Comments on: Obama, The New Yorker, And Shared Enemies

MarketWatch Media Columnist Jon Friedman Waited In Vain For A Rally Around The New Yorker

[vincan-2009]

I think the New Yorker is not so liberal. Just like all the other media in America is not liberal. The travesty of the Bush presidency would not have happened to us without a very republican media who makes sure they are on top of every story running over the democrat and propping up the republican. That means it will be a miracle if Obama is our next president. He deserves to be and he is the one who will do right for us, but the dark forces who want to hang on to power by are like snarling dogs. Corruption comes easy to these power hungry, greedy republicans who have gone amuck.

[ausus-2009]

I was listening to a conversation on an overseas radio station where the journalists were commenting on the cartoon. They said American''s just don''t get irony. I tend to agree. The symbolism was so over the top I would have thought that nobody would have taken it seriously. Admittedly it was more a cover I would have expected to see on Mad than the New Yorker.

[ajmarine111]

I think the New Yorker underestimates the ignorance and stupidity of the American people.

Posted by noloyalisti at 05:52 PM : Jul 16, 2008


I would have liked to have been in the room when they decided this picture would make a good cover. I just wonder how the conversation went.

[noloyalisti]

I think the New Yorker underestimates the ignorance and stupidity of the American people. We may be the most ignorant people overall in the world from what I have seen abroad.

A large number of Americans voted for Bushoccio. A large number were fooled by the neo con men over Iraq and a large number think Obama is a Muslim. I rest my case.

[ajmarine111]

hence..liberal obama was a victim of ''''friendly fire'''' from the liberal new Yorker..


Posted by libsluv2spit at 03:11 PM : Jul 16, 2008



In order for it to have come across like The New Yorker intended, they should have had Rush with a paint brush painting the cartoon.

Then people would have gotten the humor in it.

[bombadil4]

It is really NOT the job of the New Yorker or any other literary/artistic individual or organization to make political "judgements" or "correctness" a barrier to what they create. The fact that we are such a dumbed down society that many individuals might take the cover at face value should be no barrier against the age-old use of satire, caricature, etc. Those of you offended can rest assured that as our illiteracy and drop-our rates continue to spiral down into the pits, only NASCAR and Profession Wrestling magazines will survive.

[libsluv2spit]

the New Yorker''s intent with the ''satire'' is to mock the conservatives that stereotyped obama as such..the result was devestating and a disaster..a liberal newsource and dwindled down to ''jackarse'' style of toilet humor.

hence..liberal obama was a victim of ''friendly fire'' from the liberal new Yorker..

[paris1969]

It is funny how people who support a candidate who has spent 20+ years in a racist-anti-White-America church and uses the reference "typical white person" .. call those who do not support him ignorant and uneducated ... maybe being an "educated fool" is what causes this. The New Yorker cover is for the liberals and urban dwellers ... rural voters don''t much buy these type of publications!

[medmom04]

Clearly the New Yorker was poking fun at the fearfully prejudiced uneducated folks who may believe that the Obama''s might be of a certain religious sect or mindset that fuels their fears. It IS sad that we would not want the New Yorker to make fun of said ill-informed folks, simply because being against educating themselves, they may misinterpret the New Yorker''s cover as falling in line with their own backwoods deflated set of values and ideals.

[blitzder]

If it was''nt for the ''liberals'' during the American rebellion of 1776, we would all be paying taxes to the Queen of England right now, and fighting their wars. Any progress since then was also because of the ingenuity of the liberals who are in the majority in the united states of today.

The conservatives all went to Canada at the time, come to think of it, thats where we should ship out all the conservatives and the Rush Limbaugh''s and Bill O''reilly''s and their followers today. This country would not be in a recession, with the 9 trillion dollar Iraq war of bankruptcy hanging around our necks.

Conservative policies of blood, gore, mayhem, deficit spending, racism, bigotry, Katrina fiasco, Banks going belly up along with Enron, GM, Bear Stearns, Mortgage industry and Airlines, its pretty much the whole ball of wax. Pathetic conservative policies are the real issues in this election.

LIBERAL POLICIES ARE WHAT MAKE THIS COUNTRY WORK. Conservatives don''t or can''t think. They are a disaster for the nation. Americans should wake up and get real.