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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 09:22 AM
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  -Satire is satire, whether a wacko gets it or not! The New Yorker was right to run it. skip fox  Jul-15-08 07:13 PM   #0 
  - You are late!  gatorboy   Jul-15-08 07:14 PM   #1 
  - Yes  JimmyJubes   Jul-15-08 07:17 PM   #2 
  - The Obama camp is wacko too?  panader0   Jul-15-08 07:27 PM   #3 
  - I didn't call us or Obama wackos. We GOT IT, after all,  skip fox   Jul-15-08 07:36 PM   #6 
  - Agreed  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-15-08 07:33 PM   #4 
  - Irony, and it should be painful  repo   Jul-15-08 07:35 PM   #5 
  - they had the right.. but it was still inappropriate and elitist.  sam sarrha   Jul-15-08 07:47 PM   #7 
  - Who is an elitist? Someone who knows more than you?  skip fox   Jul-15-08 08:53 PM   #9 
     - no, people who do one thing call it another, then say you arent as smart as they are when you point  sam sarrha   Jul-15-08 09:48 PM   #14 
  - I disagree  JerseygirlCT   Jul-15-08 07:48 PM   #8 
  - As my father used to say, "Some people's taste is all in their mouths."  skip fox   Jul-15-08 09:06 PM   #12 
     - LOL  JerseygirlCT   Jul-16-08 07:31 AM   #23 
  - Blatant Racism thinnly disguised as humor....FUCK the editor....get his head up Roves ass  opihimoimoi   Jul-15-08 08:54 PM   #10 
  - Perhaps it's elitist to think no one else is intelligent enough to get it???  skip fox   Jul-15-08 09:07 PM   #13 
     - i saw it.. it was a campaign ad for McCain  sam sarrha   Jul-15-08 09:49 PM   #15 
     - So what you're saying essentially is, if I want to satirize bu$h,  Art_from_Ark   Jul-16-08 07:41 AM   #25 
  - Yeah, fuck 'em  Canuckistanian   Jul-15-08 08:55 PM   #11 
  - Thank you. The humor deprived have held the field too long on this.  Sinistrous   Jul-15-08 10:51 PM   #16 
  - And suppose  BronxBoy   Jul-16-08 06:28 PM   #45 
  - As an interior cartoon would have been art. As a cover it's crash commercialism  McCamy Taylor   Jul-15-08 11:58 PM   #17 
  - An intelligent take. I disagree, but you make an interesting point well.  skip fox   Jul-16-08 06:31 AM   #18 
  - The thing is - if the intention is really to lampoon those who  JerseygirlCT   Jul-16-08 07:34 AM   #24 
     - The target is the lens. Just as in Swift's "Modest Proposal."  skip fox   Jul-16-08 09:04 AM   #30 
        - But I don't think that illustration does that at all  JerseygirlCT   Jul-16-08 09:45 AM   #34 
           - But it was like shining a light on a pack of feeding rats. They scattered.  skip fox   Jul-16-08 02:34 PM   #37 
              - Maybe.  JerseygirlCT   Jul-16-08 06:17 PM   #43 
  - Well, because it IS the cover, it made a LOT of people talk about what it depicted.  CTyankee   Jul-16-08 07:29 AM   #22 
  - My guess is that this will be the most viewed AND REPRODUCED New Yorker cover ever.  Raster   Jul-16-08 01:48 PM   #36 
  - Tell satire to the moron who called the Washington Journal about  Vinca   Jul-16-08 07:12 AM   #19 
  - When they so blatently expose themselves, the repulse others.  skip fox   Jul-16-08 09:08 AM   #31 
  - Some DU suggestions please!  DangerDave921   Jul-16-08 07:19 AM   #20 
  - Are There Still Vapors Here?  KharmaTrain   Jul-16-08 07:23 AM   #21 
  - Exactly  EstimatedProphet   Jul-16-08 07:51 AM   #26 
     - Hyperactive DU  KharmaTrain   Jul-16-08 08:25 AM   #27 
  - I see you, skip  riverdale   Jul-16-08 08:27 AM   #28 
  - You are absolutely correct. This will fall on deaf ears, but I'm going to say it anyway  truth2power   Jul-16-08 08:53 AM   #29 
  - Wine is Wine, whether a wacko gets it or not! It doesn't matter who bottles it  Ichingcarpenter   Jul-16-08 09:13 AM   #32 
  - yes  lionesspriyanka   Jul-16-08 09:22 AM   #33 
  - Kick.  Sinistrous   Jul-16-08 01:31 PM   #35 
  - It failed to identify it's target, therefore the target appeared to be the Obamas.  Dr_eldritch   Jul-16-08 02:55 PM   #38 
  - You seem to think I'm an elitist? But I'm the one with faith in poeple's  skip fox   Jul-16-08 03:06 PM   #39 
  - What? Did my satire go right over your head?  Dr_eldritch   Jul-16-08 05:48 PM   #40 
  - The target couldn't have been more clear.  sfexpat2000   Jul-16-08 05:52 PM   #41 
     - I'm flattered I'm worth stalking.  Dr_eldritch   Jul-16-08 08:26 PM   #46 
  - It can only prove to be a "teachable moment" if the corporate media  Uncle Joe   Jul-16-08 06:09 PM   #42 
  - Oh  BronxBoy   Jul-16-08 06:24 PM   #44 
 

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