Reactions to McCain Vanity Fair Cover
by Sean Hackbarth
Ken Shepherd notices Vanity Fair’s McCain cover looks a lot like a 07.15.08 Seattle Post-Intelligencer political cartoon. Yes, not much originality among the Left.
Jim Geraghty doesn’t like VF equating President Bush with Osama bin Laden.
Party Ben at Mother Jones‘ The Riff thinks the cover is funny. Oh, well. Not everyone has a good sense of humor.
Alan Stewart Carl goes on a sarcastic anti-VF rant.
Daniel Larison doesn’t think the VF parody is good because The New Yorker cover was a satire. Like making a copy of a copy a parody of a satire loses its punch. [via Andrew Sullivan]
Brodiemash enjoys comic art and asks his readers which cover is better.
[…] The real target here is the famous Barack Obama New Yorker cover which caused such controversy last week. Vanity Fair is making fun of them, but by doing so will be guilty of the same poor judgment in some people’s minds. Reactions are mixed. […]