Jonathan Swift must be spinning in his grave.
"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
[From UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news - "New Yorker" caricature of Obamas is widely criticized - Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2008]
And these Obamaniacs must be the biggest wimps on the block. Also the most humorless. From Chicago, no less. I bow my head in shame.
Dude, if you find the New Yorker cover offensive go read something else.
Hey, New Yorker - next week, how about a cover with Eustace Tilley eating babies?
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thing is, to these medilliterate genxers feeling their oats just now, the only reference for
"cleaver" would be "beaver" so why would they get it? Those
who cannot remember the past may be condemned to repeat it, but the twist is: those who can are--o, how rapidly!--doomed to obscurity.
I've been noticing. alas.
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