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Another Cartoon for the Commission

by Luiza Ch. Savage on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:47pm - 0 Comments

From the Seattle-Post Intelligencer: An insult to John McCain? Or to old people married to people who have abused prescription drugs and who want to bomb Iran while burning the U.S. Constitution? Or just an insult to people who believe that describes John McCain?

Update: No, wait, it’s the “irony challenged literalists” who didn’t get the first cartoon who should be launching the complaint for being subjected to such ridicule.

via Ben Smith and Andrew Sullivan

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  • Mike T.

    Interesting that the S-PI feels the need to contextualize this explicitly. If we are all so savvy that no reasonable person could possibly have misunderstood the intent of the New Yorker cover, why the need reproduce it here with extra text? Why not just run the fake cover as the complete cartoon? Would we not “get” it?

    I’d also like to point out that while McCain may not be frail or suffering from dementia, he is undeniably old. Obama is not muslim. One cartoon uses exaggeration with explicit context presented, the other uses fabrication and provides no context.

  • Lise laHaye

    One would think that “old age”jokes,or jokes about Bush Cheney or Rice have saturated the waves now for 8 years…Can any real talented comedians come up with something akin to CHANGE in order to show the world that they have talent! Oh! the dumming down of this culture is on a tremendous downslide,eh?

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