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Based upon the Kevin Drum/ Washington Monthly suggestion, I remixed this week's New Yorker Cover based upon Barry Blitt's Illustration. It is much funnier with the thought bubble and McCain. I think it will be easy for people in the current climate to misunderstand the original. But the remix makes it easier to get that it's supposed to be funny.
I like it! Nice one.
Posted by: Dave Munger at July 15, 2008 06:18 AMI think the New Yorker should apologize for its cover. As a prominent publication, the New Yorker has a greater responsibility to the consequences of its art than to the art itself.
There's a campaign to get the New Yorker to apologize:
www.thepoint.com/campaigns/the-new-yorker-should-apologize-for-the-obama-terrorist-cover
Posted by: sbc100 at July 15, 2008 01:34 PMPerfect.
Posted by: ModDem at July 15, 2008 06:06 PMLove it. That's going up on my blog.
Posted by: Leon at July 15, 2008 10:10 PMCheck out this response from This Modern World:
http://thismodernworld.com/4402
Posted by: Barry Deutsch at July 16, 2008 03:35 PMThis is exactly what I was thinking when I read their justification for the picture. If they're trying to portray the right-wing worst-case-scenario thinking about Obama, a little context is needed. Even just a right-winger with a thought balloon would have made it clear. But as always, magazines exist to sell copies and get publicity so they accomplished their real goals, whatever their artistic goals may be.
Posted by: Matt Grommes at July 17, 2008 02:20 PM