Vanity Fair counters with mock cover of John and Cindy McCain

[jefferson_dem]

Vanity Fair Covers The New Yorker
by Vanity Fair
July 22, 2008, 12:10 PM

Cover-McCain2.jpgWe here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete for some of the same stories, and share an elevator bank. (You can tell the ones who are headed to the 20th floor by their Brooklyn pallor and dog-eared paperbacks.)

And heaven knows we’ve published our share of scandalous images, on the cover and otherwise. So we’ve been watching the kerfuffle over last week’s New Yorker cover with a mixture of empathy and better-you-than-us relief.

We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear, but we shelved it when The New Yorker’s became the “It Girl” of the blogosphere. Now, however, in a selfless act of solidarity with our downstairs neighbors here at the Condé Nast building, we’d like to share it with you. Confidentially, of course.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/new-yorker-cover.html

[Parche]

1. John McCane

:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[roguevalley]

31. For great politics, you cannot beat Vanity Fair. They investigate everyone.

[olkaz]

2. Not impressed.

They could have been a LITTLE more inflammatory than that.

[depakid]

14. Where's the beer?

(or at least, the beer money).

[book_worm]

35. well she is holding drugs and they are burning the constitution

[olkaz]

40. They've been burning the constitution in public for seven years.

And most of america is doped up.

/sigh

[polichick]

3. Where are Cindy's drugs and prison garb?

[Schema Thing]

8. the drugs are in her hand

[polichick]

17. LOL - I looked so quickly I thought they were rolls of coins!

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. She's holding lots of prescription pill bottles, at least

[jefferson_dem]

10. Well, she does have an armfull of pills...

n/t

[BOSSHOG]

12. She's holding a bunch of prescription bottles

[endarkenment]

13. The drugs are craddled in her hands.

Instead of prison garb she is dressed as any wealthy heiress would dress informally at home. I think the cover is fair enough, not quite as over the top as the New Yorker, but good enough. Oh, and the funny part about it, sort of the reverse of the reverse of the original, is that there is nothing much inaccurate in the depiction.

[Cha]

16. Cindy's drugs are spilling outta

her hand and that pic of w on the wall is priceless.

The burning of the Constitution in the fireplace says it all..and who cares if it's all true. At least it's out there.

[ellacott]

4. But everything in that picture is true

[truthisfreedom]

11. Exactly... where's the satire?

[endarkenment]

18. That is the play.

Where everything in the New Yorker cover was by intention an item from the absurd rightwing misrepresentations against the Obamas, just about everything in the Vanity Fair cover can be substantiated. (McCain doesn't need a walker that we know of, but his physical and mental status due to aging are valid concerns.)

[KittyWampus]

27. she's giving John the FIST BUMP! LOL

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Can't wait for the RW heads to explode over this

[BOSSHOG]

15. But the magazine explained thats its satire

and we know how those wacky wingers have a great sense of humor. They'll just chuckle their little heads off.

[SuperTrouper]

32. Sean Hannity will need Valium tonight

[babylonsister]

6. "selfless act of solidarity"

:rofl: Yea, sure. They all just want to sell copies, but this is a lot funnier imo.

[truthisfreedom]

7. I like the little blue puddles around the outside ring of the presidential seal carpet.

And how McCain's combover looks like a giant cancer bandage.

[KittyWampus]

28. Hi stance, he looks like he's trying to find the urinal. Putting out the fire? LOL

[endarkenment]

19. Let the OH NOES and FATWAHS from the right begin!

this should be fun.

[BklynChick]

20. the problem is, everything in here is true, just maybe slightly exaggerated, the Obama

New Yorker cover was a satire on the RW perception of the Obamas. Not analagous.

[KittyWampus]

29. Very true. Satire would have to be picking on the bogus "Maverick" tag the Media uses

and allows.

[merh]

21. What, no stolen cookie recipe

and their attire is in no way satirical - a white robe for him perhaps and her as the red queen or Marie Antoinette -

not unfunny but not as hard hitting as it should be.

[thereismore]

22. I like it. nt

[Newsjock]

23. VF appears to have 'borrowed' more than a little from the Seattle P-I's version

Published July 15.

[inna]

39. HA HA! love the drooling in this one ~!

:rofl:

[WhiteTara]

24. this may mock the McLames, but

it still shows elements of the truth...Cindy has handfulls of pills and John is leaning on his walker...the other showed the lie of the Obamas...Barrack in a turban, Michelle with an AK 47 (r whatever)...totally different still

[polichick]

25. As y'all pointed out, those are pill bottles, not rolls of coins (as I thought). So...

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

How 'bout a $750,000 tag somewhere?

[mkultra]

26. i love the constitution in the fire

that's rich.

[cascadiance]

30. McCain needs a soap bar in his mouth...

A soap bar with printing on it that says "No C..." with the rest of it covered up...

[polichick]

33. Perfect! :)

[Alter Ego]

34. Sorta funny, mostly lame.

The burning Constitution is a nice touch.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. fair and balanced assessments of both candidates? >>

[Gabi Hayes]

38. not so fair.....

http://home.comcast.net/~wizardofwhimsy

[Catherine Vincent]

37. LOL!

Look at that pic of Dubya on the wall!