Fox News Defends The New Yorker's Right to Take Satire to the Brink
Beside Jack Shafer — who, in writing for Slate, must take the opposite opinion of every other critic, because that is the way they do things there — who else is going to call The New Yorker Barack Obama cover for what the magazine intended: a brilliant bit of satire?
None other than Fox News' Fox & Friends, where former MSNBC anchor Monica Crowley and Bob Beckel guested and bitchslapped Obama for not laughing off the whole matter. Hey, maybe this will finally give late night hosts something to make fun of Obama for?
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There is nothing to make fun of Obama about because he doesn't talk sh*t and he actually has a brain. Obama didn't get his job through nepotism, he had to actually WORK HARD for everything he has in life. No daddy to call on for money to start companies or daddy to get you into the a certain ranking even though you are last third to last in a class of almost 900 students.. So that makes Obama harder to pick on.
The New Yorker is one of my favorite publications. I also love satire. The porblem here is that either something was MISSING or there was too much of something in this cartoon.
I think it's both. The flag and Osama was overkill.
The problem is that Obama's absurdity is not true, so that makes it harder to really communicate satirically. Walnuts McInsane is old, he is very unpredictable, he forgets, he lies without even worrying, his wife is a pill popper, a botox face stepford wife - so making fun of factual stuff in a satire is funny. The fact that Obama has been busting his chops to get away from the anti-American rhetoric, makes this cover more chocking than funny.