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Nice try, but this doesn't quite work. The myths about the Obamas the New Yorker cover is ostensibly satirizing are patently fictions, where the jabs at the McCains in the Horsey cartoon are essentially true (Cindy WAS a prescription drug addict, John IS an aging hawk, etc.). If a cartoon wanted to portray myths about McCain it would have to present him as a noble, straight-talking, party bucking war-hero. And the media does a fair enough job of that as it is.
Check out this killer take on the New Yorker cover by Red State Update. (And it had some New Yorker I hadn't seen before)
What levide said.
The only problem with your satirical take @1, is that many people wouldn't get it - they'd think it was actually true, just like many people still believe all the idiotic "rumors" about Obama.
Actually, now that I think of it, it would most likely be the same people believing BOTH memes - so, I guess that would make them doubly irony-challenged.
The comparison doesn't work.
I like that Dick Cheney is the Osama Bin Laden in this version.
A McCain presidency might give us another Land of Confusion video from Genesis at least.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3MzShg7yXik
Silver Lining for VEEP!
Really though, horsey is a total total moron.
'Twas a matter of time, though not nearly as good.
I'm with #8.
Am I the only one that read/sung "Bomb bomb bomb -- bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann"?
That and the constitution were nice touches, but, as others have said, the overall theme doesn't work.
New Yorker Cover = Exaggerating myths about the Obamas, Horsey cartoon = Exaggerating Truths about the McCains.
I wish, oh how I wish that people would bring up the, "trollop faced cunt" remark more often... that woman looks like she is about to eat my brains.
EPIC FAIL
Hazarding stating the obvious...
The "joke" is that this is for "literalists". It is not meant to parallel, exactly, the New Yorker cover. You fail humor 101.
Horsey's such an entertaining asshole. However, Cindy McCain really was a drug addict, John McCain really is fucking old, and he really did make the "bomb Iran" joke.
@10 - No, you're not the only one who sang "bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann" - McCain actually did, and that's what the cartoon is referencing:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/McCain_unplugged_Bomb_bomb_bomb_bomb_0419.html
National Review covers almost never have speech bubbles. Just cartoons with large heads.
tacoma has been generating some nice cartoons lately too:
http://www.feedtacoma.com/tacomic/?tid=7763
but that Cindy McCain is fucking hillarious.
@1 for the win.
It's not perfect, and I think Horsey missed the point, but it's still miles ahead of anything the no-talent-hack the Times calls a political cartoonist puts out. Devericks sucks rocks - mainly producing knee-jerk government bashing cartoons meant to be understood by 5 year olds.
Touchy...so touchy. Both are funny. Sorry for all you humorless cry babies.
@14
Right. In order for this to make sense, it would respond to a cover that hypes truths about the Obamas... Maybe one with Barack snorting a nice fat rail of coke and Michelle doing something to express her deep shame in being an American.
Hey, with their confessed pasts, Cindy & Barack have a lot in common...
If you wanted to litteralize innuendos about McCain, Cindy would have a black eye.
OK, I usually hate on Horsey, aesthetically more than anything, but also in getting the point across.
BUT... this is the first cartoon he's ever done that not only didn't make me wince but illicited a minor "right on"!
@1... hmm.. a war hero? wouldn't a parallel be the way in which the left sees mccain which isn't true? by showing him a wheelchair bound -- something that is not true -- the comic actually accomplishes this.
personally, i find neither that humorous even though i get the joke.
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