Comments on: New Yorker Obama cover: “Tasteless and offensive” http://polizeros.com/2008/07/14/new-yorker-obama-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2008/07/14/new-yorker-obama-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/comment-page-1/#comment-153976 DJ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:51:10 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12147#comment-153976 "Who cares what they think?" Yeah, that's what they say about you, too. It's called polarization, and it appears that the New Yorker is promoting it. "If you don’t like it, don’t read the New Yorker." I don't. And I'm less likely to than ever. “Who cares what they think?”

Yeah, that’s what they say about you, too. It’s called polarization, and it appears that the New Yorker is promoting it.

“If you don’t like it, don’t read the New Yorker.”

I don’t. And I’m less likely to than ever.

]]> By: RWB http://polizeros.com/2008/07/14/new-yorker-obama-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/comment-page-1/#comment-153929 RWB Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:02:26 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12147#comment-153929 DJ on 14 Jul 2008 at 7:20 am # I doubt the right wing notices it’s being lampooned– I bet they feel a sense of validation. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Who cares what they think? They are going to hate Obama no matter what. The New Yorker's readership (and I include myself) are people who realize (I hope) that this cover is a mockery of those guys. Jeez. It's a cartoon. If you don't like it, don't read the New Yorker. This tempest in a teapot makes Obama and his supporters (and I am one) look thin-skinned and fretful. DJ on 14 Jul 2008 at 7:20 am #

I doubt the right wing notices it’s being lampooned– I bet they feel a sense of validation.
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Who cares what they think? They are going to hate Obama no matter what. The New Yorker’s readership (and I include myself) are people who realize (I hope) that this cover is a mockery of those guys.

Jeez. It’s a cartoon. If you don’t like it, don’t read the New Yorker. This tempest in a teapot makes Obama and his supporters (and I am one) look thin-skinned and fretful.

]]> By: Robert Murdoch http://polizeros.com/2008/07/14/new-yorker-obama-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/comment-page-1/#comment-153921 Robert Murdoch Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:21:15 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12147#comment-153921 Let them know what you think: themail@newyorker.com fiction@newyorker.com, talkofthetown@newyorker.com, shouts@newyorker.com, poetry@newyorker.com, newsbreaks@newyorker.com, captioncontest@newyorker.com, subscriptions@newyorker.com, maria_tenaglia@newyorker.com, Larissa_MacFarquhar@newyorker.com, Lawrence_Wright@newyorker.com, reddicious@newyorker.com, jacob_lewis@newyorker.com, david_remnick@newyorker.com, terese_cunningham@newyorker.com, anita_raokeech@newyorker.com, norman_miller@newyorker.com, melissa_smith@newyorker.com, connor_o'gara@newyorker.com, marii_sebahar@newyorker.com, ed_amstutz@newyorker.com, cookman_campbell@newyorker.com, patti_chapman@newyorker.com Let them know what you think:

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]]> By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2008/07/14/new-yorker-obama-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/comment-page-1/#comment-153920 DJ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:20:52 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12147#comment-153920 I doubt the right wing notices it's being lampooned-- I bet they feel a sense of validation. I doubt the right wing notices it’s being lampooned– I bet they feel a sense of validation.

]]> By: RWB http://polizeros.com/2008/07/14/new-yorker-obama-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/comment-page-1/#comment-153915 RWB Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:26:49 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12147#comment-153915 Maybe they were thinking that it would be obvious that they were making fun of the right-wing's paranoid fantasies about the Obamas. It was obvious to me. Get a grip. How did it get to the point where virtually every statement about or by a political candidate that someone (of any political stripe) makes is "outrageous" or "offensive"? The fact that you can't (or won't) understand the point of this cover--specifically that the butt of the joke is the right wing--is pathetic. Maybe they were thinking that it would be obvious that they were making fun of the right-wing’s paranoid fantasies about the Obamas. It was obvious to me. Get a grip. How did it get to the point where virtually every statement about or by a political candidate that someone (of any political stripe) makes is “outrageous” or “offensive”? The fact that you can’t (or won’t) understand the point of this cover–specifically that the butt of the joke is the right wing–is pathetic.

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