Barack and Michelle in the Oval Office?

Yes, Mike, it would mean a huge fall out for Fox News if they’d published this. Another example of the eternal double standard that exists on the left.

I do, however, think the cartoon is rather insightful!

And the New Yorker would have us believe that they did this to show how conservatives feel about the Obamas. Wouldn’t a conservative publication, if they really felt that way, actually do it on its own? DUH!

This just underscores the left’s fascination with trashy politics and the politics of personal destruction. They project their own prejudices on the opposition, not realizing who the real racists are.

What’s the fuss? The truth hurts?

The New Yorker hasn’t been afraid to hide its love for the Clintons. They even had a favorable article of Rush. Something is going on here and I’m sure that the blogs will figure it out if anybody does.

I love how conservatives are falling over themselves trying to show how they are above this sort of thing.

Sissies.

Limp wristed sissies.

This is funny, and as far as political satire goes, it does show what many of us think about Obama.

For satire to work there has to be an element of truth in it. This piece of satire works because it tells the truth about Sen. & Mrs. Obama!

And the New Yorker would have us believe that they did this to show how conservatives feel about the Obamas. Wouldn’t a conservative publication, if they really felt that way, actually do it on its own?

Well, no. Obviously. Conservatives much prefer whisper campaigns and ginned-up poutrage over minutiae.

Something is going on here and I’m sure that the blogs will figure it out if anybody does.

WONDER KERNING POWERS, ACTIVATE!!

Yeah, something’s going on, all right. It’s called “Defusing wingnut memes by laughing at them.”

It’s just an immunization shot.

Give a dose of the truth, then explain how it’s just a “misperception” and show that you are just mocking the paranoid Right Wing, ’cause no sane person can believe that about them. It’s a very sophisticated form of propaganda.

And that’s your own innoculation against being seen as a fool: “They’re gonna say that I’m a fool for believing this, but that’s just proof that I’m not a fool! My own foolishness, in fact, is central to my point!”

It sure seems that way. Honestly, the first time I saw the cover, I thought, “Finally! Someone had the guts to put out there what we really face!”

…And that’s what makes it so funny, Leah: The cover proclaims, “This is what those idiot wingnuts believe, all in one place, for your viewing enjoyment!” And wingnuts are saying, “Yeah! I do believe all that crap! I just wish I had the cojones to come right out and say it.”

Then the Left laughs at you. Repeat ad infinitum.

You just totally came out and made the New Yorker’s point for it–thanks heaps. You should go on the Sunday talk shows and spread the word that the cover does correctly reflect the wingnut view of reality.

This is delicious. It would have been better for the New Yorker not to muddy the waters at this point, but, seeing as how they have, I love watching wingnut heads explode.

The New Yorker just gave us a gift. Thank them. Even if they were using reverse psycology they put this picture on their cover. How many people will read the article? How many people will be impressed that a mojor NY paper showed this cartoon on their cover. If it is there it must be true. This is the way the dims have put out their false news about republicans time after time. Then they will correct (maybe) on page 33. No one sees this correction. Let’s hope the same will be true of this cartoon. Let’s hope they will be hoist by their own petard.

Senator Hatrack opined:

‘For satire to work there has to be an element of truth in it.’

Absolutely. And the ‘truth’ is a great many conservatives hold racist views of the Obamas.

The cartoon says nothing about Obama and his wife and everything about a certain segment of his political opposition. Specifically those who assert, against all evidence, that Obama is a Muslim. That Michelle hates whites. Etc. Etc. Or voters interviewed after the West Virginia primary quite candidly stating they would never vote for a black candidate.

That’s what the cartoon is about.

Cheers.

Mike whined:

I think “Arthur” willfully neglects the fact that a large segment of DEMOCRATS, liberals even, hold racist views of Obama.

I intentionally wrote ‘conservatives’ Mike. Such a label cuts across party lines including reactionaries from both parties who find common ground in extreme racial politics.

Too subtle for you? I know it’s difficult to remember a world with ‘liberal’ Republicans but such used to be case. Particularly here in Washington State. Been reading Pearlstein’s ‘Nixonland’ this past week and he makes the point over and again that ‘conservatives’ exist in both major parties and that US politics these past 40-odd years has been a head-long race to get the rightest the fastest.

I tend to agree.

Really, I despise racism (can’t say ‘hate’ these days), and while I’m sure there are those people who hold Obama’s color against him, I could care less if he was white, black, purple or green (unless he’s a martian–I’d take issue with that). I just want the next president to love this country above all else, and desire to serve her rather than be served by her.

[Specifically those who assert, against all evidence, that Obama is a Muslim.] It’s the statement “against all evidence” that I have problems with. He learned the Koran when in school in Indonesia and reflects favorably on those times. Both his father and step-father were Muslim. He has pretty close associations with Louis Farrakhan. What seems to me the most important thing here is that he LIES about not having any association with Muslims or the Muslim faith.

Dang… can’t get the “img src” code to work.

Finally! Heres the link to HuffPo story inre the Bush New Yawker cover.

Sunday talk shows, huh? I’ll humor you, DW, I’ll do it, if you want it so badly.

Mind you, it’s not what makes me oppose BHO either, just like MataHarley. There are a lot more reasons as to why I don’t like BHO, and none of it has to do with color or any other petty factor of the like. Sorry to say, I’m not the wingnut you’re looking for, but you’re welcome to keep on looking. It’s just a bit of humor, and that’s what I made my comment on - the humor behind the satire.

This i a real piece of artwork. A perfection. It really mimics the reality.

It will shame the works of Michelangelo and DaVinci. Best artistry in the 21st Century. I will go down the history as the best political art of all time.

More caricature pls, NYers. Your journalism for the first time has passed the mark, even just for the caricature.

Mike H.’s America, race is one of the central issues of American society, past and present.