Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
At this very moment, me and Kenyatta are debating New Yorker cover. She's a little more pissed than me--particularly about the Michelle Obama pic and the Afro. I think the problem is that it's very hard to satirize the rumors...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Kevin Drum on the *New Yorker* cover: > The Washington Monthly: [A] few minutes thought convinced me [that the cover] was gutless. If artist Barry Blitt had some real cojones, he would have drawn the same cover but shown it as a gigantic word bubble coming out of John McCain's mouth — implying, you see, that this is how McCain wants the world to view Obama....
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
He writess: > Ta-Nehisi Coates: Maybe white folks shouldn't draw pictures of Michelle Obama...: UPDATE: So David Remnick went ahead and talked to Huffpo about the cover and why he chose to run it: > > What I think it does is hold up a mirror to the prejudice and dark imaginings about Barack Obama's — both Obamas' — past, and their politics. I can't speak for anyone else's interpretations, all I can...
Englishman in New York (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
How Ta-Nehisi Coates could think that infamous New Yorker cover is not overstated enough to qualify as a piece of satire is beyond me. Everyone knows Obama would have a portrait of Sayyid Qutb over the fireplace before he even thought of bin Laden. Michelle Obama with a Kalashnikov? Puh-lease. According to the last completely true [...]
The Bellows (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
D’oh. As Ta-Nehesi Coates says, there was no possible way to exaggerate the smears enough to produce successful satire, something the eds should have realized. Too bad, because the obvious direction they should have taken was to produce the exact same cover, only with John and Cindy McCain.
