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It was just a matter of time

The ubiquitous Mr. Crowley has launched a Facebook group to Boycott the New Yorker:

If anyone thought racism is dead, just look at the cover of this issue of the New Yorker. Try to call it satire all they want, but who are they kidding!

The idea that we can have the African-American as president of our country should be a time of celebration. Obviously, the New Yorker would prefer a minstrel show. Hey, it's only satire, right?

OK, so we've got Will crowing (see the first comment here) about never having read the New Yorker (after all, why should we subsidize, or even cultivate, intellectual curiosity?). And Pat's now saying that no one should buy the New Yorker.

Maybe I've got a soft spot for satirists, of different political stripes, but I'll buy into this cover as a satire.

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  • joe bernstein said:

    The New Yorker has declined since the days of Joseph Mitchell and his contamporaries.As I said on PDD a "fist bump"is a Maury Povitch level item in the face of terrorism,economic instability,two wars,immigration issues,energy costs,and environmental dangers.

    The satirical aspect will be missed by many if they don't go further into it.I don't want Obama to win,but I think it serves no purpose to insinuate he is a Moslem if he isn't.Without making a value judgment about Moslems,it just isn't true,so why bring it up?

    And what's with the Sixties revolutionary shtick about the wife?I am concerned with her long association with Trinity Church,but I hardly think she's the new Angela Davis.

    I think Obama's lack of experience,and far left positions are fair game and should be examined in detail.

    July 14, 2008 4:36 PM

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