The now classic New Yorker cartoon with Obama as some sort of anti-American Muslim and his wife as a Black Panther type, McCain was predictably outraged, "tasteless and offensive", but it would have been nice if he had said:
"You know something folks, I have the intellectual capacity to get it. It is so over the top it is obviously intended as some sort of social satire, a parody of right-wing fears of Obama. In fact let's use this as a watershed moment to get rid of Political Correctness once and for all. This PC regime of ours, it's not why I fought for our country. We're all adults here so grow up! BTW Jesse Jackson can't cut these out because they're made of brass."
Alas!
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised at this McCain guy. Being a POW for 5 years taking on political correctness should be a piece of cake, gnats to be swatted away. I used to think pc was just annoying, now it's gotten creepy with that slight Orwellian tinge. Folks wake up in the morning looking to be offended.
ReplyDeleteThe New Yorker editor David Remnick has already explained the purpose of the cover so you'd think that would be the end of it, that you'd get a "oh ok, didn't get it at first" and maybe a lol thrown in. I actually am beginning to suspect that pc people are mental, it's only when people take them too seriously that they don't go away. The rest of us are too busy with our 9-5's to care that much, we're not mental we're just tired.
ReplyDelete& the really weird thing about pc people is they have a strong tendency to eat their own, I mean if the editor's explanation is true then isn't he on Obama's side too? this is praying mantis stuff.
ReplyDeleteThey just want to sell magazines, look at how much attention its getting!
ReplyDelete(Or they are really racists - surprised nobody is playing that card)
I buy the editor's explanation, it all adds up. Obama supporters are in a tizzy over this but if they saw it for what it is they could use it to jab the right with. Whatever, just a tempest in a teapot, no recent scandal to date can hold a candle to "nappy-headed ho's."
ReplyDeleteBut aren't you the one who goes along with the idea that there is much truth said in jest?
ReplyDeletewhich is why all these controversies peter out after a few days at best, it's like the pc'ers used up most of their energy with Imus, it's like a low battery, a handvac that can't suck up all the dirt, maybe they need to be recharged. Everybody's all nappy-headed ho'd out, should have saved some juice for the next one.
ReplyDeleteYeah Beth, there is alot of jesty truth out there but I don't think Obama's some closet Muslim out to destroy the country, liberalism does that all by itself with the best of intentions. Of course the editors could secretly believe in the cartoon and then fall back on the position that it's all satire but I'll save my conspiracy-theorizing for another day.
ReplyDeleteThey used up a lot of energy on Mel Gibson, too, didn't they?
ReplyDeleteThey need to learn to spread it out more. Even with these latest scandals it lacks that certain ummmph, that staying power. Mel Gibson and Imus, those are biggies. Energy conservation, that's what it's all about.
ReplyDeleteEven with the second I-man scandal, you know "what color is he?" "he's black" it lacked something like going through the motions of having sex when you don't really want to, like going for a long walk miles up the woods but then you have to go back and you call your friend on your cell to come pick you up, big fizzle.
ReplyDeleteThen again there is so much information out there, like information overload, so these scandals are replace so quickly by other news. It really does have to have some catalyst who really gets bothered by it to give the scandal longevity.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone should dig up a picture of McCain at the Hanoi Hilton, in black pajamas. Then claim that he was never really captured, but was instead a VC insurgent during the war. And let's see how the conservatives
ReplyDeletewill react to that!
Sounds about as believable as Obama being a Muslim fundamentalist. Besides, what's wrong with being a muslim?
Oh, like conservatives try to censor sex and violence on TV, in video games, try to shut down porn shops or strip clubs? Try to tell others' who they can or can't marry? Visciously attack their opposition like you see here against obamaa nd all the stupid muslim or racist comments that come from conservative? You serioulsy can't make such an assinine statment with a straight face about liberals in which conservatives do the same thing.
"Oh, like conservatives try to censor sex and violence on TV..."
ReplyDeletewell I was never a big fan of the boycott but you can't say conservatives have been very successful in this area can you? You're joking right? I even think they gave it up a long time ago.
"...try to shut down porn shops or strip clubs."
maybe when they get too close to respectable establishments, I believe this is known as zoning ordinances. These places are also magnets for seedy and criminal types, the occasional shooting or stabbing by some butthole who can't just have a good time. Of course in the liberal abstract it's all good.