I think its safe to say that Obama wont be subscribing to the New Yorker this year...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080714/pl_politico/11719
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080714/pl_politico/11719
because they were accurate.if this cartoon bothers obama then he is a total pussy...
i've never seen bush cry about any cartoons depicting him..
Because the ones he saw on Mad made him laugh.if this cartoon bothers obama then he is a total pussy...
i've never seen bush cry about any cartoons depicting him..
Because the ones he saw on Mad made him laugh.
The people who would believe that garbage ALREADY believe it. They've been reading it in chain emails for over a year. The same people who think that a Nigerian bureaucrat has 3x the GDP of his country in a frozen account needs their "immediate and pleasurable assistence". Those people don't read the New Yorker.The problem is that it isn't satire, it looks exactly like the image that conservatives are trying to paint. It was horribly, horribly, failed.
I see the problem less to do with the caricature and more that it is on the cover. 99% of people who see it will not open the magazine nor read the article making it extremely easy to to take out of context. The real irony is that the author probably ends up sending the wrong message to most people.The people who would believe that garbage ALREADY believe it. They've been reading it in chain emails for over a year. The same people who think that a Nigerian bureaucrat has 3x the GDP of his country in a frozen account needs their "immediate and pleasurable assistence". Those people don't read the New Yorker.
Taken with the cover article (has anyone even read it?) it has an extremely strong vein of irony and sarcasm, which are supposed to be the hallmarks of satire. The point of satire is to attack something the creator has disdain for.
I didn't think anyone read the New Yorker.fyi: no conservatives will read the New Yorker anyway
I just read it for the pictures.I didn't think anyone read the New Yorker.
"I don't get their cartoons."I didn't think anyone read the New Yorker.
Or you watchI do, sometimes.
I also read The Economist, Backpacker, The Family Handyman, Counterterrorism & Security, and SWAT Magazine.
The clerk at B&N looks at me sideways. It's fun.
..and the LOGO channel for your New Yorker fix..Or you watch
MSNBC, OLN, DIY, and The Military Channel
You should have seen the looks I got when I once bought a Parenting and Nugget magazine at the same time.I do, sometimes.
I also read The Economist, Backpacker, The Family Handyman, Counterterrorism & Security, and SWAT Magazine.
The clerk at B&N looks at me sideways. It's fun.
i'm scared to ask what nugget is about..You should have seen the looks I got when I once bought a Parenting and Nugget magazine at the same time.
I was making collages.
The problem is that it isn't satire, it looks exactly like the image that conservatives are trying to paint. It was horribly, horribly, failed.
no, I get it, it is meant to be satire, but it fell flat.fail^2
yeah, you know, from the amazingly racist right wing puppy-clubbing advocating hate-magazine the New Yorker.
It's an effing joke. You either get it or you don't.
what's the matter, can't take an Obama joke?no, I get it, it is meant to be satire, but it fell flat.
Fixed...so republicans are really "that" easy to cornhole!
And you gave up teaching photography for what reason?It's a failure of satire, because it's given itself no distance at all from the issue it's satirizing.
It's like when I used to teach photography, and the art chicks would "seek to subvert the discourse of pornography by appropriating its form," and produce...pornography.
When I pointed this out, not too subtly, I was not appreciated, but eventually I got the message across. "Look, this picture is raising more issues about your rack than about the functioning of pornography as a cultural discourse..."
And why would he be discouraging the creation of pornography??And you gave up teaching photography for what reason?
The restraining order.And you gave up teaching photography for what reason?