Monday, July 14, 2008
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Too "Sophisticated" By Half
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
3:59 PM
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The New Yorker has created an objectively offensive caricature of the Obamas on the cover of its most recent issue -- Barack in Muslim dress, knuckle-bumping with Michelle Obama who's rendered as a modern day version of radical Angela Davis.
No doubt the cover was intended as a satirical slap at all the people the New Yorker sees as the legions of bigoted and unsophisticated Americans who are supposedly falling for scurrilous rumors about Barack.
The cover is, actually, another example of what I was talking about last week: "The laughter [from the left] is derisive . . . a frequent default posture of the left, enjoying a contemptuous laugh at the expense of the hicks and the rubes who 'embarrass' sophisticates with their monolingualism, their proud pro-Americanism, their religiosity, their lapel flags and the like."
By the way, there's a picture of the cover over at The Corner.
Except this time, the joke's on The New Yorker.
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Cannot believe so many sheeple are so upset and in a tizzy that Obamassah and his followers are offended by a very well thought out cartoon on the cover of the "New Yorker" -- He would show more "jazz" if he issued thoughtful and straight-faced denials about the very hard hitting article inside that great tome -- Maybe Jesse Jackson was paying BHO a compliment when he made his "off color" remarks of nut cracking the presumptive nominee into another gender by alluding that he does, in fact, sport a pair -- Man up, Barry -- Are you running for President or Prom Queen!! -- |
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The cover is objectively offensive, but it is satirical. Moreover, they're satirizing Republicans, specifically the fringe who think that Barack is a Muslim loyal to bin Laden and intending to destroy the U.S. from within, and that Michelle is a wannabe '60s radical.
The joke is that Obama is actually taking personal offense for the magazine making fun of the stupidest of his critics. And that plays right into the much more common perception of him in Republican circles: someone with thin skin who is tragically out of touch with most of the world. So thank you, Mr. Obama. You've shown us you're exactly who we thought you were. |
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Who exactly was that directed towards? Ms. Liebau? Conservatives in general?
Many conservatives treat populism with contempt. Admittedly I am not one of them, and I rather like populism. When it comes to serving average Americans though, you have 2 choices when it comes to economics:
Conservatives - support lowering taxes, drilling for more oil thereby lowering gas and home heating prices, do not take your property through eminent domain or other programs intended to take money from those who earned it and give to those who have not. Ideally (although in the case of many Republicans for the sake of political expediency this was ignored), also do not subsidize the production of ethanol in fuel, thereby simultaneously raising fuel and food prices. The food riots in Haiti are a good reason not to do this.
Liberals - support raising gas prices through the gas tax and induce artificial scarcity of oil supply through drilling restrictions in order to "save the planet" resulting in higher gas and heating prices, redistribute taxes to institute a culture of dependency making people on the bottom rungs like drug addicts with welfare payments, subsidize and encourage the disintegration of families by offering more generous welfare payments if a mother is single, and institute affirmative action programs that undermine the meritocracy by assigning reward and position with superficial demographic characteristics.
...Liberals on the side of the common good? When? |
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Republicans would have everyone believe that they are the party of "middle America" and love to deride liberals as "cultural elites" out of touch with the average American. If the last 8 years have shown anything, it's the Republicans and conservatives, more than anyone who have shown that they are just garden variety aristocrats who think that we are in a "mental recession" and that the average American is a "whiner". Liberals truly are on the side of the common good. The conservatives have overplayed their hand and showed their true colors. These old assumptions about liberals are being cast aside. Look at the polls. |
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