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**grinaJanoDant** · 07-17-2008, 01:22 AM

It's stinging satire - a mirror. It's not the Obamas that are being satirized, but us, the electorate (and media) obsessed by the depicted symbolism.

Radical Negroes in the White House. Is that a young Angela Davis?

You wince a little as an Obama supporter, but it's not the magazine's job to protect his image.

True enough and it is certainly their right to satirize we the great unwashed. After all, they are the New Yorker. We're just a bunch of low-brow neanderthals.

Except that when some racist nut job with a gun decides that the Obamas really are facist islamists and decides to take them out, we'll all be the worse for it.

Sure it is their right to print it. But that doesn't mean they should.

07-17-2008, 01:22 AM	#31
grinaJanoDant Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 533 Senior Member	It's stinging satire - a mirror. It's not the Obamas that are being satirized, but us, the electorate (and media) obsessed by the depicted symbolism. Radical Negroes in the White House. Is that a young Angela Davis? You wince a little as an Obama supporter, but it's not the magazine's job to protect his image. True enough and it is certainly their right to satirize we the great unwashed. After all, they are the New Yorker. We're just a bunch of low-brow neanderthals. Except that when some racist nut job with a gun decides that the Obamas really are facist islamists and decides to take them out, we'll all be the worse for it. Sure it is their right to print it. But that doesn't mean they should.
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