First diary entry in forever - and only because my comment was buried in the 2300 on the New Yorker cartoon.
My point in my comment, I'll repeat here:
Did anyone else notice that the only comment on that original New Yorker/Obama diary by the original diarist, is one where the diarist says he/she is laughing at the cartoon???
Go back and check. Reef the Dog ... Makes the post ... then ... the diarist writes a comment calling the Cartoon hilarious.
Did the diarist repent and see the error of his/her ways? Or was the original diarist's intention actually the opposite of its post - and thus ironic in and of itself? If so, kudos --- for exposing much of the left to be, yet again, as dumb as all of the right.
Or is the diarist a "concern troll" - who has mischievously exposed the left for being ridiculous?
I think the diarist's post was -- intentionally or not -- part of the satire. Great job! The posting, sarcastic in and of itself, proved the point, whipping people into an unnecessary frenzy.
The only "problem" with that New Yorker cover is the reaction.
The concern people seem to have is that, most Americans won't "get it" and therefore, this only fuels their racist beliefs.
Well ... tell me ... how will the right wing media report this story? What can it say that will frame this as a negative in any way? "Well folks, you should see this New Yorker cover? It's awesome. Everything we believe has been exposed as true by the New Yorker" ... C'mon. Seriously. What will they say? Anything they say will only expose them as bigger idiots.
The only coverage I've seen so far was an article in the right-wing New York Post ... where the coverage focused entirely on the outrage of the left.
In other words, the left is made to look like idiots for getting up in arms about something their own side published ... and the right can laugh at the internecine warfare.
Kudos to everyone for the misplaced outrage that did nothing but fuel the right's ability to laugh at us.
And that is, after all, what I believe the original diarist's intention was. Brilliant move by him/her.
Even if you felt the whole thing was wrong (sure, arguments could be made that the satire could've been more artfully handled for the best possible effect on exposing the right's nonsense) ... this has the same power as when Right-wing censors want to ban - for example - "The Last Temptation of Christ" ... All it does is make people want to see it more. It never would've gotten any attention had the protesters just yawned.