Posted by
Bert Chapman on Monday, July 14, 2008 11:58:25 AM
The New Yorker is not a magazine I or most conservatives normally read. Given it's geographic publication location, its political views reflect the generally prevailing infantile leftist babblings of the Big Apple. This periodical's one redeeming attribute is its cartoons which satirize aspects of living in New York City and political issues including the Secularist Leftist Messiah known as Barack Obama. The cover of the newest issue, which is accessible through various online sources and may be on newstands now, shows Obama standing in Islamist dress in the Oval Office. He's exchanging fists with his wife Michelle who's carrying an AK-47 rifle with an ammo belt strapped around her shoulder while wearing an Afro whose size is so large it could probably be picked up by NORAD radar or other satellite reconnaissance capabilities. The fireplace features a burning American flag and a paternal looking Osama Bin Laden is gazing contentedly in a framed picture above the fireplace. It's a delightful example of political satire!
Obama's campaign has denounced and so has McCain's reflecting again the tendency of our political classes to not understand satire.
You've got to give the New Yorker credit for having the political chutzpah to publish this on their cover and the willingness to endure the scorn of the leftist diversity apparatchiks. This coming academic year at many universities will undoubtedly witness "teach-ins" against such "racist insensitivity" conducted by diversity apparatchiks against this form of free expression. I was reading some comments on this cartoon posted on the website of the leftist British newspaper the Guardian which are absolutely hilarious in their feigned outrage. It's nice to see the New Yorker stand up for free speech and I'd like to know if I could get a suitable version of this cover to place in a standard picture frame. If, heaven forbid, Obama becomes President, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery should consider this piece as a candidate for it's collection of official presidential portraits.