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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:13 PM Original message |
Satire is satire, whether a wacko gets it or not! The New Yorker was right to run it. |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. You are late! |
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JimmyJubes (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Obama camp is wacko too? |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I didn't call us or Obama wackos. We GOT IT, after all, |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. Agreed |
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Resuscitated Ethics (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. Irony, and it should be painful |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. they had the right.. but it was still inappropriate and elitist. |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 08:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Who is an elitist? Someone who knows more than you? |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. no, people who do one thing call it another, then say you arent as smart as they are when you point |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. I disagree |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. As my father used to say, "Some people's taste is all in their mouths." |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:31 AM Response to Reply #12 |
23. LOL |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Blatant Racism thinnly disguised as humor....FUCK the editor....get his head up Roves ass |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Perhaps it's elitist to think no one else is intelligent enough to get it??? |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. i saw it.. it was a campaign ad for McCain |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. So what you're saying essentially is, if I want to satirize bu$h, |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah, fuck 'em |
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Sinistrous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
16. Thank you. The humor deprived have held the field too long on this. |
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BronxBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 06:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
45. And suppose |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. As an interior cartoon would have been art. As a cover it's crash commercialism |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 06:31 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. An intelligent take. I disagree, but you make an interesting point well. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. The thing is - if the intention is really to lampoon those who |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 09:04 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. The target is the lens. Just as in Swift's "Modest Proposal." |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 09:45 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. But I don't think that illustration does that at all |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. But it was like shining a light on a pack of feeding rats. They scattered. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. Maybe. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:29 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Well, because it IS the cover, it made a LOT of people talk about what it depicted. |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 01:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
36. My guess is that this will be the most viewed AND REPRODUCED New Yorker cover ever. |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
19. Tell satire to the moron who called the Washington Journal about |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 09:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
31. When they so blatently expose themselves, the repulse others. |
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DangerDave921 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
20. Some DU suggestions please! |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:23 AM Response to Original message |
21. Are There Still Vapors Here? |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 07:51 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Exactly |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:25 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Hyperactive DU |
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riverdale (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
28. I see you, skip |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
29. You are absolutely correct. This will fall on deaf ears, but I'm going to say it anyway |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
32. Wine is Wine, whether a wacko gets it or not! It doesn't matter who bottles it |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
33. yes |
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Sinistrous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
35. Kick. |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
38. It failed to identify it's target, therefore the target appeared to be the Obamas. |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. You seem to think I'm an elitist? But I'm the one with faith in poeple's |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. What? Did my satire go right over your head? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 05:52 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. The target couldn't have been more clear. |
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The Doctor. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:26 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. I'm flattered I'm worth stalking. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
42. It can only prove to be a "teachable moment" if the corporate media |
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BronxBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
44. Oh |
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