Has Anyone Seen This New Yorker Cover ?

[SlingBlade]

"The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news." The cover illustration (by Barry Blitt) of the magazine's July 21st. issue depicts Barack Obama in tribal African dress, fist-bumping his wife "in full revolutionary garb, an enormous afro making her look like a millennial Angela Davis, holding an automatic weapon and wearing military pants" in the Oval Office. On the wall -- a portrait of Osama bin Laden; in the fireplace a burning American flag.

http://www.metafilter.com/73282/The-Politics-of-Fear


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So, How about ideas's for the New Yorkers next Cover photo

McCain in a Nazi S.S Uniform, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bombing Iran for instance.

[racaulk]

1. Has anyone seen it?

:rofl:

[kenny blankenship]

7. Just saw it on CNN

[mainegreen]

19. I know.

Funny in the way only DU can be funny sometimes, isn't it?

:rofl:

[Richardo]

2. Did you just get out of bed?

:shrug:

[TexasObserver]

25. I think you mean "wake up from a coma"

I mean, there's been what? 150 threads on it?

[PeaceNikki]

3. OMFG!! How have I not heard of this!?!?

SHoCK!! HoRrOR!!

[librechik]

16. did you miss the 35 or so threads on it in GD?

first time I've actually seen the thing. It's a joke. Let's agree to get over it, and insist they do McCain and wife next.

[PeaceNikki]

23. I was actually

joking.

[librechik]

31. sorry for the snark-temporary fugue state

at least I hope it's temporary

[underseasurveyor]

You must have dial-up

MMmmm yea you could say we've seen it........ A LOT.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. May I suggest

you take yourself right over to GD-P and see if anyone has seen it.

:rofl:

[billyoc]

5. No, I hadn't seen it, I LOVE it!!

I always liked Gilda Radner and Dan Ackroyd.

[racaulk]

8. !

:spray:

That's a DUzy, right there! Thanks for making my afternoon! :thumbsup:

[notadmblnd]

6. only a hundred times, here alone; since yesterday afternoon

:boring:

[devilgrrl]

9. Yes, I've seen it - great satire isn't it? Too bad so many are too dimwitted to "get it"

:popcorn:

[Skittles]

32. once again

lots of us GET IT; we still think it SUCKS - are you too dimwitted to get THAT?

[devilgrrl]

34. I didn't know you thought it was crap - now that I think about it. They could have done better.

:shrug:

[Skittles]

35. thanks

it's just that I'm getting tired of a recurring meme of too many DUers that people either "get it" and love it or "don't get it" and hate it. LOTS of us GET IT and think it sucks!!!

[Warpy]

10. The problem with satire

is that the right wing has absolutely no appreciation of it. They will take this cover as fact.

Were we living in a time when a rabid right wing didn't have control of the media and produce this sort of thing as a matter of course and claim it to be factual, there wouldn't be a problem.

Unfortunately, we don't, and that greatly lessens my ability to enjoy an obviously over the top satire of right wing "thought."

[Iris]

30. but the right wing is never going to "get" anything about Obama or the Democrats in general

Just like, god willing, we won't ever "get" Rush Limbaugh and his ilk.

[GreenTea]

11. Disgracful that this same guy should do this to republicans....

[underseasurveyor]

20. AH!1!! They can't be series....

How DARE they!!11!1!!!

[Enrique]

12. I predict this cover will be controversial

[GreenTea]

14. Wow, talk about going out on a limb.

[ZombieHorde]

13. No, I have not seen that. What's on it?

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Has Anyone Seen This New Yorker Cover ?

[BrotherBuzz]

21. Or this cover?

Check the price, it doubled in ten years.

[timtom]

28. Hate to be naive, but

did R. Crumb REALLY do a New Yorker Cover???

He's my fave.

[BrotherBuzz]

29. Yes, I remember all the hoopla when he did the Eustace Tilley contest cover in 1994

The 2004 cover is totally new to me.

[Rex]

17. Stupid idea.

[KitchenWitch]

18. Wow, this is the first I have heard about this - It is not like there have not been 150 threads done

:sarcasm:

[rox63]

22. Have you checked GD:P today

There's a kajillion threads about it.

[exothermic]

24. You didn't notice the Level 5 whine warning?

:shrug:

[taterguy]

26. Apparently not

Thanks for bringing it to our attention

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Yes. It's a great parody of right wing fears that some people refuse to "get".

[Skittles]

33. once again, lots of people GET IT

they just think it SUCKS - the two are not incompatible - unless YOU don't "get it".

[yardwork]

36. Wow. I hadn't seen that or heard anything about it.

I wonder if anyone else will comment?