Obama can dish it out but can't take it.
Yesterday the New Yorker published an astonishingly stupid cover depicting Obama as Osama and his wife as a jihadi with an afro topped off with a flag burning in the fireplace. The New Yorker claimed that it is was really trying to support Obama by lampooning the stereotypes that many hold in regard to the Democrat nominee-in-waiting. Their apology is that their visual hit job on Obama was really a hit job on anyone against Obama (read McCain supporters even though most of these canards were planted by Democrats from Hillary's campaign). As is often the case when ultra-liberals attempt to be funny, they overreach.
But the real joke here is the complete lack of any sense of humor by Obama. Everything seems to offend him and his supporters. Late night comics are not allowed to make jokes about him or else their audiences gasp in fear of offending any Obamacolyte (devoted Obama worhsipper) attending the show. So while Obama comments that McCain is confused(read OLD), George Bush lied about the war(read WAR CRIMINAL), General Petreous as misguided and wrong(read GEORGE BUSH TOADY WHO LIES TOO BECAUSE THE SURGE REALLY FAILED) and conservatives are clinging to their God and guns(I really don't know what his point was there), apparently it is not fair game to fight back.
Obama constantly rails about any attack directed at him as 'just that old kind of politics as usual' or 'I am for change, change from these kinds of political attacks'. Candidate Obama continues to cloak himself in linguistic teflon with the ready and willing media and Hollywood crowd covering his back. But sooner or later, he is going to be exposed for the what he really is deep down. And here's hoping that he isn't the stiff we have seen so far.
I once said that I thought he passed the beer test. From the way he has been acting, I was wrong. Lighten up Senator.
1 Comments:
I don't think the New Yorker overreached. It wasn't even tasteless. It was a joke, and it was funny.
Imagine the National Review creating a picture of the national emblem, putting George Bush in the place of the American Eagle, holding nukes instead of arrows, with "In Lies We Trust" on a banner coming out of his mouth, with a Hitler moustache under his beak. Is there any doubt that they were making fun of all of the people who call Bush "Bushitler" and endlessly repeat "Bush lied, people died"?
I'd probably laugh. I definitely wouldn't accuse the Review of perpetuating the attacks on Bush.
The fact that the editor of the Review had to endure an interview with the Huffington Post to explain himself just goes to show what we already knew -- liberals generally don't have a sense of humor.
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