A spoof of the New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama as terrorists (By David Horsey). This cartoon shows what would happen if a right wing magazine like the National Review did a similar themed cover of John and Cindy Mccain. In the cartoon, Mccain is a drooling old fool in a wheelchair who is mumbling "bomb bomb bomb Iran" and his wife is popping a bunch of pills (she actually did have a prescription medication drug addiction). In the fireplace, instead of an American flag burning, the constitution is burning. Instead of a portrait of Osama bin Laden, there is a portrait of a Dick Cheney.
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Illustration by David Horsey
Seattle Post Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1792
The thing that seems strange to me is that every time someone tries to do a McCain parody of the now-infamous New Yorker cover, they end up denying the intention and context of the satire that they are parodying. There is essentially nothing in this image that is not an exaggeration, or just a representation, of things that are true about John McCain: he is old, his wife once had a problem with prescription drugs, he is closely aligned with George Bush and he does support policies that violate the Constitution. As a caricature, it works quite well. As a parody of an image that is supposed to be mocking absurd claims about the Obamas, it completely fails...The more of these parodies people produce, the more literally audiences may take the New Yorker image. For all of the people who dismiss the argument that there will be people who won't "get" the satire of the original...polls indicate that a reasonable percentage of Americans still identify Obama as a Muslim, there's no serious, mainstream belief that he and his wife are terrorist collaborators, gun-slinging militants who pal around with mass murderers and villains...but claims that are not far from these do seem to circulate with some considerable frequency...the flag in the fireplace isn't much of an exaggeration at all of various false charges that Obama has no respect for the flag or the Pledge of Allegiance or what-have-you. The hubbub over Obama's "endorsement" by Hamas as some kind of "proof" that he was friendly to Hamas or bad for Israel and the basic assumption shared by many Republicans that leaving Iraq is "surrender" to Al Qaeda (or something like that) aren't exaggerated very much by the picture of Bin Laden...More than perpetuating falsehoods, the New Yorker cover will now be invoked as a defense for every image that depicts Obama unironically as a terrorist and enemy with some remark along these lines: "Hey, this is just like that New Yorker picture, so there's no problem."
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/07/22/someone-doesnt-get-it/
Obama Releases List of Approved Jokes About Himself - Bid to Help Late Night Comics - Saying he is "sympathetic to late night comedians' struggle to find jokes to make about me," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) today issued a list of official campaign-approved Barack Obama jokes.
The five jokes, which Sen. Obama said he is making available to all comedians free of charge, are as follows:
Barack Obama and a kangaroo pull up to a gas station. The gas station attendant takes one look at the kangaroo and says, "You know, we don't get many kangaroos here." Barack Obama replies, "At these prices, I'm not surprised. That's why we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
A traveling salesman knocks on the door of a farmhouse, and much to his surprise, Barack Obama answers the door. The salesman says, "I was expecting the farmer's daughter." Barack Obama replies, "She's not here. The farm was foreclosed on because of subprime loans that are making a mockery of the American Dream."
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?" Barack Obama replies, "His jockey just lost his health insurance, which should be the right of all Americans."
Q: What's black and white and red all over?
Barack Obama: The New Yorker magazine, which should be embarrassed after publishing such a tasteless and offensive cover, which I reject and denounce.
A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, "This joke isn't going to work because there's no Muslim in this boat."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6896
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Your voice is dead DeadHead!
Apsu72 1 year ago
saw a hot chick like this at tiny[dot]cc/lesbian715
DugoreqZozecehy 2 years ago
i think obama should change his logo "change" to "change you will submit to" lol
TheUsMarineSquirell 2 years ago
1 c0ver y0ur m0uth with y0ur hand
2 make a wish int0 it
3 cl0se y0ur hand {make it int0 a fist}
4 h0ld y0ur fist t0 y0ur heart f0r 5 sec.
5 send dis t0 3 m0re vide0s
6 t0m0rr0w will be y0ur best day ever
TheUsMarineSquirell 2 years ago
Now that the Bush conspiracy is in the trash, now begins the Obama conspiracy. Let the bullshit rolled like it did for the past 8 years.
DramaticSoul77 3 years ago
How the BUSH fam TOGETHER WITH the BIN LADEN fam MADE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WITH THEIR CARLYLE GROUP ON THE WARS IN IRAQ, AFGANISTAN... AFTER 9 11...
SEARCH THE VIDEO:
FAHRENHEIT 9 11 CARLYLE GROUP
whateverpall 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure blurting out 'socialism' like robots is the one remaining talking point the right-wing sheep have left...
0lord0kinbote0 3 years ago
Get off the Crack! You are so biased by your own hate liberal bias that you can't even begin to rationally evaluate any serious political discourse. Your dialogue is at the 2nd grade level, short bus version and I'm sooooooooooo scared of your threats--prob too stoned to even know to respond!!!!!
TeachTomCR 3 years ago
B.S.-Teacher-U parrot the biased USA ed.system which gushes NOTHING MORE THAN hero worship in our schoolbooks,leaving out the ruthless,catastrophic deeds of our forefathers.HINT:like OUR CONTINUED GENOCIDE OF INNOCENTS IN iRAQ.Who said socialism?A WORKING 3-BRANCH REPUBLIC is what I want(minus corp.lobbyists, el. college, & Reagan's Rob-onomics).Get Ur head out of Ur ass,Adolf rendered ineffective the other 2 branches of his democracy,just like BusHitler did."Hate-Filled," isway too kind a word.
warhater 3 years ago
k3304--"What good does he do ? Fucking Nothing"
Do you live in a cave? Don't you have a TV set or at least a radio?
Obama did something!! He set out some rules to be abided to in the bailout (rescue) package. No golden umbrella to CEOs, Assist Homeowners facing Foreclosure etc.
You a true republican. Look with your eyes closed. Listen with your ears plugged. You are one-sided in your view. Smarts up...Your comments look assinine & irrelevant!!
librophile 3 years ago