rssVanity Fair Spoofs The New Yorker with McCain Mock Cover
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm
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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.
6 Comments
Comment posted July 24, 2008 @ 8:28 am
See who the first wife of John McCain is working for now and who she contributed to
http://webofdeception.com/#carolsheppmccain
Comment posted July 23, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
This article not only lacks humor, it shows a lack of understanding by Vanity Fair on what a true Satire is. In order for a successful satire on McCain like that of Obama, it has to be based on falsehood that seems be perceived as truths by some Americans (for example: the cover could have shown McCain publicly denouncing America while he was a P.O.W). If you notice everything on this cover is TRUE, except for the walker that he will start using soon and the irrelevant fist bump.
Uninformed Americans who see both the Obama and McCain cover, will then infer that everything suggested in the Obama cover is true.
Comment posted July 22, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
Actually, this lacks humor. The only redeeming quality of this “satire” would be that it is satirizing the east coast liberal elite who believe the have the monopoly on intellectual humor.
You can’t satirize something without having some representation of the “victim” in the satire itself.
Comment posted July 22, 2008 @ 11:56 am
Actually, this lacks humor. The only redeeming quality of this “satire” would be that it is satirizing the east coast liberal elite who believe the have the monopoly on intellectual humor.
You can't satirize something without having some representation of the “victim” in the satire itself.
Comment posted July 23, 2008 @ 7:43 am
This article not only lacks humor, it shows a lack of understanding by Vanity Fair on what a true Satire is. In order for a successful satire on McCain like that of Obama, it has to be based on falsehood that seems be perceived as truths by some Americans (for example: the cover could have shown McCain publicly denouncing America while he was a P.O.W). If you notice everything on this cover is TRUE, except for the walker that he will start using soon and the irrelevant fist bump.
Uninformed Americans who see both the Obama and McCain cover, will then infer that everything suggested in the Obama cover is true.
Comment posted July 24, 2008 @ 3:28 am
See who the first wife of John McCain is working for now and who she contributed to
http://webofdeception.com/#carolsheppmccain
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