Comments on: Breaking: Marty Moss-Coane Wraps Up Excruciating Hour Dedicated To People Too Stupid To Understand Obama New Yorker Cover

By: jburnside

jburnside — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:22:44 +0000

Satire should be controversial. In that they succeeded.Will certain folks take it as reality? Yes.

In two weeks, no one will remember it ever happened.

So I rate it a non-event

By: A Feculent Rainbow

A Feculent Rainbow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:50:44 +0000

Way to perpetuate this non-issue. Echo chambers and such.

Nader, Bitches.

By: Philly Chit Chat

Philly Chit Chat — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:50:38 +0000

I think there are a lot of not so brilliant people in Montana or Louisianna that might think it’s a prediction of things to come if they don’t do something about it.

By: mappy

mappy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:25:45 +0000

I don’t think I can go along with calling it brilliant satire. Satire should make its target look ridiculous. There’s nothing in this more ridiculous or over the top than the actual right-wing memes going around about Obama.

By: fuckermost

fuckermost — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:00:27 +0000

i’ve been thinking a lot about this i was wondering when you guys were going to get to it. i agree with thinking “anyone who believed this cover was actually depicting FACTS is too stupid to vote Barry anyway.” well, in truth, i agree entirely with your sentiments regarding the fact that this is a brilliant piece of satire.

i will say, however, that this illustration is a bit acerbic, even for the seasoned subscribers. sometimes, new yorker covers are without question taken literally (read: when the slant goes the other way). knowing the new yorker’s style makes this illustration easily understood. it is possible though, if you were from a different culture and you saw this, that it could be construed as confusing. if eminem was on the cover of VIBE wearing a KKK outfit, people might get confused, however simple it is to figure out that it is satire. all i’m saying is that perhaps this new yorker piece, given our position in history and the importance of this campaign and race, might have gone too far.

and perhaps it’s not that “the American media has the same emotional makeup as an insecure, bulimic teenage girl,” but that it has the same emotional makeup as an insecure, zit-faced, late-blooming boy who ate way too much sugar. it’s more that the conveyed opinion (bought, sold, or otherwise) is merely glanced over without question than it is that the message is harped upon.

By: Allan Smithee

Allan Smithee — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:00:16 +0000

For quite a few patrons of the bars I drink at in Port Richmond, this cover is not satire but fact. But then I’m not there to talk politics, just drink the inexpensive pints of beer.

Also, think this cover fails as satire. Perhaps if they had tagged it a fox news exclusive it might have been more on target.

By: Philly Chit Chat

Philly Chit Chat — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:42:21 +0000

Having worked on many campaigns, the problem is not only getting them to register, it’s getting them off the damn computer and in the voting booth. Instead of taking the senior citizens to the polling place this time we should scour the coffee shops and parks and drag their ass to the booth.

By: John Lightstone

John Lightstone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:42:14 +0000

Good article in yesterday’s Times about the late night shows not being able to figure out how to write jokes about Barry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/us/politics/15humor.html

By: John Lightstone

John Lightstone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:41:05 +0000

Good article in yesterday’s Times on how the late night shows have shown a complete inability to write jokes about Barry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/us/politics/15humor.html

By: C. The Impaler

C. The Impaler — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:37:20 +0000

Thank you! Of course, Marty’s just following Talk of the Nation’s (and Larry King’s, and etc., etc.’s) lead from yesterday. To be honest, her hour came off less batty than the stuff I heard yesterday on “national” NPR.

Still, and this may hurt those of us crushing on the Obama revolution, but part of this is the Obama camp’s fault for taking a CBS correspondent’s bait. If O stuck with the response to this bullshit he used at AIPAC (well, if he worked on his delivery of that response a bit) instead of denouncing the cover as “tasteless and offensive” I don’t think this shitstorm would have brewed.