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Imagine a New Yorker cover of John McCain with really short arms feverishly throwing into a fireplace books on “Econometrics” and “Computers for Dummies.” On the wall hang photos of the Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Keating Five.
Since all is fair in love and war, let’s have Cindy McCain sprawled across an arm chair wearing a racing helmet, and one of her father’s Hensley & Co. beer distributorship t-shirts, looking quite perplexed at a rerun of “Mars Attacks” while tiny Americans run around her chair in a drunken stupor, jumping over empty bottles of Percocet and Vicodin.
Would the pundits and other Americans who found the images of Michelle and Barack Obama on the cover of The New Yorker find this cover to be “brilliant satire” as well. Unlike the cover of the Obamas, the McCain cover would be based in fact, but I doubt that satire is forthcoming.
At the end of the day, it’s all about who you respect.
Definitions:
Satire - A literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change.
Caricature - either a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness
As an African American, hoping Senator Obama could make it to the White House on merit and ability, I now see this election getting very ugly.
Betty Gunn