The New Jerker Magazine Fanning Flames of Ignorance and Bigotry
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The Satire below Is a Disservice to the Public:
The Obama and McCain campaigns each immediately expressed disdain for the satirical cover showing Obama in traditional Muslim attire and his wife Michelle wearing rifle, doing a fist tap, which I have grown partial to as a non traditional handshake I can actually remember how to do.
All in an oval office setting with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall and a US flag burning in the fireplace.
Just because one can make up this satire does not make it right. Yes, I meant to say right. Even if the Onion printed this, it would be appropriate for thinking people to wonder how it serves any public purpose. Appropriateness should still matter. The extreme rights of no one should completely crowd out community standards.
How much more arrogant, elitist and money mongering can any one magazine become? Can they not care about the unintended consequences of this presumably protected action?
I would cancel my subscription if I had one. Maybe we should all call up and order a subscription and then cancel it during the consideration period. It would be well earned if instead of padding their pockets due to increased circulation and driving more traffic to their web if this more than tasteless action backfired and they lost readership.
Just because they are clever and know that they are intending to make an outrageous swipe at those who believe or spread false rumors about the Obamas, does not make this acceptable. Not everyone who will see this on the magazine stands in every Barnes and Noble and other magazine racks will know all that the editors of this New Jerker edition knows or think they know. Not everyone reads everything there is to read about politics, let along understands the off the wall selfish motivations of The New Jerker in this case.
How can Obama or any of us expect his words of individual responsibility to gain a foothold if the likes of these jerks, and Jesse Jackson, can whimsically dilute the message and still benefit from the publicity, bad or good. It is a loss to society when bad publicity is profitable to individuals or companies. It is not profitable to the public,
Comment by ChenZhen on 14 July 2008:
Aw C’mon! This is excellent satire. It perfectly encapsulates all the unhinged lunacy that’s been floated out there in a single caricature, and exposes it for all its silliness. As an Obama supporter, I say bravo!
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Comment by Chief Hypocrite on 14 July 2008:
ChenZhen: Agreed, it is excellent satire and understood well by a too small group of people I count myself in. The problem is that this image will be shown all over the US and the world and misunderstood or abused by too many as Huffington Post said. It will not help the Obama cause nor educate those who need educated, however good it is.
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