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07-14-2008, 03:30 PM | #1 |
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That looks like Roxie Roker, the woman who played Hellen Willis in The Jeffersons. She is also the mother of Lenny Kravitz.
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The New Yorker apparently intended the cover to be satirical. Said the editors, it "satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign."
LOL. So this is their best shot at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. LOL. Good job, guys.
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Thing is, the New Yorker is taking heat from the left, including Obama himself. Perhaps they should have drawn the picture in a thought bubble coming from McCain . . . But then that would have been too obvious and clunky visually. Plus it would have angered McCain too; but the point is that this cover should still make McCain mad b/c it's a comment on the scare tactics the New Yorker thinks he'll use to win the White House.
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It was a truly foolish move by the New Yorker editorial staff, as only regular New Yorker readers will "get" the cover. But I think it's hilarious. Probably the staff would have been better off running two covers, one a cartoon of McCain, and one of Obama. Then at least there would be equal misinterpretation.
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I think you have to go even further to the right than FoxNews and Limbaugh, and to the Internet, to find serious espousement of these views. And this is where the New Yorker is being especially crafty: it is hoisting an ugly smear onto the group known as McCain supporters.
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Yeah, that was a real insightful observation. Obviously you didn't bother to actually spend more than 5 seconds to divine the New Yorker's stated purpose for the cover and think about what the real political fallout from the cover will be.
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