6 responses

• smckenzie23 Jul 15, 2008
   

  I understand why the Obama campaign doesn't like it... because Americans are dumb.

   
• smckenzie23 Jul 15, 2008
   

  To quote the wikipedia:

   
• smckenzie23 Jul 15, 2008
   

  "A very common, almost defining feature of satire is its strong vein of irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. The essential point, however, is that "in satire, irony is militant"[2]. This "militant irony" (or sarcasm) often professes to approve the very things the satirist actually wishes to attack."

   
• Arkansan Jul 15, 2008
   

  Or maybe the smugly sophisticated New Yorker folks are the "dumb" ones.

   
• Arkansan Jul 15, 2008
   

  I heard their editor yesterday defending the cover. He just didn't get it.

   
• todd Jul 15, 2008
   

  arkansan: what don't they get? that this goes too far for satire? that this will be damaging to obama because americans actually think obama is a terrorist or a muslim or something?