[Rhodes22-list] Political Satire and the New Yorker is a Northeast Media?

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Brad:

Excellent reply and reference.  Too bad our former Chicago Rhodie is an
ostrich and stuck his head in the sand.  Maybe you should forward your
comments directly to Ron..., but then he would probably blacklist you?

I really liked: 
http://www.collegeotr.com/georgetown_university/rejected_new_yorker_covers_9944

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
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Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> The recent "flap" over the Obama New Yorker cover is one of the most
> amusing
> events I've witnessed in over four decades of closely following politics.
> Of course, the New Yorker cover was supposed to be making fun of barely
> educated rednecks like me living in fly-over states (despite the fact I
> was
> a subscriber for over ten years).  They got a little too clever for
> themselves.  The burning flag in the fireplace did remind me of  the photo
> of Bill Ayers standing on the US flag, the Bin Laden portrait of the fact
> that Hamas did endorse the Chocolate Baby Jesus, and that Michelle with an
> AK-47 is certainly hostile about a lot of issues.  What's lost in all this
> is what was inside the cover - it's worth reading and you can here-
> 
> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza
> 
> 
> If you read the links I posted a couple of weeks ago from a self-described
> liberal who watched Barry rise in Chicago politics, you'll understand more
> about some of the concerns expressed in the New Yorker article by some of
> his former comrades, er, fellow political pols.
> 
> It could have been worse.  Here's some covers that got rejected-
> 
> http://www.collegeotr.com/georgetown_university/rejected_new_yorker_covers_9944
> 
> If Obama wasn't such a snob, he'd have a good laugh about this and stick
> in
> everyone's eye.  He needn't worry about Jesse Jackson cutting off his
> 'nads', he have to grow a pair first! I'm tellin' ya, this is more fun
> than
> the dog track!
> 
> Brad
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