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Charles Lavoie has discovered the one answer to all the New Yorker caption competitions, which is simply "Christ, What an Asshole".
This explanation doesn't need a 10,000 word dissertation to put forward it's theories, but instead just posts the cartoons with the caption. (via Boing Boing)Charles Lavoie has discovered the one answer to all the New Yorker caption... more
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The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former Vice-President Dick Cheney delivered an extraordinary attack on the Obama Administration's emerging national-security policies. Cheney, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, accused the new Administration of making "the American people less safe" by banning brutal C.I.A. interrogations of terrorism suspects that had been sanctioned by the Bush Administration. Ruling out such interrogations "is unwise in the extreme," Cheney charged. "It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness."
Leon Panetta, the C.I.A.'s new director and the man who bears much of the responsibility for keeping the country safe learned the details of Cheney's speech when he arrived in his office, on the seventh floor of the agency's headquarters. An hour earlier, he had been standing at the side of President Barack Obama, who was giving a speech at the National Archives, in which he argued that America could "fight terrorism while abiding by the rule of law." In January, the Obama Administration banned the "enhanced" techniques that the Bush Administration had approved for the agency, including waterboarding and depriving prisoners of sleep for up to eleven days. Panetta, pouring a cup of coffee, responded to Cheney's speech with surprising candor. "I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue," he told me. "It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics."The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its... more
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Once again Stewart is the media's voice of reason.
"It's a trifle, it's nothing," Stewart said. "There's so many other things to talk about: Iraq, the collapse of some of our most prestigious financial institutions...right?" he continued, before showing a montage of the media firestorm over the cover.
Stewart also took the Obama camp to task for calling the cartoon "tasteless and offensive":
"Really? You know what your response should've been? It's very easy here, let me put the statement out for you: Barack Obama is in no way upset about the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist. Because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists! Of which Barack Obama is not. It's just a fucking cartoon!"
Once again Stewart is the media's voice of reason.
"It's a trifle,... more
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He's been a quick learner. But it's too late this time for the Democrat who wants to move into the White House next January. And then get his kids a dog.
As our Swamp colleagues report here, Barack Obama finally commented last night on the highly controversial Muslim cover of this week's New Yorker magazine. And he said all the right things. But he was about 54 hours tardy.
The controversial New Yorker magazine cover showing Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a liberation fighter 72108
Sunday, as soon as the elitist magazine released its provocative cartoon cover, Obama declined comment, not wanting to elevate it to something important enough for a candidate to speak on. Fine. But, as The Ticket promptly reported here, advisors still sent out his communications director, Bill Burton, to denounce it:
"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
The McCain campaign immediately (and ultimately self-servingly) issued a similar statement quoting Tucker Bounds as saying, "We completely agree with the Obama campaign. It's tasteless and offensive."
The cover of this week's New Yorker magazine depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing wife Michelle in camo clothes with an AK-47 and ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a portrait of Osama bin Laden while the American flag burns in the fireplace -- in the presidential Oval Office. Other than that, nothing particularly....
...incendiary in an election year full of rumors about the freshman senator's little-known past.
The cartoon has every detail that an intellectual magazine would think makes perfectly obvious over-the-top satire. And every detail that the Obama campaign would like the world not to think about or associate with its guy.
Denouncing it Sunday was an instinctive act. Genuine, to be sure. But really dumb damage control.
It was a huge PR mistake by a campaign that doesn't make many. The denunciations by both presidential campaigns accomplished one thing: They pushed a simple cartoon to the top of most-searched terms online and the top of the news lists of countless online sites, commenters, cable news shows, commentators and network TV newscasts for more than two days. No doubt it also helped the bottom line, boosting New Yorker single-copy sales this week.
He's been a quick learner. But it's too late this time for the Democrat... more
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"The editor of the New Yorker on Monday said he has no regrets about running a cover illustration that portrays Barack Obama in Muslim garb and wife Michelle Obama as a gun-toting militant, despite widespread criticism of the image.
"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
David Remnick, the longtime editor of the highly-regarded publication, told CNN's "The Situation Room" that he believes the ironic intent of the illustration will be clear to most Americans.
"The idea is to attack lies and misconceptions and distortions about the Obamas and their background and their politics. We've heard all of this nonsense about how they're supposedly insufficiently patriotic or soft on terrorism," the The New Yorker editor said. "
In a way, this cover HAS helped Obama, because he's been able to debunk all of the mythology in one fell swoop- as they say, no press is bad press!"The editor of the New Yorker on Monday said he has no regrets about running a... more
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The much-excoriated New Yorker cover is no more over the top than a thousand other satirical cartoons produced by the left and right. Political satire always goes for the gut. It's a knife fight of dueling typewriters and cartoonists' pens. It's often over the top and vicious and it's supposed to be. If it wasn't, it would be it would be a wonkish, stuffy policy discussion - boring as hell and not nearly as stress-relieving as a good belly laugh.The much-excoriated New Yorker cover is no more over the top than a thousand other... more
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The creator of The Wire discusses his inspiration, from Greek gods to a guy swearing at cottage cheese.The creator of The Wire discusses his inspiration, from Greek gods to a guy swearing... more
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Theres no question the New Yorker is an institution in the magazine industry but even a brand as powerful and revered as the New Yorker has to be careful wading into digital waters. Theres no question the New Yorker is an institution in the magazine industry but... more
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