Comments on: Poor Little New Yorker http://www.minus-five.com/2008/07/17/poor-little-new-yorker/ My Life At Rock Bottom Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:12:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Michael http://www.minus-five.com/2008/07/17/poor-little-new-yorker/#comment-246 Michael Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:38:01 +0000 http://www.minus-five.com/?p=278#comment-246 Ana B. and MF, I think The Rude Pundit summed up both your concerns when he wrote (edited for the good Christian folks here at MF): Here's the thing: anyone who doesn't see the cover art as satire already believed that Obama was a terr'ist out to secretly destroy America and get rid of apple pie and porn. No one's gonna look at the cover and say, "Well, right there, it proves Obama hates this country." Conversely (and this is the reason the cover fails as satire), there's not a one of those Obama-hating conspiracy nuts who's going to look at a magazine called The New Yorker...and think, "Well, shee-it, haven't they made us look quite the fools with their hyperbolic representation of a possible Obama presidency. I'd better call Merle and Jesse and tell 'em the cross-burnin' is off." The link to the full post: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-yorker-cover-really-well-at-least.html Ana B. and MF, I think The Rude Pundit summed up both your concerns when he wrote (edited for the good Christian folks here at MF):

Here’s the thing: anyone who doesn’t see the cover art as satire already believed that Obama was a terr’ist out to secretly destroy America and get rid of apple pie and porn. No one’s gonna look at the cover and say, “Well, right there, it proves Obama hates this country.” Conversely (and this is the reason the cover fails as satire), there’s not a one of those Obama-hating conspiracy nuts who’s going to look at a magazine called The New Yorker…and think, “Well, shee-it, haven’t they made us look quite the fools with their hyperbolic representation of a possible Obama presidency. I’d better call Merle and Jesse and tell ‘em the cross-burnin’ is off.”

The link to the full post:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-yorker-cover-really-well-at-least.html

]]> By: minus five http://www.minus-five.com/2008/07/17/poor-little-new-yorker/#comment-245 minus five Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:25:09 +0000 http://www.minus-five.com/?p=278#comment-245 Ana: I know what you're saying--and it's probably the foreigner in you. It would be great if everyone looked at the cover and immediately saw it as a joke and if it convicted their own minds, but it doesn't. The fear is that great. So great that these things that seem so absurd to some of us are like God's word to others. The only people who got the joke were the people who already think these things that are being said are completely asinine. However well intentioned, the cover only ended up giving everyone else a picture to go with their thoughts. Ana: I know what you’re saying–and it’s probably the foreigner in you. It would be great if everyone looked at the cover and immediately saw it as a joke and if it convicted their own minds, but it doesn’t. The fear is that great. So great that these things that seem so absurd to some of us are like God’s word to others.

The only people who got the joke were the people who already think these things that are being said are completely asinine. However well intentioned, the cover only ended up giving everyone else a picture to go with their thoughts.

]]> By: Ana B http://www.minus-five.com/2008/07/17/poor-little-new-yorker/#comment-243 Ana B Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:29:07 +0000 http://www.minus-five.com/?p=278#comment-243 Ok, I agree with everything you said there. But somehow I think you also explained the reasons why I think that cover is brilliant. It's not "just another cover". It's in-your-face, it provokes you, and then we have no choice but to talk about all those things. All those clichés that people think when it comes to Obama, that are inaccurate and cause him to be seen as a charicature. But maybe this is the "foreigner" in me talking. I do think there is an element to that kind of "humor" that is not very American. And maybe that's where the brilliance of the cover lives. Do I make any sense? Ok, I agree with everything you said there. But somehow I think you also explained the reasons why I think that cover is brilliant. It’s not “just another cover”. It’s in-your-face, it provokes you, and then we have no choice but to talk about all those things. All those clichés that people think when it comes to Obama, that are inaccurate and cause him to be seen as a charicature. But maybe this is the “foreigner” in me talking. I do think there is an element to that kind of “humor” that is not very American. And maybe that’s where the brilliance of the cover lives. Do I make any sense?

]]> By: Collin http://www.minus-five.com/2008/07/17/poor-little-new-yorker/#comment-242 Collin Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:09:23 +0000 http://www.minus-five.com/?p=278#comment-242 You really hit the nail on the head with this post. It was a very poor choice by The New Yorker. Good one, MF. You really hit the nail on the head with this post. It was a very poor choice by The New Yorker. Good one, MF.

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