July 16th at 11:50AM
Take That, New Yorker Cartoon Department!
I suppose this David Horsey cartoon of John and Cindy McCain is about as funny as the New Yorker's cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama (or most political cartoons for the matter)...
How did McCain get dragged into this whole thing? He was actually defending Obama.
I'd like to highlight a point that nobody else seems to be making: It's really not an issue of whether the New Yorker was satirizing or disseminating Obama smears. It's that satire is a whole lot easier to recognize when it's funny.
By the way, in case you were confused, that Horsey cartoon above is satire. Trust me, it is.
(via Andrew Sullivan)
Ask
backflip
blinklist
BlogBookmark
Bloglines
BlogMarks
Blogsvine
BUMPzee!
CiteULike
co.mments
Connotea
del.icio.us
DotNetKicks
Digg
diigo
dropjack.com
dzone
Facebook
Fark
Faves
Feed Me Links
Friendsite
folkd.com
Furl
Google
Hugg
Jeqq
Kaboodle
linkaGoGo
LinksMarker
Ma.gnolia
Mister Wong
Mixx
MySpace
MyWeb
Netvouz
Newsvine
PlugIM
popcurrent
Propeller
Reddit
Rojo
Segnalo
Shoutwire
Simpy
sk*rt
Slashdot
Sphere
Sphinn
Spurl.net
Squidoo
StumbleUpon
Technorati
ThisNext
Webride
Windows Live
Yahoo!
Email This to a Friend
If you like this then please subscribe to the
PERMALINK:
RSS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/new-jibjab-video-of-obama_n_113016.html
Horsey got it right.
The difference between the NYers cartoon and Horsey's is that McCain really did sing "bomb Iran" and his wife really did steal pills from her nonprofit. However, Obama is not a Muslim and his wife is not a black panther. Satire is comedy that amplifies and exaggerates the truth. Slander is knowingly lying about someone in a way that damages their reputation. Therefore the McCain comic is satire, the Obama comic is slander.
It would be funnier if they were perscription drugs from Canada or if she said that he was kicked off his health insurance because of his pre-existing conditions.