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Obama New Yorker Inspires Stewart
After our Monday editorial meeting I bet some of my colleagues that the Obama New Yorker cover controversy would not just blow over in a few days. And it hasn't. Here's Jon Stewart on the issue. "It's just a fucking cartoon!" he says, memorably.
The point is not whether people who read the New Yorker get the joke. It's about the potency of the image, transmitted via the internet, everywhere else.
As a distraction from The New Yorker issue, Barack Obama gave campaign trail reporters his four-star film review of Wall-E after seeing it with his daughters in Chicago, writes the A.P.:
"'WALL-E' was great. Thumbs up. It's terrific. I really enjoyed it. And the girls had a great time."
UPDATE: Not surprisingly, New Yorker editor David Remnick wasted no time in pleading his case to Charlie Rose Wednesday. Remnick fiercely defended the cover as satire that was not over the heads of non-New Yorker readers. The cover felt right to him, he said, when there are many covers that don't make the cut. He also thanked Jon Stewart from the bottom of his heart.
Bloggasm posts some other great Barry Blitt New Yorker covers.
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Well it's good to see should he lose the election he can always become a film critic.
God knows there are plenty of positions open.
Posted by: Ben | July 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Coming from a publication like The New Yorker, I think it's quite obviously a parody...an unfunny one, but since when have any New Yorker cartoons been funny?
Talk about something being blown out of proportion.
Posted by: Liz | July 16, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Absolutely...Yea for Jon Stewart! It's the people who buy into the rumor-mongering, false internet emails, etc. that the cartoon is making fun of. Naturally, they're the ones who now don't "get it" and who are making all the fuss! Sad to say, people are just getting dumber and dumber. Then again, who can blame anyone for loosing their sense of humor during these last few, trying years?
Posted by: Caroline Zinn | July 19, 2008 at 09:35 AM