The New Yorker Obama Cover Illustration and a Social Critic’s Machine Gun
Okay, I’m guilty: the first thing I did when I saw the New Yorker Obama-in-the-White House cover was laugh — I’m a sucker for satire, and that sucker is spot-on. If the target was to parody the crazy-forwarded-email-meets-Fox News view of the Democratic-nominee-to-be, they scored a very difficult headshot. To see what they were getting at, listen to New Yorker editor David Remnick (a man who hates to have to explain a joke) on NPR.
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