Rush Limbaugh was right

The blogosphere's reaction to the New Yorker cover proves that the Bush era has killed a lot of liberals' sense of humor. And that's not funny.

By Gary Kamiya

July 15, 2008 | It's official: The Bush era has made liberals so terrified of right-wing smears it has caused them to completely lose their sense of humor.

There's at least one more option, which I haven't heard voiced yet: that the Obama cartoon is bad, that it's low-quality satire. I got the joke but I didn't laugh because it wasn't funny. It's too broad to sting like the best wit can, and too clumsy to be immediately read as a lampoon of the right. It's not incisive, not clear and not good.

I mean, we're talking the magazine for America-hating neocons, right?

I voted for Obama twice in Illinois and will vote for him in November, I care about the environment and smoke but should have to do it outside, but Obama supporters, environmentalist and anti-smokers are the most annoying, fun killing nazis I have ever encountered.

What it pretty much comes down to is that The New Yorker can do better. And it is not a good idea to simply let them go ahead with something so sloppy and half-assed. Badly done satire becomes nothing more than a hokey image- one whose message gets murky and confusing.

New Yorker: at your disposal you have a practically limitless list of artists. You have aspiring new artists fresh from college and old veterans at your beck and call. You, like many other high pedigree establishments, can have your pick of the artistic and literary litters, and yet THIS is the final piece you chose to put on your cover? You couldn't even ask a genuinely good artist, or intelligent designer, to do this idea justice? To bring forth the scathing satire about the sheer idiocy of the ideas?

Shame on you New Yorker. Shame on you.

http://www.collegeotr.com/georgetown_university/rejected_new_yorker_covers_9944

And I thought the hysteria over what wingers would think was ridiculous. What are they going to say, that the New Yorker (a liberal rag) agrees with them that the Obamas are terrorists? Pshaw.