tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post2591168440358020021..comments2023-12-24T15:36:16.969-05:00Comments on Chuck for ...: New Yorker Obama Cover - VoteChuck Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-79989267695873503662008-07-16T03:25:00.000-04:002008-07-16T03:25:00.000-04:00I'd say it worked for selling magazines. It misse...I'd say it worked for selling magazines. It misses being funny, but so did Swift's "A Modest Proposal." As satire it misses because it needs either to be funny or biting and it just isn't either. See Jon Swift for a bit different take.Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-6877961767695169792008-07-15T23:53:00.000-04:002008-07-15T23:53:00.000-04:00I think it's not funny, a failed attempt at humor....I think it's not funny, a failed attempt at humor. My real problem with it is that it <I>entirely</I> relies on the <I>New Yorker</I> masthead to approach humor. If it were on the cover of <I>National Review</I> - or even of <I>Newsweek</I> - it would be announcing, in slightly amplified fashion, a story about how Obama Doesn't Love America or some such. In Newsweek, it woudl be written in Concern Troll style; in the more conservative media, of course, it would be more in the way of a denunciation.<BR/><BR/>The only reason it works as parody at all is because the person who sees it says 'well, the <I>New Yorker</I> can't be <I>that</I> dumb'. And that's pretty thin. If it had been paired with exaggerated trops about McCain, or if it had been a thought bubble from Karl Rove, it might have worked without the masthead. As it is, I'm not convinced it worked at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-19578001467994938232008-07-15T06:25:00.000-04:002008-07-15T06:25:00.000-04:00I'm easily distracted so here's what bothers me fa...I'm easily distracted so here's what bothers me far more than the cartoon:<BR/><BR/>The New Yorker's reaction. They are shocked! SHOCKED, that anyone would be upset. Puh. Leeze. There are dozens, nay hundreds of unwashed performance artists who'll create a work of art and readily admit it was done to shock. The BoE at the New Yorker doesn't have the same intestinal fortitude.<BR/><BR/>However, the right side of the blogoshpere's reaction has been priceless. "See! I told you he's a ... Wait. Is this a joke about us?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-61655836932288418222008-07-15T02:38:00.000-04:002008-07-15T02:38:00.000-04:00A gaffe on my part...A gaffe on my part...Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-14456696807953751292008-07-15T01:35:00.000-04:002008-07-15T01:35:00.000-04:00You didn't have "not funny" as an option so I'm vo...You didn't have "not funny" as an option so I'm voting here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com