The New Yorker
Here’s the new cover, courtesy of the Albany Project:
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There is much back and forth over whether this image is funny, not funny, helpful, or harmful. The cartoonist basically threw every dimwitted right-wing smear against the Obamas into one image. My own opinion is that it’s pretty darn funny.
With that said, the debate over this cover is missing the real, important issue. That is, the New Yorker is still publishing magazines and has found a way to become talked-about among people who don’t drink at the Algonquin or summer in the Hamptons.
Meg Says:July 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Shockingly enough the New Yorker is also still read regularly by people who don’t drink at the Algonquin or summer in the Hamptons.
As for the cover, it doesn’t bother me. And I don’t imagine it would do the Obama campaign any harm. And their ongoing pro-Obama coverage has probably done some good for him.
eliz. Says:July 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Yeah, a lot of us are aware that the NYer is still around and are very grateful for its continued existence.
Buffalopundit Says:July 14th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Sheesh. Evidently its readers can’t take a joke, which calls into question the jokiness of the cover depicted here.
TheRover Says:July 14th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Kinda the same image I’ve had in my head all along.
NOBAMA
keep the change
eliz Says:July 14th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Well, I worry about it. I mean, look at the discourse almost everywhere else. How does it survive? One wonders.