New Yorker cartoon--satire or insult?

[Doreen Peri]

It would fit for the cover of National Lampoon or Mad Magazine, yes.

The New Yorker is being very irresponsible by publishing that cover.

If they felt so compelled to use the cover to make a point, then adding a caption, "Some people believe the most ridiculous lies" might have helped.

Even then, though, for the New Yorker? Distasteful.

[stilltrucking]

LR wrote:

this whole tempest in a teapot

Ten four tempest in a tea pot
THat is why I enjoy The Poet's Eye
That guy sticks to the serious issues like lapel pins.

"Oh my white brother" firesign theatre

Screw this thread.

[stilltrucking]

did i just shoot the messenger

sorry

And I promised myself i would not get sucked in to this subject

Clay the coverage is about the only redeeming part of it.

Or maybe not


The biggest blunder Obama made on this was to issue a statement condeming it
he should have taken the high road.
Well that is what I heard a guy from Rolling Stone say.

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[Doreen Peri]

Did he say something? I'm glad he said something!

Now I have to do a search to find out what he said.

[stilltrucking]

Doreen P
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The New Yorker is being very irresponsible by publishing that cover.

There it is


out of here

[stilltrucking]

missed your reply d
i was posting while you were.
I heard a sound bye last night aboot his statement on the PBS News Hour.

I seemed have developed a Canadian accent

[Doreen Peri]

I just googled it... and all I found what a campaign spokesperson said

"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."

I haven't found any statement Obama made himself yet.

[stilltrucking]

Right. I heard wrong, it was someone on his campaign staff. when asked about it Obama shrugged his shoulders and said "I have no response to that." I was going with what one of the talking heads said.




The dude is

[Doreen Peri]

Oh ok. Thanks! I'll stop looking.

[stilltrucking]

DP, I am not going to look any more, not going to give this a minute more of my time, going to bake a pie.

Oh wait you used a winkie, I guess that means you got better things to do too.

Clay the damage is done, that picture going to be smeared around good.



The editor is an idiot. He is still defending the article. He thinks he did good a good deed. Talk about a lack of imagination.

I wish the hell you could vote compadre.

[Doreen Peri]

You answered my question. So I stopped looking.

[Doreen Peri]

I was listening to some talk on the radio about it and some think it's all good because it is causing conversations and the idiot people who believe that nonsense will learn the truth finally.

Who knows. Maybe that's true.

I still think it's in poor taste.

[stilltrucking]

I doubt if the bear will ever read the new yorker to find out what it was about. I am still not sure I have convinced him that Obama is not a muslim. The same folks who put out the John Kerry Purple Heart band aids at the republican convention are going to have a ball with that picture.

But I hope you are right about the truth coming out.,
And I hope two pounds of peaches R enough for a pie.

[Doreen Peri]

2 pounds of peaches is plenty for a peach pie.... yum! email me a slice, wouldya?

who the heck is "the bear"?

[mtmynd]

big peach pie. best sounding byte on this thread.