Comments on: ‘The New Yorker’ and the Cry Baby for President http://www.rightonblog.net/2008/07/the-new-yorker-and-the-cry-baby-for-president/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:06:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: James http://www.rightonblog.net/2008/07/the-new-yorker-and-the-cry-baby-for-president/#comment-31550 James Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.rightonblog.net/?p=1357#comment-31550 That was the point the New Yorker was making... most of these "he's a Mooooslim!" fears are baseless and rumor... and they were satirizing the baseless fear of a candidate due to misinformation and ignorance. Had Obama gone on the record and said something like "Man! They got my bad side" or made a passing joke about it, the cover would have faded into the ether... Instead, he seized the moment and took a "poor poor me" approach and the media who are already in bed with the moron gobbled it up and it hit front page news above the fold. That was the point the New Yorker was making… most of these “he’s a Mooooslim!” fears are baseless and rumor… and they were satirizing the baseless fear of a candidate due to misinformation and ignorance.

Had Obama gone on the record and said something like “Man! They got my bad side” or made a passing joke about it, the cover would have faded into the ether…

Instead, he seized the moment and took a “poor poor me” approach and the media who are already in bed with the moron gobbled it up and it hit front page news above the fold.

]]> By: Melinda http://www.rightonblog.net/2008/07/the-new-yorker-and-the-cry-baby-for-president/#comment-31547 Melinda Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:57:26 +0000 http://www.rightonblog.net/?p=1357#comment-31547 The problem is that there is are still Americans who are out there spreading the rumor that Obama is a muslim, even as the big story about his Methodist Preacher was in endless loop. These same people are vaidation of the old statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words". Yes, sadly our population is full of people who look for the books that have the pictures in them. This is why our news papers are written on such a low level. Heck, even the Editorial pages, which have traditionally been where a higher level of thought were usually found are written on the eighth grade level The New Yorker has been stuck in 1930s elitism with condescending humor. Apparenlty their joke about how "gauche" average Americans are has given them the profits that they wished, even if it was totally blown out of proportion. Stupid, yeah but too many people don't keep up and when they see a cartoon, they buy it. The problem is that there is are still Americans who are out there spreading the rumor that Obama is a muslim, even as the big story about his Methodist Preacher was in endless loop. These same people are vaidation of the old statement, “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Yes, sadly our population is full of people who look for the books that have the pictures in them. This is why our news papers are written on such a low level. Heck, even the Editorial pages, which have traditionally been where a higher level of thought were usually found are written on the eighth grade level The New Yorker has been stuck in 1930s elitism with condescending humor.
Apparenlty their joke about how “gauche” average Americans are has given them the profits that they wished, even if it was totally blown out of proportion.
Stupid, yeah but too many people don’t keep up and when they see a cartoon, they buy it.

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