Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tasteless and Offensive

The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife...

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”
What I find tasteless and offensive is both of these candidates. Tell me these are the best leaders America can produce.

Why does the McCain camp parroting back the exact words remind me of the "Petarded" episode of Family Guy, where Peter Griffin hears television comentators use the critique "shallow and pedantic," and adopts that as his standard response to everything, including Lois' meatloaf?

[Via Mack H]

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I personally believe the magazine cover shows the truth, yes truth hurts.

W W Woodward said...

Maybe I lack a sense of humor and can't recognise or appreciate satire, but I don't think the cover is funny or offensive. I think it's true and scary as hell.

David Codrea said...

What they're doing, guys, is dissing conservatives by portraying how we see him as a ridiculous distorting caricature.

That's what's really going on here.

W W Woodward said...

Well, as far as I'm concerned personally (and they don't even know me)They've hit my opinion about the jerk (and his wife) dead-on.

Anonymous said...

Malkin has a great piece on this.

How soon the outraged ones forget when the satire is aimed at Conservatives..

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/14/grow-a-pair-obama/

Kent McManigal said...

Conservative/liberal... whatever. If you value society more than absolute human rights you are a socialist. They ALL qualify.

Anonymous said...

Never trust a New York journalist even when they are 100% accurate, as this cover is.

I saw this and thought "too good to be real" then realized it might be a move in a Hillary comeback (which would be no improvment) She was getting coronation coverage up until the time she stopped (or was it suspended?) her campaign. all the best, cycjec