Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Satirizing

Even the witty, hip, liberal New York Times is unable to actually tell you what the joke was.
What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet.On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from both Democrats and Republicans was explosive.