July 21st cover of the new yorker

[xoxoxoBruce]

Right on, everyone gets to college with significant issues about something. It's commonly about how they fit in the world, for one reason or another.

[classicman]

FWIW Walgreens pulled the New Yorker from all the locations that carried it - nationwide.

[Shawnee123]

That is HUGE for O'Reilly.

[Shawnee123]

Sat-ire? Starts with S-A-T? Hmmm, could it be...SATAN?

[Sundae]

Sorry, I don't know who he is and didn't realise it was a satirical radio phone in. My bad.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Sorry, I don't know who he is and didn't realise it was a satirical radio phone in. My bad.

It's not, I was yanking yer chain. I think it was just a figure of speech used out of contex. In other words, a poor choice of words.

[Sundae]

Argh! Pick on the furriner day!
(thanks for admitting it - I would have been none the wiser)

[Shawnee123]

@ t-dub:

OK, maybe it wasn't so much that it was tasteless as it was that it is stupid, boring, meaningless, sensationalistic, and lent a bit of credence to the wackos. Yeah, we get it. Many don't.

Oh, and I do find Rush et al offensive. Absolutely they have every right to be so, as the New Yorker has every right to be stupid. Sometimes, you just hope for better, ya know?

[BigV]

tw, I don't know what to say to you.

Your posts are hard to follow, but I'll say this.

I find this cartoon tasteless and offensive. Other hateful slurs, regardless of the subject or the speaker also offend me. I have a limited amount of energy and ability to counter such crap, but I do my best.

You may judge me, but don't put words in my mouth. We won't have much of a conversation if you're doing all the talking.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by BigV

tw, I don't know what to say to you.

Your posts are hard to follow, but I'll say this.

I find this cartoon tasteless and offensive. Other hateful slurs, regardless of the subject or the speaker also offend me. I have a limited amount of energy and ability to counter such crap, but I do my best.

I would agree with you 100%.

[tw]

Originally Posted by BigV

I find this cartoon tasteless and offensive.

No cartoon can be sufficiently tasteless because of the subject. Subject is wacko extremists who hype these lies to others; who then blindly believe these myths. Accusations by right wing wackos are no different than brown shirts being told that Jews are vermin. Also proven because their 'Rush Limbaughs' told them it was so. A satire showing all the myths about Jews also would have mocked the liars - Nazis and their brown shirts. Instead, the world ignored those myths rather than satirize them.

Satire should exist on the front cover of every responsible magazine because these wacko extremists’ myths are that tasteless and dangerous. We cannot satirize how tasteless wacko extremists because they are dumb? Those with taste post satire with vengeance because - well how many good America lives are being wasted uselessly on another wacko right wing extremist lie - Saddam's WMDs. Satire about people such as TheMercenary could never be sufficiently tasteless. We should also see satire about what TheMercenary, et al will not ask; what every decent person asks: "When do we go after bin Laden."

Even bin Laden remains free because wacko extremists need him to promote their myths. The New Yorker can only be praised for showing that wacko extremists (including Rove) are that tasteless. New Yorker is praised for satirizing the problem - wacko extremists and their myths.

What makes the New Yorker cover so patriotic and wonderful? It is hilarious - and reality - and honest - and also called a summary of the news. As posted here, many non-Americans don't even kow how American are bombarded routinely with evil French and evil Nigerian, and evil Vietnamese, and evil Chinese, and evil Al Jezzera ... Tasteless hate by those who also invent these Obama myths is daily on American radio.

Without such mockery of wacko extremists, well, what do these same wacko extremists also want? War in Iran.

Did you read that Esquire magazine (Mar 2008?) article about Adm Fallon - former Central Command commander? He says he averted a 'Pearl Harbor' type attack on Iran. If we were that close to war, then the New Yorker magazine cover (that mocks these people like TheMercenary) is wonderful. Without satire about these tastelss people, then even an Iranian war becomes possibile. That New Yorker comic is not about Obama. It is about those who are America's greatest threat: wacko extremists who love more war and who even invented and promoted those Obama myths. The New Yorker did not mock tasteless people enough.

Who are most offended by that New Yorker comic? Wacko extremists.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by tw

Who are most offended by that New Yorker comic? Wacko extremists.

Now, now, BigV is not a wacko extremist... just a mite serious.

[Undertoad]

o no they've started

[Sundae]

WTF?!

[classicman]

All this attention to an inappropriate cover on a magazine that at best reaches 1,000,000 people has made more of this than anything. Are they "wacko extremists" at The New Yorker - I don't think so. Has their cover altered my perception of Obama? No!
I believe the vast majority of those who read that mag understand it was nothing more than it was - a stupid cover - ill-advised, inappropriate and distasteful. Let the damn thing die.

All the media attention to this and the real "wacko extremists" who pontificate here and elsewhere about it are the ones that are making a bigger issue out of it than anything. It has nothing to do with a grand conspiracy or Iran or anything else. It was a bad decision to publish it - and I hope they lose readers because of it. Yes, they got a lot of play out of it in the short term, but liong term it will not help them.