20 YEARS, at BHO/MO insistence. That’s scary.

In fact, you can post your answer here, and then we can email you.
We just put this up. We have a couple to give away.

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I don’t get it…the horribly sexist, mysogonist treatment of Hillary Clinton (which everyone agrees goes mostly ignored) makes makes racist, anti-Muslim rhetoric a good thing? How about this radical idea…it’s ALL abhorrent. Oppressions don’t have to be pitted against one another.

You guys are all hilarious tonight…
LOOOLLLLLLL. Peeing my pants.

I agree wholeheartedly. To hell with him. After what he has done to the Democratic Party, he can go to hell. I’m glad the New Yorker did this and it is not a “gaffe”. It was orchestrated for a particular reason. Millions of us out here are not shedding tears or feeling insulted by this cover. I think it brilliant!

take “you people” and put it where the sun doesn’t shine.

Why is BHO BHO pied piper and mesmerized followers SOOOOOO concerned about this “tasteless” (per BHO BHO) NY’er cover?

Nothing to fear, but fear itself. Woops, numbers slipping, people questioning… Expose working.

michelle is ugly. is she your sister?

SLOBAMA is getting what he deserves. After the manner in which he has treated Hillary and her supporters, he can go to hell and sit there in the tenth circle.

His wife never looked better!

Let’s not forget John Hagee. We need to beware of all dangerous, extremous religious leaders, no matter who they preach to!

I hope there are hundreds more cartoons even more vile coming out for publication. Let his chickens come home to roost. What goes around comes around!

Maudlin Judd,

The Obamas exposed their children to the hate rants of Wright. That is worse, than a harmless cartoon with your parents in Holloween outfits, is not as scary as a booming voice spewing anger at you. How do you think those girls interpreted those vitriolic sermons. You just can’t pick and choose what is okay and what is wrong here.

This poseur wants to be our President, how scary can that be? We need to look at the total picture.

For millions of us out here this cartoon didn’t fail. It validated.

Actually Terri he’s the refuge that exits the horses patoot!

Yes target practice by all those bible-clinging, gun-toting, typical white people! Yep they’ll be using that cover for target practice in those watering holes!

ROFLMAO

Who are they? Hopefully after November, NOBODIES!

This was in ‘The Onion’ a few years ago and I do not recall anyone getting upset about it (see link below – beware – it’s The Onion being satyrical). You might have to copy and paste the link?

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42136

Not one Democrat got upset when they saw that one on Laura Bush now did they. NOPE.

I am starting to realize there are a lot of Democrats voting for Obama that have no sense of humor and no understanding of the phrase, ‘freedom of speech’ – unless they’re the ones ‘speaking’. Some of these same people become petty and viscious when they lose control or don’t have control over everything and everyone within their universe and even outside of their universe. They can’t stand it when someone can’t or won’t see things their way.

Some Democrats, like those at some of the other blogs, really scare me. Especially the ones that drank the kool-aid for Obama. I’d name names but those blogs scare me (not kidding – vicious snakes). I think one of them sent out a spam on my work e-mail because I – I can’t figure out who else would have done it and it was at a time exactly when I was banned for standing with Hillary and against Obama. So I won’t name them or visit that (%^(#^( blog.

Undercover,
I thought it was “outta” here. Off yur game?

wry
roflmao!!!

Judd:
Oh stop that! What? We are supposed to stop living and breathing because it might affect the Obama girls!!!??
This is the real world! If BO didn’t want his girls exposed to the heat, he shouldn’t have taken them to the bonfire!

Extreme times call for extreme measures. Fund raising is extremely low. The New Yorker staff got the memo.

You know what card we’ve played to this point, please enable its continued use, mission accomplished.

The depiction of Michelle was extremely unflattering, see how she takes being treated like Sen.Hillary Clinton was treated by the media.

We’ve lowered the bar. Hey, Harvard did the same thing for their former Law Review editor? They were ahead of the curve, though not in literal terms.

I remember that cover well. Local artists in Boca Raton, Key West, Naples, Petoskey and Traverse City all sent it up, poster-size, for the turista market.

A friend of mine did the same for Diego Garcia when I was there in 1995, but it was pretty subtle, unless: 1. You’ve been to DGAR, and, 2. You have a working grasp of geography.

DGAR is even more remote than Wake Island or Eniwetok…all nice places to go Rock-Happy, catch up on your Reading or get a nice, even tan.

How funny. I was going to say they had a lot of cat and dog cartoons that are great.

Hillary said, “It goes with the territory.” She has so much courage, they should take a lesson from her. Wouldn’t you have loved to have been a witness to their initial reaction? I read they both use profanities so I’ll bet the air was blue.

me too

Will they now be able to see what he and his supporters are really like?

Obama is one spoiled brat. Let him and his apologists stop whining and crying about a magazine cover, and fucking DO SOMETHING about the broken down buildings that Tony Rezko forced african-americans to live in, in Obama’s district of Chicago.

Jeremiah Wright foams at the mouth about RICH WHITE PEOPLE, when it is RICH BLACK PEOPLE who are perpetually screwing the people of the Chicago south side.

This is shaping up to be the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the american people. Think the grassy knoll and 9/11 were big? Wait ’til the Chicago machine (now the home of the DNC) take over this country. “Who sent you?” baby.

People have been bumping fists for years. Where have you all been that you haven’t noticed it?

MeeChelle is, in fact, Big Foot.

Who’s doing her work at the hospital while she’s out offending people?

Hope they don’t ask me. I don’t want it either.

I got a River of Whine, but just one wheel of cheese.

HuffPuff is a poor reference. Ariana Huffington has no moral high ground. They won’t post comments questioning Obama or challenging their lies. Whatever happened to “speaking TRUTH to power”? They practice censorship and won’t allow descenting opinion just like George Bush.

Is it the possum seal? I didn’t see it before that mac guy was added.

Just wrote to the New Yorker and got this reply. Now they are having to explain the humor. Could we please have our wonderfully humorous and irreverent country back please.

Thank you for writing. We appreciate your comments and, if you have a question, we’ll do our best to respond. However, owing to the volume of correspondence, we cannot reply to every e-mail individually.

About this week’s issue: Our cover, “The Politics of Fear,” combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall — all of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover. In this same issue you will also see that there are two very serious articles on Barack Obama inside —

Oprah has always thought that. She is the most smug, self satisfied woman I ever saw.

Yes…..and in the real world of people who are not elite limousine liberals, normal people are looking at the cover of the New Yorker (not that anyone would be caught dead reading the trash between it’s covers) and pondering the extent to which the themes brought up by this bit of “satire” are true. Obama has STRONG links to terrorism, including islamic terrorism. Especially troubling because he is lying about his past as a muslim. Michelle Obama is a black supremacist, of the vein of those crazy blacks you see wearing combat fatigues and carrying guns. Both are long time associates of those who spit on our flag and our way of life. WHAT THE NEW YORKER “SATIRE” SAYS ABOUT THESE TWO IS TRUE…..100% TRUE! Most normal people know it. Ad the New Yorker is getting into trouble for drawing attention to it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

The trouble is he pulls the poor, poor pitiful me routine every other day. Professional victims get very tiresome.

good answer

Oh for pete’s sake, get over it.

You mean those two kids who have already been taught to hate whitey?

and judd, stop pretending to be a Clinton supporters. We are so sick of your f***ing lies.

Where was all their tender care when Chelsea was trashed?

Cat, you need to understand, the large majority of Hillary’s supporters were on the front line in the Civil Rights Movement and the Feminist Movement. I don’t justify any racist statement, brought up my children to speak up against racism, my daughter to refuse to accept sexism and my son to respect women. I think if you examine the comments of the real Clinton people, you will see, not racism, but fury over the way she was treated. Feeling just a little vidicated to see Obama and friends squeal is human nature. Not nice maybe, but not racism.

Is this that Donna Brazile? The one who was barking with foaming mouth about rules while tearing down those very rules?

Than welcome among us Ms Brazile! I assure you, I don’t hate you. My religion doesn’t allow me to do such a thing. I get only nauseated whenever I think of you.

It is good however that you want to stop the hate. I suggest, you start rightaway at the Obama camp to clean up their behavior. Than you can go on to stop the hate against Hillary Clinton at the republican party. There is quite a work cut out for you.

I think donna brazile is going through menopause. she’s very irrational.

July 15, 2008
Want Obama in a Punch Line? First, Find a Joke

By BILL CARTER
What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet.

On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from both Democrats and Republicans was explosive.

Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television hosts who depend on skewering political leaders for a healthy quotient of their nightly monologues. Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and others have delivered a nightly stream of jokes about the Republican running for president — each one a variant on the same theme: John McCain is old.

But there has been little humor about Mr. Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race.

“We’re doing jokes about people in his orbit, not really about him,” said Mike Sweeney, the head writer for Mr. O’Brien on “Late Night.” The jokes will come, representatives of the late-night shows said, when Mr. Obama does or says something that defines him — in comedy terms.

“We’re carrion birds,” said Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show” on the Comedy Central channel. “We’re sitting up there saying ‘Does he seem weak? Is he dehydrated yet? Let’s attack.’ ”

But so far, no true punch lines have landed.

Why? The reason cited by most of those involved in the shows is that a fundamental factor is so far missing in Mr. Obama: There is no comedic “take” on him, nothing easy to turn to for an easy laugh, like allegations of Bill Clinton’s womanizing, or President Bush’s goofy bumbling or Al Gore’s robotic persona.

“The thing is, he’s not buffoonish in any way,” said Mike Barry, who started writing political jokes for Johnny Carson’s monologues in the waning days of the Johnson administration and has lambasted every presidential candidate since, most recently for Mr. Letterman. “He’s not a comical figure,” Mr. Barry said.

Jokes have been made about what Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton really thought about Mr. Obama during the primaries, and about the vulgar comments the Rev. Jesse Jackson made about him last week. But anything approaching a joke about Mr. Obama himself has fallen flat.

When Mr. Stewart on “The Daily Show” recently tried to joke about Mr. Obama changing his position on campaign financing, for instance, he met with such obvious resistance from the audience, he said, “You know, you’re allowed to laugh at him.” Mr. Stewart said in a telephone interview on Monday, “People have a tendency to react as far as their ideology allows them.”

Despite audience resistance, Mr. Stewart contended, his show had been able to develop a distinctive angle on Mr. Obama.

Noting that the senator seems to emphasize the historic nature of his quest, Mr. Stewart said, “So far, our take is that he’s positioning himself to be on a coin.”

There is no doubt, several representatives of the late-night shows said, that so far their audiences (and at least some of the shows’ writers) seem to be favorably disposed toward Mr. Obama, to a degree that perhaps leaves them more resistant to jokes about him than those about most previous candidates.

“A lot of people are excited about his candidacy,” Mr. Sweeney said. “It’s almost like: ‘Hey, don’t go after this guy. He’s a fresh face; cut him some slack.’ ”

Justin Stangel, who is a head writer for “Late Show With David Letterman,” disputed that, saying, “We always have to make jokes about everybody. We’re not trying to lay off the new guy.”

But Mr. Barry said, “I think some of us were maybe too quick to caricature Al Gore and John Kerry and there’s maybe some reluctance to do the same thing to him.”

Of course, the question of race is also mentioned as one reason Mr. Obama has proved to be so elusive a target for satire.

“Anything that has even a whiff of being racist, no one is going to laugh,” said Rob Burnett, an executive producer for Mr. Letterman. “The audience is not going to allow anyone to do that.”

The New Yorker faced a different kind of hostility with its cover this week, which the Obama campaign criticized harshly. A campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, said in a statement that “most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive — and we agree.”

Asked about the cover at a news conference Monday, Mr. McCain said he thought it was “totally inappropriate, and frankly I understand if Senator Obama and his supporters would find it offensive.”

The cover was drawn by Barry Blitt, who also contributes illustrations to The New York Times’s Op-Ed page. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, said in an e-mail message, “The cover takes a lot of distortions, lies, and misconceptions about the Obamas and puts a mirror up to them to show them for what they are.

“It’s a lot like the spirit of what Stephen Colbert does — by exaggerating and mocking something, he shows its absurdity, and that is what satire is all about,” Mr. Remnick continued.

Mr. Colbert said in a telephone interview that a running joke on his show has been that Mr. Obama is a “secret Muslim”; the New Yorker cover, he said, was consistent with that. “It’s a completely valid satirical point to make — and it’s perfectly valid for Obama not to like it,” he said.

Mr. Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Mr. Obama than other late-night hosts because “my character on the show doesn’t like him. I’m expected to be hostile to him.”

Mr. Stewart, who is also an executive producer of “The Colbert Report,” said the Obama campaign’s reaction to the New Yorker cover seemed part of what is now almost a pro forma cycle in political campaigns. “Nothing can occur without the candidate responding,” he said.

Bill Maher, who is host of a politically oriented late-night show on HBO, said, “If you can’t do irony on the cover of The New Yorker, where can you do it?”

One issue that clearly has some impact on writing jokes about Mr. Obama is a consistency among the big late-night shows. Not only are all the hosts white, the vast majority of their audiences are white. “I think white audiences get a little self-conscious if race comes up,” Mr. Sweeney of Mr. O’Brien’s show said.

Things might be somewhat different if even one late-night host was black. Black comics are not having any trouble joking about Mr. Obama, said David Alan Grier, a comedian who, starting in October, will have a satirical news magazine show on Comedy Central, “Chocolate News.”

“I tell jokes on stage about him,” Mr. Grier said, reciting a few that would not ever get onto a network late-night show (nor into this newspaper).

But he said of the late-night hosts, “Those guys really can’t go there. It’s just like the gay comic can do gay material. It comes with the territory.” Still, he said, he has no sympathy for the hosts. “No way. They’ve had 200 years of presidential jokes. It’s our time.”

Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the ABC late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” said of Mr. Obama, “There’s a weird reverse racism going on. You can’t joke about him because he’s half-white. It’s silly. I think it’s more a problem because he’s so polished, he doesn’t seem to have any flaws.”

Mr. Maher said that being sensitive to Mr. Obama was in no way interfering with his commentary, though on HBO he has more freedom about content than other comedians. “There’s been this question about whether he’s black enough,” Mr. Maher said. “I have this joke: What does he have to do? Dunk? He bowled a 37 — to me, that’s black enough.”

Mr. Kimmel said, “His ears should be the focus of the jokes.”

Mostly the late-night shows seem to be in a similar position.

Mr. Burnett of the Letterman show said, “We can’t manufacture a perception. If the perception isn’t true, no one will laugh at it.”

Mr. Sweeney said, “We’re hoping he picks an idiot as vice president.”

Richard Pérez-Peña and Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting.

Maybe. But McCain gained 6 points since I last checked about a week ago.

They always say they’re leaving, but they never go. How can we miss you if you won’t go away?

judd — the Obama’s children are not our responsibility. Who asked for Obama to run? This was his decision and those are his kids. Get off your high horse please.

Paul. This isn’t a football game. It’s more like physics, it’s Newton’s law of cause and effect. In spite of msn efforts, the longer the primary went on, the more people say of Hillary the more they liked her. The more they see of Obama, the less they like what they saw. It’s not a cartoon in The New Yorker. It’s FISA, it’s Public Financing. it’s the lies and the arrogance. Understanding Hillary is real and he is a fraud.

You have to hand it to bush though. They were rough on him and he is known as a petulant person, but even he didn’t react to things like boohoobama.

I think taking yourself too seriously makes you look like a buffoon.

Here’s the problem with affirmative action. It can get people who are only marginaaly qualified into a lot of good places, but it can’t get you respect if you are floundering around and have no clue what you are doing. That’s where bo is in life. Everything has been handed to him and he does not realize he’s out in the real world now, where most of us don’t think he’s just so cute and precious. He may be a chicago pol, but he’s outclassed. The big dogs are gonna chew him up.

To do a double-take on every single article, cartoon, report must get quite tedious.
I recommend to BHO and his worshippers to “get over it” ~ sound familiar?
It is called vetting. Too bad this is the first real taste of it for BHO and the Obots.

Middle America doesn’t want a prez who has to look everything over twice for content.

exactly!

where are the protesters and marches against the Rezko and Davis slums?

any more news about the toddler that was recently killed in one of the slums?

Baracktrack has blood on his hands…

who will speak up for the poor that Obama has shafted in his own district?

obama has no shame…

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

Why is it that Americans seem genetically disposed NOT to be able to grasp satire or irony in any form?

Ha ha ha. I bet she does.

I think, Doc, that they’re talking about Obama’s peaking too soon for the general election. Hillary didn’t peak too soon, she finished 670,000 primary votes greater than did dork from Marh 3rd on.

I like your new nickname.

Very well said, Elise. I totally agree and your analogy is a great one.

Bush has been regularly caricatured as a chimp for years. Obama is running for POTUS, not dog catcher (now that would make for a funny cartoon). He needs either to grow a thicker skin, or to take his ball and go home. The latter choice would be more than fine with me.

The reaction on the blogs, especially Huff and Kos, is waaaaay over the top. This is the one article I’ve read that makes the most sense.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/07/15/new_yorker_cartoon/

Rev. Wright, BO, and that whole hate-monger Nation of Islam church that honors Farrakhan. Here is a sample of that hate-spew. You think comparing this man to Hitler is over the top?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/456363/khallid_muhammads_speech_kill_the_white_man/

“that cover is making fun of this site and community yet you idiots like it”

Yet YOU Obamabots are offended by it. Even though the artist supposedly meant to insult this site.

So you’re MUCH GREATER idiots for being offended! And we’re amused by your VAST stupidity.

The “Hillary camp” is feeling vindicated now.

Poetic justice.

The reason most people can’t appreciate the satire intended is because parts of it are really exaggeration that touches too close to the truth. It may be a bit over the top but that is what satire is. We know Michelle is not advocating violence and Obama is not Muslim. But the unintended exaggerated symbolism is there.

The burning flag was especially symbolic, considering everything Obama has done during the primary and with the FISA vote.

The militant Michelle is an exaggeration of her attitudes towards America and the bitterness she can’t seem to keep hidden.

The Obama garb is an exaggeration of his remarks about why 911 happened, etc.

I don’t get the satire or irony in the Bin Laden portrait. That was just plain dumb.

I understand why the Obamas and their followers are outraged. I’m not sure they really understand why.
And I agree with many others – where was the outrage when this was done to Hillary many, many times.

Self-deprecation is not a trait of the narcissist

The joke is on the Obama supporters’ dumb asses!

WE KNOW the cartoon was intended to bash those who aren’t voting for Obama. So WE’RE supposed to be the ones offended by the cartoon!

Instead….

YOU dummies are angry about the cartoon!!

LMAO!!!

WE don’t give a damn about the “elites” in the MSM and in the Democratic party mocking the “bitter, gun totin’ dead-ender” Hillary supporters! We’re not impressed by those clowns. YOU ARE!

The Obamabots are the ones cutting their OWN throats with Hillary supporters by continuing to mock & bash us every chance you get! Don’t you think that’s just a tad bit foolish – considering that WE have the votes and money that Obama needs to win in November?

God bless ‘em. Obamabots just don’t get it.

Hillary supporters ALREADY LOST when she was cheated out of the Democratic nomination by the DNC. And the candidate the DNC “selected” instead is a poor substitution for the REAL candidate they threw away.

So unless a miracle transpires in late August, Hillary supporters have absolutely NOTHING to lose in this election anymore.

But you do.

The Obama campaign is way too reactionary and sensitive over this issue. If they would have taken it as humor and brushed it aside, most of us would have as well. Leadership sets an example, another weak one from the Obama campaign. Perhaps leading a boy scout troop is more Obama’s league than the leader of the most power nation in the world.

I think this may just be another falling on the sword by the Obamaniac left. A lot of people appear willing to be thrown under the bus for the Golden One, who desperately needs a diversion from his multiple flip-flops and refusal to present a valid birth certificate. This cartoon is no different from any other political one, except that there are so few that dare to lampoon the Great Black Hope. If, for instance, the left had created a cartoon with McCain collaborating with the North Vietnamese, there would be little outcry over it. And this uproar, like most others involving BO, will not help him. It will just convince the majority of voters that he will stop at nothing to play the victim. And most people want a hero, not a woose, as Prez.

I can’t see what all the fuss is about. When I saw this cover I just about fell off my chair I laughed so hard. But then I am just a ‘Krazy Kanadian Konservative’ coz I saw through Obama as early as February. And I thought Canada was a Fascist State. I gotta tell you all, if Obama is voted in, Canada is going to look mighty fine come January…

The beautiful thing about “satire” is that it has some element of truth. The cover is how Americans see Michelle and Barack Obama. Whose fault is that? They’ve portrayed–betrayed–themselves repeatedly as immature adolescents pretending to the throne of leadership. They aren’t serious, mature adults. That’s why the political cartoon on the cover is so appropriately ironic to me.

Fist-bumping, JayZ brush offs, HO jokes at fundraisers, “99 problems but a bitch ain’t one” played at rallies, and arguments that because he lived in Indonesia for 3 years as a child, he’s got more foreign policy experience than Clinton…

And:

“I’m just messin’ with you, man!”

MO has a “secret weapon,” too. HA HA.

Heh.

I read the article by Ryan Lizza (who is an ardent Obama fan according to his TV commentary). Although it went easy on him for the most part, it did also reveal him to be a shameless manipulator who has loyalty to no one and is willing to toss aside all comers whenever convenient — what else is new!

Thank you, little bits of true information and honest observation are what build our resolve to take a stand.

I think it’s incredibly insulting to holocaust survivors…who were innocent victims of evil and madness, to equate that cover with Hitler and the ovens.

I agree. That line struck me as being way over the top.

But then again, that is the typical Obama camp reaction to anything remotely critical of him.

SATIRE AND THE CITY

There’s a wonderful episode of Sex and the City, when vainglorious writer, that aficionado of sex and the New York City life, Carrie Bradshaw, finds herself on the cover of New York Magazine looking worn and anything but glorious the words: ”Single and Fabulous?” plastered above the thirty-something’s shop-worn face.

Bradshaw had been duped by the magazine’s publishers who had told her the title of the article was to be Single and Fabulous…exclamation point, not question mark. Big difference.

Bradshaw and the four girlfriends around whose lives Sex and the City revolves act like the cover is nothing but an affront to their lives as single women to each other in the scene following Bradshaw’s discovery of self as satirical cover art. Later in the episode, each of the women proceed to act out the emotional question marks of their lives. It wasn’t pretty.

The message the magazine piece explored was anything but subtle but certainly satirical, the cover forcing four women, if not all those single women caught in their own ironic lives who watched the episode, do what a good magazine piece does: think, ponder, and yes, question.

That’s what good satire does. And certainly that is what honest satire as defined by the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc., according to that purveyor of honest definition, Dictionary.com ought to do.

In the Sex and the City episode, the writers were satirizing the new American culture.
This week, another New York magazine, The New Yorker, is taking a satirical look at political candidate Barack Obama. The New Yorker, long a leader in the arena of the satirical is being lambasted for its cover art designed by Barry Blitt depicting Obama and his wife Michelle, he in a turban, she as a fist-bumping, gun-slinging wife, a big portrait of Osama Bin Laden over their mantelpiece, in the fireplace a burning American flag.

The image is an amalgamation of all the right-wing’s attacks on the first African-American presidential nominee, the guy with the Muslim-sounding name, who has at times refused to wear an American flag on his lapel, and whose wife has made some comments even Barack Obama wishes he could forget.

Asked how he feels about the controversy surrounding his cover, Blitt responded, “I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous. It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.”

Now satire has long been a tool of political criticism. The identifiably American form of humor emerged in the late Colonial era. Benjamin Franklin published essays in the NEW ENGLAND COURANT that were widely read and acclaimed for their satire, and his POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK (1733-1758) became famous for its brilliance. Samuel L. Clemens, aka Mark Twain, blended wit and political criticism. In the Twentieth Century there was the great Will Rogers, and, of course Lenny Bruce. America recently lost George Carlin, but still has satirists Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. But let’s not forget Obama’s hometown Chicago’s Second City, the National Lampoon, and the myriad political cartoonists who use their pen as sword poking fun at our politicians in our newspapers across America every day.

So why is Barack Obama and company so outraged by The New Yorker cover that his campaign quickly condemned the rendering with Spokesman Bill Burton saying in a statement: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create? But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

And why did John McCain’s press secretary issue a similar statement condemning the cover, as well as a barrage of ipso facto statements of horror coming from the left and right wing bloggers?
What makes The New Yorker cover anymore incendiary than any other of their satirical covers? Satire is not for the faint of heart. It was never meant to be.

Well, no satire here. Just plain truth: the statement from the Obama campaign was a brilliant attempt to play the victim of racism card and shore up its liberal base recently retreating from its candidate when he, in a not so subtle way, moved his positions to the center.

Those writers on the left have long been the victim of racial guilt.

The right and candidate John McCain want to be careful not to be boxed into being seen as racist as Senator Obama’s campaign so ably boxed in Hillary and Bill Clinton.

By the way, the cover of the issue is aptly titled “The Politics of Fear.”

American’s should be afraid, very afraid, when they lose their sense of humor.

Halli Casser-Jayne
http:///thecjpoliticalreport.com

How would a cartoon showing Hitler killing Jews make fun of anti-semities? Hitler DID kill Jews! Does this mean that BO and MO are really as presented?

If this New Yorker cover art depicted Uhuru Kibaki and his wife Lucy, the average person would look at it and assume that these two must be terrorists. Why? Because they don’t have any other information to go on, they don’t know anything about the Kibakis.
Maybe that’s the problem with this illustration of the Obamas. We don’t have enough information about who Barack really is to laugh at the satirical message the artist was trying to convey.
Obama needs to release his original birth certificate, marriage license, school records and declassify his passport information. Obama needs to be the transparent candidate he promised. Until documented facts are presented these rumor will continue.

Yes, he’ll be ready to lead when he puts down the Kleenex and stops whining. Right. The man has no experience – and no resilience. He’s flattened by a G.D. cartoon.

The new book coming out, Obama Unmasked, apparently focuses on his Muslim upbringing a lot.

It will add fuel to the fire, for sure.

I personally am not interested in his religious background. I thought his choice of church and mentor was plenty in terms of deciding what type of man he is and how he operates.

Who would do anything so gross as to create a cartoon of Hitler killing Jews? Where did U see that? What?

This Nation of Islam person is called America’s Hitler. Because he spews hatred. He wants to kill Whites and White babies, etc, the same way Hitler wanted to kill Jewish people. I guess because he feels Whites are responsible for all the misery in the world, the same as Hitler felt the Jews were.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/456363/khallid_muhammads_speech_kill_the_white_man/

The leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, is HONORED and AWARDED in Wright’s hate church, and he feels the same way about White people. I think BO and his wife have similar feelings towards White people. And this kind of hatred is unacceptable for someone running for POTUS.

Click the link and listen to the hate speech.

I may not know what Satire is (A columnist?) but I know what is funny. The heads exploding over at the Great Orange Cheetoh blog.

If he’s going to take his ball(s) and go home, he better hurry up before Jesse catches him!

This cartoon is no different from any other political one, except that there are so few that dare to lampoon the Great Black Hope.

The Obamabots’ hysterical reaction to this New Yorker cover art is so reminiscent of some Muslims reaction to the Danish cartoons depicting their Prophet, Mohammad. Few dare risk the wrath of the obama machine by depicting the Great One in a light that might be perceived as the least bit negative!
This speaks volumes for the world we will live in if obama gets the nomination.

Totally agreed. After all, wasn’t it Obama who said to a crowd with a wink and a laugh:

“They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?

He’s got a feisty wife.”

The same people who are outraged over this were laughing their asses off at the repulsive garbage directed at Hillary, but that was just pussy hate, not Racism. CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER.

And are these same people equally disgusted at Bernie Mac’s “ho” moment?

Nope.

Fuck the whole sorry mess.

Now that is sexist, mahaska, you need to find a more honest reason for brazile, there are plenty out there, racism, envy, sleeping with the enemy, self interest, mob mentality, back room money grabbing etc.

I’s like that Denmark/Mohammed Cartoon satire american-style.
It’s satire! Did the New Yorker offend their God?

I liked the cover, I thought it was smart and provocative.

The news claims “it’s failing” but it’s really about selling magazines so I guess it depends on how many issues are flying off the shelf.

I am concerned about the culture and attitude we are creating that would aim to silence a mag like this for it’s free speech. Seriously, I’ve read comments from people that want the editors charged with hate crimes and sent to jail for 20 years. There’s another comments section where they’re trying to figure out how to shut down the New Yorker and drive them out of business. Somebody said Obama should send the DOJ and the IRS after them. For crying out loud he isn’t even president yet, and besides, aren’t we trying to get rid of a president who did things like that?

Think about the poor Bush children too.
Satire should be banned because people breed?

man, you people are crazy. get over it. Obama won, clinton lost and the usa is better for it. she would have destroyed this country even more than bush has.

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Obama has won nothing. He’s not even the nominee yet.

“Barky” may have worn that get up, but politicians around the world wear traditional, local garb when they go abroad. There are photos of Hilliary Clinton, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton in some pretty colorful local attire from their years as public servants.

The joke here — the one that Blitt is making on the cover of The New Yorker — is that there are people who honestly believe that Barack Obama donned “that get up” to show some sort of Muslim loyalty.

Those people are the ones being lampooned.

You go ahead and believe all you want that Barack Obama wore the outfit in question because of some secret Muslim loyalties if you wish. It’s a free country.

I will choose to believe not just what I see with my own eyes — Barack Obama in “native” gear — but what I see with my own eyes in conjunction with what I know of how politics and the world work.

You go ahead and be the people that Blitt is lampooning if you wish. As I said, It’s a free country. For now.

No, you special little guy. I’m just pointing out the obvious psychotic lie of the commenter who wrote that nobody “ever once came to the defense of Hillary Clinton.”

The truth?
You can’t satirize Obama because he will play the race card.
Anyone spoofing him will forever have an R branded on his forehead.
Not one news commentator has the balls to say that the New Yorker was only spoofing.
God help anyone who stands up and defends that fine magazine.

That is, indeed, the real Donna Brazile. She blogged today at CNN about her interactions at No Quarter.

That’s how she does “nice”? Hillary’s kitchen-sink attacks are what set the low standard of behavior, ethics and language for this site.

And she still couldn’t get the job done. I mean, people love and respect the Clintons that much!

Maybe that is why Obama wants to have a rally in Germany. My thoughts exactly… Obama like Hitler was just a good speaker… and look what happened.

promise?
good bye troll

Your homophobia offends me.

Besides, I’ll stick with my Monica Lewinsky blow-up doll, thank you very much.

Obama’s father was muslim…right? His family in Kenya are muslim…right? Obama has a muslim name that he chose to use after using barry sorento …right? Michelle Obama with BO went to a “afro-centric” black liberation theology church… right? Michelle Obama’s thesis in college went along with the black power movement… right? The Obamas do the fist bump…right? Their friends have been seen stomping on the flag…right?
Aren’t these facts?
Don’t tell me I have no reason to see any truth in this cartoon. Obama was born to a muslim man so when he was born he was a muslim… and then goes to a church friendly with the Nation of Islam.
To suggest I am nutz suggests you haven’t been around for the last year or more!

It’s not like they show him at the Brandenburg Gate with torches and eagle standards with swastikas….

…yet

It is going to get worse. From what I hear, I see America Civil War II occurring. Well, they asked for it. However, no one is going to win this one at all.

On CNN, one of the black analysts named CNN Roland Martin said you need to fight fire with fire. Hmmm! I guess he was not a fireman. To quelch a fire, you need water, not fire.

Fighting fire with fire, creates a larger fire.

Undercover black man,
What you talkin bout fool? THE CARTOON SUCCEEDED. IT IS RIGHT ON TARGET IN EVERYWAY RIGHT DOWN TO THE FLAG BURNING AND THE SIMILARITY OF OBAMA’S NAME TO OSAMA’S NAME.
YOU CAN SEE OSAMA SMILING DOWN ON OBAMA FROM ABOVE THE AMERICAN FLAG BURNING IN THE FIREPLACE. HOW APPROPRIATE, BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA WANT TO DESTROY AMERICAN AND WOULD IF THEY COULD, but they can’t now can they?
Too many of us are standing tall to prevent that from happening. I APPLAUD THE WORK OF THE NEW YORKER AND I WILL BE SUBSCRIBING TO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME.

“and the hand thing the two of them do is real too.”

I swear, some of you flyover-state idiots need to get out more.
I guess the entire population under 30 in California is guilty of giving dap as well.

But…Hillary does have a huge penis. No, seriously. I swear.

Unfortunately logic is something lost on the “vast majority” of idiots on this blog.

You are on this blog. Are you one of the majority idiots or are you one the minority idiots upon which logic is not lost? Perhaps you think that you are not an idiot.

Your claim appears to be based on your sense that you are intellectually adept, but there is little evidence of this in the above posts, which engage in insults that lack wit. I think it likely that you have some post-secondary education, which gives you a sense of intellectual superiority. In saying this I mean to invoke the axiom, that a little bit of education can be a bad thing, specifically if it leads one to feel the need to evangelize the revealed truth to the great unwashed, who you like to characterize as idiots.

You use your learning to belittle. Is “belittle the idiots” the Obama supporter creed?

BOO FRICKEN’ HOO! It was always fine to talk about Hillary’s ankles, her voice, her pantsuits, Chelsea, etc. Did you ever complain about that? What goes around comes around.

Judd: This is a standard New Yorker satirical cartoon. Why the pity for the Obama children? Obama is the one who has asked that kids be brought into politics with his Kids for Obama. Obviously, he and Michelle are thinking only of themselves otherwise they would have protected their children from the media instead of having them interviewed on Access Hollywood. The fact that they’re willing to use other people’s children to further their goals shows they are not naive babes in the political forest. In fact, the Obama’s are attempting to brand themselves with the children of their supporters. Why would a man who can run only twice for POTUS brand children under 10 with the Obama seal is a better question. What is his interest in creating this “Obama Youth”? Please take a shot at that question instead of sucking your thumb over the consequences of the Obamas abuse of their own children.

After years of subscribing to The New Yorker, I unsubscribed when the writers week after week slobbered over BO and kicked Senator Clinton to the curb. That got Remnick’s attention, I suppose, because when BO and MO made the cover, he wrote me to say, “This one’s for you, Sally.”

Just messin’ with you, folks. But I did love that cover and what it promised which is turning out to be more than I could have imagined.

Wow–black people and Muslim stereotypes on the same cover–didn’t the magazine undertand that they can’t swim in those waters with that most elite of literary genres–satire? Are they that insulated from the rest of us?

I totally agree with karen and joel above. it’s satire and they have gotten a pass all along. so what’s a little humor. like obama said ‘get over it’ to the clinton supporters. laugh a little or a lot at the cover page of the obamas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/jon-stewart-takes-on-medi_n_113025.html

Excellent job by Jon Stewart last night…Well done.

People are beginning to forget what is included in the Bill of Rights-especially where our media is concerned.

Did I hear anyone at The New Yorker magazine yell “FIRE!!!!” in a crowded theater?

No.

I have just begun a subscription the The New Yorker magazine.

Read the article the accompanies this cover. Why isn;t the Obama campaign refuting the contents of the article? Why…because they can’t…It’s all true.

People…WE DO HAVE CHOICES IN NOVEMBER…
Support EACH of these candidates now (send $, sign petitions etc…) even though you can only choose 1 in November.

These voices need to be heard…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUq2VmHHrqg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYNRkoOxRc

http://democratsforrealchange.info/

http://www.swans.com/library/art14/ga251.html

That’s easy: Fly-over Country