Vanity Fair spoofs The New Yorker for its August issue.

[Ichingcarpenter]

[fed_up_mother]

1. haha burning the Declaration of Independence

Should be the Bill of Rights. Oh, well.

[Lisa]

5. it's a good-sized fireplace -- maybe the entire Constitution is underneath!

And they just threw the other document in as an afterthought.

[Nostradammit]

11. (It's actually the Constitution)

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Etc., etc.

:hi:

[fed_up_mother]

16. LOL (covering in embarrassment over here)

I knew that. I really did. LOL

But I jumped on the Bill of Rights thing and thought I was being funny. :(

[bjobotts]

50. Extremely tame for what they could have pictured. McCain has a lot to work with- lol

[AzDar]

13. I do believe that IS the Constitution; not the Declaration of Independence.

"We The People...":patriot:

[Drum]

2. lol

nice!

[Binka]

3. LOVE IT!

Pills and a walker! LOL!

[HardWorkingDem]

4. Hm...are those urine stains on the carpet because....

McCain needs to get some Depends?

[Patchuli]

9. I think they're clouds on the rug

or they'd be yellow? eeewwuuu either way!

[HardWorkingDem]

20. OMG, then that means they are......yuck...

Some body, quick, order this man some ED medicine...or tell him to throw a hood on that twinkie.....

[elehhhhna]

37. He DID pee directly on the eagles head, tho'. It's yellow.

Prior to that he pooped on the constitution.

I LOVE the pill bottles in Cindy's hand! LOL

[DS1]

6. wow. the pills.

that's gonna leave a mark

[mak3cats]

89. I figure they're Viagra...

...why do you think she's the one in control of them?

[elizfeelinggreat]

7. turnaround is fair play

What's on his head?

(She needs a glittery beer can necklace)

[PerpetuallyDazed]

65. I think it's a bandage...

It might be a poke at his POW/Veteran's status that he consistently touts?

[1monster]

81. No, more likely bandages for removals of skin cancers...

[madeline_con]

8. Awesome tit for tat!

:rofl:

[guitar man]

10. Brilliant!!

They should have worked in some stacks of cash somewhere. :D

[undeterred]

47. Nah, stacks of unpaid tax and credit card bills...

[Junkdrawer]

12. Didn't a DUer suggest this?

Once again, we're being read....

[Junkdrawer]

17. Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3618331&mesg_id=3618331

[AlbertCat]

74. Once again...

...is right. This is about the 5th version of this.

I don't see how it's a "spoof" really.

Anyway, I thought satire didn't work unless it depicted the subjects of the intended satire.

Ohhhh...I get it now! (These things are SOOOOO difficult)They are making fun of McCain and Cindy! Not the New Yorker! Right?.... Right? Just like the Obamas were the NYer's intended target!


Jesus H. Christ!

[Sal Minella]

14. The cartoonist was too kind to Cindy's eyes.

Her face has actually been facelifted up until her pupils barely can see over the lower lids. That's mostly what gives her that spooky appearance. Her eyeballs seem to rest in slings.

[Minimus]

18. a couple more lifts and she will have a beard!

[Radio_Lady]

100. That's such a funny joke... I've heard it before. I demand equal time...look here:

Then, there's the vain man's facelift.

His skin was pulled so tight, he looks like he's wearing a flesh-colored tie...

[SoCalDem]

45. Cindy.... Before & After

[KnaveRupe]

49. Yay! A Brazil reference!!!

Best. Movie. Ever.

[badgerpup]

85. Apropos of nothing...

...but Cindy McCain is one scary-looking female.

I don't know whether it's her features or her expression, but she looks like a blonde Cruella DeVille minus the comedy element.
:hide::yoiks:

[Sal Minella]

88. My guess is her face is pretty much immobilized by the skin being pulled upward enough to make the

facial muscles essentially useless, and/or Botox. The lower lids seem to squeeze the eyeballs upward (like Laura Bush but much moreso) and the skin is an artificial matte of makeup. With normal eye color, the effect would be arresting, but given the zero-degree Celsius ice color of her eyes, the effect is nearly heart-stopping. "Scary" doesn't begin to describe it. She looks like bad anime.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Circulation of Vanity Fair vs The New Yorker

The New Yorker— 940,000 readers of The New Yorker

Vanity Fair - 1.5 million.


I see Vanity Fair in the Supermarkets but not the New Yorker.

[TahitiNut]

39. "I see Vanity Fair in the Supermarkets but not the New Yorker."

Well ... The New Yorker is for the self-proclaimed intelligentsia. Supermarkets are for the hoi polloi.

:eyes:

[AlbertCat]

79. You mean...

.... the self-proclaimed hoi polloi.

The New Yorker is for anyone who can read. So is Vanity Fair.

[uppityperson]

19. k&r

[Patchuli]

21. Yay!!! I can't wait 'til I get mine in the mail!

I bet the New Yorker is in a real tizzy! Turnabout is fair play! :rofl:

[Indenturedebtor]

22. Bwahahaha they forgot the cookies and the flak jacket n/t

[Junkdrawer]

23. And this will get how much airplay???

I'm betting a mention or two, then gone...

[Ichingcarpenter]

25. None, because this one is true except for the walker

But I like Vanity Fair's joke on the New Yorker

[elizfeelinggreat]

26. An important point!

This is portraying reasonable criticisms of the McCains.

So contrary to my first reaction it is not really turnabout, is it? It's much fairer than the New Yorker's cover was.

[timtom]

41. By the way,

the two magazines are both owned by Advance Publications:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

Isn't that interesting?

(Jumped onto your post for the sake of convenience. Thanks.)

[Nay]

63. Exactly, IChing. These references are TRUE, tho exaggerated. McCain

IS old, Cindy WAS an addict, they ARE burning the Constitution as pubs, etc. Several of us pointed this out repeatedly in previous posts about the New Yorker cover. The Obama cover was composed of RW LIES about the Obamas, with no visuals portraying the RW rednecks, say, thinking the Obama image (in a thought balloon, for example). There is no comparison, but it is good that VF is lampooning NYer.

[EFerrari]

24. LOL! Awesome.

:rofl:

[orleans]

27. what is on mcgramps head?

this is very funny. i didn't believe you--i had to go to vanity fair's website to confirm it was the real cover. (sorry for doubting you)
http://www.vanityfair.com/

on edit: my mother says it's bandages because he has cancer of the brain.
maybe?

[MannyGoldstein]

30. Band-Aid For His Melanoma

He's had several surgeries on his head for this.

[orleans]

31. thanks. n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

32. Well, many times I do spoof stuff

So, I don't blame you.


:) :smoke:

[MannyGoldstein]

28. That's Totally Different

The New Yorker cover was satire. The Vanity Fair cover is an accurate depiction.

[MadrasT]

29. Heehee

Look at chimpy over the fireplace... teehee... :rofl:

[lame54]

33. I love how W takes the place of Osama Bin Laden in the portrait

[valerief]

34. Unfortunately it doesn't have the same impact on Dems as the New Yorker

cover has on Repubs. The poor stupid Repubs. The ones who can't afford to be Republican. The ones who believe the Repub talking heads and their propaganda. The ones who believe in flag pins and sending their sons to Bush wars.

Dems understand satire. Otherwise we would have slit our throats years ago.

[RedLetterRev]

87. Actually, they believe in flag lapel pins,

talking heads and sending someone else's son's to Bush wars. Sad.

Sick and sad.

[TexasObserver]

35. Awesome!! And based on TRUTH.

[Wednesdays]

36. But...but...this is parody!

Not to be taken seriously. :eyes:

[TahitiNut]

38. The only "spoof" I see is the fist-bump.

:shrug:

[ChazII]

40. Perfect use of humor.

How long before the Rethugs are crying no fair? :cry:

[TexasObserver]

42. Is that a load in his pants?

I think so.

I think he took a Dubya in his drawers.

[Coexist]

43. is that cover for real? if so I can't wait to get mine in the mail!

[Eurobabe]

44. LMAO!!

Like those plentiful prescription bottles, Cin. :hi:

[SoCalDem]

46. They gave him too much color.. He's pretty pinkish-pale n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

48. He is incontinent. I guess we know which candidate the arts industry loves.

[stlsaxman]

61. OMG! Those are PUDDLES on the floor!!!

eeeewwwww!!!!

:rofl: :spray:

[Bette Noir]

51. Remember all the conservatives who talked about how the New Yorker cover was

just satire, and Democrats had no sense of humor?

I wonder how funny they'll find this?

To me, it's freaking hilarious.

[swimmernsecretsea]

52. Oooooooo! That is E-vil! Yay!

Now, let's see some of that famous McCain temper!

[FloridaJudy]

53. w00t!

[DUlover2909]

54. The first part of the Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

[Cha]

55. I love that they're

doing this..good ol' Vanity Fair.

[enuegii]

56. I can't find it now, but

there was an editorial cartoon in the Sunday Huntsville Times(Alabama) that was very similar to this, except that McCain was in a wheelchair and Cindy was pouring pills into his hand, and with a portrait of Cheney over the fireplace instead of Bushbaby and the Constitution in the fireplace.

I'm sure it was a nationally syndicated cartoonist that drew it, as opposed to a local one(wouldn't go over well here), but I can't recall the name. I guess the spoof of the spoof was pretty obvious...

[enuegii]

58. Apparently, that got posted twice...Sorry!

[muriel_volestrangler]

69. David Horsey, of the Seatlle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1792

He specifically pointed out it was "for the irony-challenged literalists who were upset by the New Yorker's Obama-as-a-Muslim magazine cover".

[SlingBlade]

71. Nope, Not even close

[muriel_volestrangler]

78. I don't understand what you mean (nt)

[renate]

80. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[enuegii]

57. I can't find it now, but

there was an editorial cartoon in the Sunday Huntsville Times(Alabama) that was very similar to this, except that McCain was in a wheelchair and Cindy was pouring pills into his hand, and with a portrait of Cheney over the fireplace instead of Bushbaby and the Constitution in the fireplace.

I'm sure it was a nationally syndicated cartoonist that drew it, as opposed to a local one(wouldn't go over well here), but I can't recall the name. I guess the spoof of the spoof was pretty obvious...

[GCP]

59. So all the people who hated the New Yorker cover LOVE this!

I thought the New Yorker cover was great satire but this board had an almost unanimous hate fest over it, but once the shoe's on the other foot, wow, the difference.

Just saying :hide:

[Vickers]

60. I like both of them, but for very different reasons.

:thumbsup:

[PerpetuallyDazed]

66. Dude, this is all real! How are they satirizing McSame?

The "jokes" aren't really jokes but truth. Are they trying to legitimize all the stereotypes TNY lampooned? Or am I taking this to an illogical conclusion?

[EstimatedProphet]

67. They're not. They're spoofing the New Yorker

Fine with me, but I hope it doesn't spawn a million "Take that, New Yorker!" posts.

[PerpetuallyDazed]

93. Sorry, I still don't get it

How do you spoof a spoof without relegating your piece as a spoof? It sets up this Vanity Fair cover as a joke... meaning, those are all stereotypes about Cindy stealing pills, metaphor of the burning Constitution, ect, which I'm sure in our minds is actually true and not funny at all.

[SlingBlade]

73. BINGO-Thats the Truth !

[Doug.Goodall]

62. I don't see any humor here

All I see is truth.

[minnesota_liberal]

64. Excellent parody

But would have been in bad taste otherwise.

[Dollface]

68. To quote Stephen Colbert, "its funny because its true"

[Seedersandleechers]

70. That did it

I'm ordering a subscription TODAY.:bounce:

[Apollo11]

72. The difference is that the New Yorker went ahead and published their cartoon

Vanity Fair posted this "fake" cover on their website as a witty way of signalling their disagreement with the New Yorker's choice of cover. Not everyone will get it - but that is always the danger with satire ...

[Overseas]

90. Glad you confirmed what I thought when I saw it -- OLD HAT

I didn't think Vanity Fair would put a cartoon we had all seen already on the cover of their magazine.

Very glad they aren't putting it on their cover because, as others have noted, this one depicts mostly real issues, rather than the total fabrications the New Yorker cover depicted.

[me b zola]

75. A+++

I've been meaning to subscribe to Vanity Fair, this will make me do it today. :thumbsup:

[Seedersandleechers]

82. If you do it today

they guarantee to send the August edition.

[me b zola]

86. Thanks for that tip!

I'd hate to spend $5 for a single mag while subscribing. :hi:

[Tarc]

76. Cute, but completely misses the point of the original

which was slamming the broad caricatures and distortions that the right-wingers have painted the Obamas with. There is no correlation here with the left and McCain; he actually is decrepit and has one foot in the grave, he really has done much to destroy our Constitution with Bush looking over his shoulder, and so on.

[marshall]

91. There's also a big difference between being old and being a Muslim terrorist

But I give them points for trying. A better correlation would have been to have them dressed in Nazi regalia--but then maybe Nazi shtick is getting old too.

[PerpetuallyDazed]

94. Exactly!

My concern is that this will give legitimacy to TNY cover (Right-Wing: "They're attacking us now, so the Obama stereotypes must be true") and/or relegate the depictions of Cindy and the burning Constitution as more "stereotypes" from the Left.

[Limelight]

77. Boo-Yaa!!!

:applause: :rofl: :headbang:

[treestar]

83. OK, let's see if Rush gets the joke this time

:rofl:

[MsTryska]

84. hee!

that's awesome. I heart vanity fair.

and the new yorker.

[TNOE]

92. AWESOME!!

I love the bottles of pills in her hands. They should have put a tiara on her head though.

Yea, I can't wait to see how many "conservatives" get the joke.....

[jillan]

95. They should've taken this farther.

Like adding something about his connection to big oil, or have his wearing flip flops.

[RedShoes]

96. as someone who TRULY fails to see the huge impact of the New Yorker Cover

all I have to say is...

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[happygoluckytoyou]

97. waiting for the MAD Mag. version..... Condi E Newman

i missed out on the VIAGRA full frontal view....

[Hugabear]

98. I find it offensive that Vanity Fair is mocking a good man like McCain

:sarcasm:

[Radio_Lady]

99. Turnabout is fair play... I guess.

Memo to self:

Never, never submit to facial plastic surgery.

Go out with the face you came in with, if possible.

Thanks for reading!

RL in OR