akiak
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How do you feel about the New Yorker cover showing Barack Obama as a muslim and his wife as a terrorist?
Vote 08 Here
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Another word, Stupid!
It's a caricature - ergo what Steerpike has posted makes complete sense. If it was a right wing rag it would have been a photoshopped front page intended to inflame it's right wing readers. That's the difference.
It is stupid and irresponsible because many people will not go beyond looking at the cover, and come away thinking the New Yorker thinks Obama is a Muslim and his wife a gun toting terrorist.
It's just crude if you ask me, and I don't even like Obama, and like his wife even less
No, it's sin - if there is one - is that the satire is too fine. In an age when we're used to satire being delivered like a sabre blow, the tingling prick of the point of the épée isn't felt any longer.
One thing it demonstrates though, the dumbing-down is almost complete.
It's contagious. Do you recall the incident in the UK a couple of years ago when a doctor's house was attacked by a mob. Dumb bastards couldn't work out the difference between paediatrician and paedophile!
Oh and here? Quite a number of years ago all public notes and safety warnings and the like that related to inflammable objects, equipment, clothing etc, had to be changed so that the sign/label read "flammable". Apparently our collective genius had decided that "inflammable" (as in "inflame") somehow meant "unflammable" (a non-word of course but apparently if it were known in Australian-English would have meant "non-inflammable").
"It's okay, we can get these jammies for the kids, they're 'inflammable' that means we can let them sit near the heater....."
True story.
Sorry for the thread drift, sometimes I can't help myself.
That's unbelievable.
What's ironic is that RGS is using the word liberal incorrectly and proving your point.
One word: Ratings
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