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Title: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: DixieBelle on July 23, 2008, 12:23:18 PM
Ugh.

http://www.yahoo.com/s/922004

 :thatsright:
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Wretched Excess on July 23, 2008, 12:39:12 PM

the most disturbing feature of the VF cover is that GWB takes the place of UBL in the portrait over
the mantle.

(http://mtblog.vanityfair.com/online/politics/assets/Cover-McCain2-thumb-250x339.jpg)

Hires version (http://www.vfdaily.com/politics/assets/Cover-McCain2.jpg)
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Peter3_1 on July 23, 2008, 12:42:31 PM
Its' profound innaccuracy makes it funny. Without "The New Yorker" cover, it would have been moderately amusing.
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Scoobie on July 23, 2008, 01:05:58 PM
Its' profound innaccuracy makes it funny. Without "The New Yorker" cover, it would have been moderately amusing.

No, what's amusing is that both magazines are owned by the same company.

Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Tess Anderson on July 23, 2008, 01:27:29 PM
Way to go, insult the elderly - they're just the largest segment of the American population most likely to donate and vote in any election.  ::)
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Hawkgirl on July 23, 2008, 06:35:20 PM
Way to go, insult the elderly - they're just the largest segment of the American population most likely to donate and vote in any election.  ::)

Not only that, but they accentuated his cheek which was a result of his battle with skin cancer...Way to go!  Now they're also pissing off people who had a significant malady. 

Journalism is going downhill.fast.

Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 23, 2008, 06:39:32 PM
So, is Vanity Fair going with this as a satire of what the left thinks of McCain and Mrs. McCain?  Or is this what Vanity Fair actually thinks of McCain and Mrs. McCain?
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: docstew on July 23, 2008, 07:08:03 PM
So, is Vanity Fair going with this as a satire of what the left thinks of McCain and Mrs. McCain?  Or is this what Vanity Fair actually thinks of McCain and Mrs. McCain?

considering VF's editorial leanings... both
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: djones520 on July 23, 2008, 07:10:50 PM
I've gotta go with Satire.  You've gotta have a DUmmie x2 level of thought to honestly run with something like this and be serious about it, after the backlash of the Obama one.
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Rebel on July 23, 2008, 07:26:31 PM
This really doesn't bother me as much as the ****ed up cartoon of him in a Tiger cage. This is just satire. Very, very tasteless satire.
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Chris_ on July 23, 2008, 09:04:38 PM
Tasteless yes.  But then, discriminating taste requires the ability to, well, DISCRIMINATE.  Something offensive to NeoComs at any level.
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Lord Undies on July 23, 2008, 09:27:32 PM
Except for the Constitution in the fire, which is a liberal's wet dream, it looks like a normal American couple.  The drugs are legal.  The wife is loving.  There is a great American portrait over the mantel.  Where's the joke?
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Rebel on July 23, 2008, 10:32:15 PM
Except for the Constitution in the fire, which is a liberal's wet dream, it looks like a normal American couple.  The drugs are legal.  The wife is loving.  There is a great American portrait over the mantel.  Where's the joke?

I didn't see the Constitution.

Actually, after closer observation, I saw the Preamble. Yeah, it's about f'n stupid, seeing as how THIS is the party that wants to restrict our 2nd right.  :whatever:
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: Red October on July 24, 2008, 12:20:48 AM
Wow, they totally put McCain in his place with that one.   :whatever: :whatever: :whatever:  I can't believe they were witty and perceptive enough to crack an "old joke!"  What genius!  The first ones to do it, too! 

Now the New Yorker... THAT was funny  :lmao:
Title: Re: Vanity Fair hits back at New Yorker with McCain spoof cover
Post by: DixieBelle on July 24, 2008, 10:05:34 AM
What pissed me off in the video link is that they are claiming that the McCain drawing is making fun of what we know about the McCains (Cindy's past troubles with prescription pain killers, McCain's age, etc...) while the Obama cover was portraying them as things they aren't (radicals who love OBL, etc...)

Ugh. SO I guess they want us to think that the McCain one is better somehow.

For the record, I don't find any of these depictions funny or helpful. Yes, I smirked at the Obama one. But more so because it says more about the Left than it does the Right.