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[lollardfish]

Ok, so I'm over the New Yorker thing. It's a well-executed cover that successfully encapsulates all of the preposterous lies about the Obamas. It's not a well-executed satire, to do that, they would have needed the image coming out of an elephant's mouth, or something.

Anyway, it didn't work as satire. But now, I hope, every time some idiot tries to spread lies, one can use the cover as counter-ammo.

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[pied-piper70.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this. I feel that in this case the image does not successfully direct the reader toward the alleged object of the satire (the people making up negative myths about the Obamas), but instead seems to mock the Obamas in the worst way possible.

I agree...There's no contextual signifier within the picture to denote that they are poking fun at the negative representation rather than at the Obamas themselves...

As the kids like to say: FAIL