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Archaea · 07-14-2008, 03:30 PM

Tex · 07-14-2008, 03:57 PM

The New Yorker apparently intended the cover to be satirical. Said the editors, it "satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign."

LOL. So this is their best shot at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. LOL.

Good job, guys.

TripletDaddy · 07-14-2008, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

That looks like Roxie Roker, the woman who played Hellen Willis in The Jeffersons. She is also the mother of Lenny Kravitz.

MikeWaters · 07-14-2008, 03:58 PM

New Yorker is the best mag around.

Levin · 07-14-2008, 04:04 PM

Thing is, the New Yorker is taking heat from the left, including Obama himself. Perhaps they should have drawn the picture in a thought bubble coming from McCain . . . But then that would have been too obvious and clunky visually. Plus it would have angered McCain too; but the point is that this cover should still make McCain mad b/c it's a comment on the scare tactics the New Yorker thinks he'll use to win the White House.

Tex · 07-14-2008, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Levin

Thing is, the New Yorker is taking heat from the left, including Obama himself. Perhaps they should have drawn the picture in a thought bubble coming from McCain . . . But then that would have been too obvious and clunky visually. Plus it would have angered McCain too; but the point is that this cover should still make McCain mad b/c it's a comment on the scare tactics the New Yorker thinks he'll use to win the White House.

It isn't/won't be taken that way. That's what's so funny.

BarbaraGordon · 07-14-2008, 04:49 PM

It was a truly foolish move by the New Yorker editorial staff, as only regular New Yorker readers will "get" the cover. But I think it's hilarious. Probably the staff would have been better off running two covers, one a cartoon of McCain, and one of Obama. Then at least there would be equal misinterpretation.

UtahDan · 07-14-2008, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Tex

The New Yorker apparently intended the cover to be satirical. Said the editors, it "satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign."

LOL. So this is their best shot at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. LOL.

Good job, guys.

Now if they could just locate someone actually espousing those views.

Levin · 07-14-2008, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by UtahDan

Now if they could just locate someone actually espousing those views.

I think you have to go even further to the right than FoxNews and Limbaugh, and to the Internet, to find serious espousement of these views. And this is where the New Yorker is being especially crafty: it is hoisting an ugly smear onto the group known as McCain supporters.

Indy Coug · 07-15-2008, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Adam

They are obviously trying to expand their subscription base to moonshine manufacturing, evolution rejecting, racist southerners and Mormons. Maybe it will work--after all, they do have cartoons and the target demographic will never read articles anyway.

Yeah, that was a real insightful observation. Obviously you didn't bother to actually spend more than 5 seconds to divine the New Yorker's stated purpose for the cover and think about what the real political fallout from the cover will be.

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Tex Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8,596	The New Yorker apparently intended the cover to be satirical. Said the editors, it "satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign." LOL. So this is their best shot at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. LOL. Good job, guys. __________________ "Have we been commanded not to call a prophet an insular racist? Link?" "And yes, [2010] is a very good year to be a Democrat. Perhaps the best year in decades ..." - Cali Coug "Oh dear, granny, what a long tail our puss has got." - Brigham Young

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Levin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,484	Thing is, the New Yorker is taking heat from the left, including Obama himself. Perhaps they should have drawn the picture in a thought bubble coming from McCain . . . But then that would have been too obvious and clunky visually. Plus it would have angered McCain too; but the point is that this cover should still make McCain mad b/c it's a comment on the scare tactics the New Yorker thinks he'll use to win the White House. __________________ "Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12

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MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	New Yorker is the best mag around.

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BarbaraGordon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gotham City Posts: 7,157	It was a truly foolish move by the New Yorker editorial staff, as only regular New Yorker readers will "get" the cover. But I think it's hilarious. Probably the staff would have been better off running two covers, one a cartoon of McCain, and one of Obama. Then at least there would be equal misinterpretation.