An arrow and the words “Barack Mao Ze Hussein Obama” would have been helpful too. Looks like a guy I dated in college. Not like the Democratic nominee for Pres.

I think the whole thing is a huge brilliant satire bomb.

I am glad to see the twisted panties exposed on both sides of the aisle.

It’s not quite that, but they’re playing with iconography they plainly don’t understand.

One counter example is the take off they have of Reagan in that classic Che style. That’s pretty funny. I’d cringe to see someone wearing the shirt, but at least it’s a classic takeoff of iconography used in the correctly contextual and a fairly witty way.

This? They could simply show a picture of Obama saying “DUUUUHHHHHH” and it would have the same impact. It doesn’t really make sense to anyone outside of the conservative asylum (what does China have to do with it?) and it doesn’t employ or send up or even address cultural signifiers.

You know, a high school freshman in graphic design class could make a better quality photoshop than that. I mean, the JPEG artifacts alone make it appalling.

Sigh. This doesn’t even make sense. I know what they’re trying to say, and it STILL doesn’t make any sense. Why is that? A continued and self-imposed divorce from reality tends to cause one to not make any fucking sense when one rambles on about the voices in one’s head.

That these people can even feed themselves is remarkable to me.

The fact is, here in the heartland we are enraged that the godless liberal New Yorker suggested that we believe the truth about militant Muslim Communist sleeper cell agent B. Hussein Obama X Castro Dahmer Oprah. Soon we will rise up and etc. etc.

You’ve Rick Rolled me for the last time!

John Cole posted a link to a good comeback this morning

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1792

(not a rick roll, promise)

I could have sworn Obama was a Marxist. Now he’s a Maoist? I doubt anyone will survive the purges this time around.

It’s satire!

You like that one, huh? The other images at College OTR are hilarious, and the photoshopping, top notch.

J-

I like the one of the babe in the burqa, because 1) It’s not original; Fark posters have been whipping that one out for years and 2) Um, what’s the point other than LOL ISLAM?

Yeah, conservatives have hit the funnay with the Che stuff. I’ve often considered buying a REAGAN shirt just for the hell of it; too bad I’d be funding thoseshirts.com. The one with Che and the “I have no idea who this is” caption is pretty solid, too.

Not all good, though; The Ole Perfessor has touted a “DouChe” one in the past. See, becuase you’re really making a statement against EVIL CHE! WOO! Right.

I still don’t get it. You guys are goofy.

AIYEEEE!

The images…the suck.

The formula: A picture of something bad + Obama’s face on it = TEH FUNNIZ

I could have sworn Obama was a Marxist. Now he’s a Maoist? I doubt anyone will survive the purges this time around.

It’s very simple. He’s a Muslim Marxophile with Maoist tendencies.

Where does the fact that he’s black fit in to that Arky. Because, you know, he’s black.

gbear

I don’t know that I’d call Horsey’s cartoon a very good comeback. McCain’s own staff claims “senior moments” twice a week, and we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem.

It’s becoming a hallmark of modern Republicanism that exaggerating their foibles is becoming almost impossible, especially if it’s to an audience who consumes only MSM and has to be explained the premise.

How about McCain, forgetting that Toronto isn’t part of the USA, claiming that he survived VietCong torture by giving up the names of “squadron mates” who were actually Maple Leafs?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to tell my Dad how disgraceful his retirement is.

[scoffs] I said he’s black Jay B. Don’t you know Muslim is just another word for that?

One of the conservative talking points I’ve heard argued is that Obama’s candidacy is a Rorschach Test; we as voters tend to project what we want to see in him. In that context, I suppose the picture makes makes more sense, but not teh funny.

I don’t know that I’d call Horsey’s cartoon a very good comeback. McCain’s own staff claims “senior moments” twice a week, and we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem.

The crucial part of the joke is the National Review cover. Also “we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem” is classic wingnut logic and we could use less of that.

I do love how the whole notion that right now, as we write this, there’s a Communist China that actually exists and will be hosting the Olympics in a few weeks. And that we’re basically owned by them at this point. And they were all Maoists.

But yes, Obama is Chinese. Which is central to their point.

Glory to the fighters for national liberation!

Long live independence and African unity!

Long live the independent and sovereign [nation]!

that further illuminate the New Yorker’s projection of alleged right-wing fears of Obama.

Projection my ass. Suck. on. this.

Or this, even: http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barackpantherzq2.jpg

1. The recent Colombian hostage rescue has made the plain old, standard Che t-shirt funny.

2. Raúl is totally stoked. He looks to China, notes the political and economic models in place, sees the preparations for this year’s Games, and says to himself, “Yes, Havana will one day host the Olympics. Soon.”

Freedom is on the march!

Yikes!

Patrice Lamumba and Bobby Darrin!

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking White House!

Bob Somerby disagrees.

Bob’s a little touchy. He’s generally right and, given an opportunity like this to nettle David Remnick, he’ll take it.

Righteous Bubba said,

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking White House!

I know what you mean.

But this is the way our elections now work, and the Remnicks rarely seem to notice. Repeatedly, our elections are driven by disinformation, bull-roar, high trivia and lies—often driven along by major pundits who, at their best, can’t seem to care. Let’s put Michelle in a giant huge Afro! Let’s show the two of them burning the flag! Most important: Let’s make Obama a Muslim! To them, this seems like a joke—like a sally that is tres amusant. To us, it seems more like a reprise of Al Gore said he invented the Internet—or of those Swift-boat tales.

Seems to me Bob is blaming the wrong person. The major pundits will use it to drive the false narrative!

And they are the real problem.

I saw the cartoon, I knew who it was making fun of. The people pushing the edge of this crap deserve to be viciously mocked, not kow-towed to.

I guess if Republicans had been going on for years how the U.S. Senator for the State of Illionois was a secret Commie spy that might be funny but they’ve been going on for years how the U.S. Senator for the State of Illionois is a SECRET MUSLIM TERRORIST.

Obviously they DIDN’T get the joke. Typical Republicans.

@ Righteous Bubba

The crucial part of the joke is the National Review cover.

Agreed. But is it saying Nat Rev would never do this, or that I’m a humorless lefty because I don’t find the NYer’s attempt funny? It works better for me w/o the “For all the irony-challenged literalists…” caption. How about: “The last cover a National Review artist ever draws”?

Also “we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem” is classic wingnut logic and we could use less of that.

Thanx for correcting me; what I meant was that it’s a woefully undercovered subject and as a source for humor by itself doesn’t do much. Now if she were dictating to his healthcare advisor a list of Rx drugs that should be subsidized, or she didn’t have a problem until she started hypochondriacking all the symptoms on the drug ads that accompany the nightly news, we might have something. To paraphrase Roger Ebert, drug problems aren’t funny; only jokes about drug problems can be.

I do love how the whole notion that right now, as we write this, there’s a Communist China that actually exists and will be hosting the Olympics in a few weeks. And that we’re basically owned by them at this point. And they were all Maoists.

And IIRC, Obama’s the one who said he wouldnt go to the ceremony, but Bush is going and, one can presume, McCain endorses that choice.

But OBama’s the Maoist.

Agreed. But is it saying Nat Rev would never do this, or that I’m a humorless lefty because I don’t find the NYer’s attempt funny?

I don’t think the NR would do this because it would make them look like what they are. You don’t have to find the New Yorker’s attempt at a joke funny, but I think it’s far more understandable than reprehensible.

what I meant was

I agree that there is an unlimited stash of mean-spirited fun to be had at Cindy’s expense. Unfortunately John’s already dropped the c-word and everything’s tepid after that.

far more understandable than reprehensible

Fair enough. I don’t think it’s reprehensible, it just doesn’t bemuse me like the typical NYer cover does. An opportunity missed. (I wouldn’t cancel my subscription over it–which I don’t have anyway.) And I’m their target bemusement demographic.

everything’s tepid after that

Yep. Can’t follow that act.

Someone needs to tell those would-be satirizing whippersnappers that in its 83 years of publication, The New Yorker has never run a photograph on its cover.

[…] Of course, not all satire is created equal.  […]

BushCo comes across as a LOT more Maoist than Obama does … mythologizing the Great Leader? Check. Purging goverment ministries of any & all dissidents, & replacing them all with allies? Check. An entire new department to protect the homeland from a dubious external threat, which then turns on its own people? Check. An economic sector artificially propped up & given a perpetual Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card, the entire rule-book rewritten to their tastes – then left to do its worst? Check.

All Bush needs now is a Little White Book of Quotations.
If only he could just finish a coherent sentence.