This comes via Marc Ambinder. It’s amazing that it took this long, but Vanity Fair is spoofing its downstairs neighbor, The New Yorker, with a satirical mock "cover" of its own. For those with extremely short memories, The New Yorker last week ran a controversial cover featuring a robe and turban-clad Sen. Barack Obama sharing a "terrorist fist jab" with his wife, Michelle — who is depicted as an afro-sporting, AK-47-toting militant. (TWI weighed in here and here.)
On the magazine’s Website, Vanity Fair features a caricature of Sen. John McCain supporting himself with a walker as his wife, Cindy, cradles bottles of prescription pills.
In case you missed the joke, McCain is old and his wife had a substance abuse problem. Judging from the comments, it’s safe to say this "cover" is much more well-received than its predecessor, which caused an uproar. Here’s a sample:
Excellent. You can almost smell the old man in the air.
And:
Wonderful piece of art, nails the NY cover perfectly, but isn’t McKrusty’s big bump on the wrong side of his face?
I guess it’s true that it’s always funnier when the other guy is the butt of the joke.
