Blogcritics Comments on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Comment by Al Barger on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:09:24 EDT

Gyasiman- Perhaps you would dig THIS or THIS or THIS

Comment by gyasiman on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:47:28 EDT

Barack Obama is the savior of the world. black man sense is different from white man sense, therefore Americans should give this man the chance to show what he got for this country.

Comment by Heloise on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:07:52 EDT

How long did it take for THIS article to be published? My movie reviews have had problems and have had to be redone. But here's how editors @ BC work (generalizing): article submissin first. If they have to change more than two words, then they shoot it back to you for verbal or syntax repair. Two: if it is really problematic then they give you comments and you rewrite it if it wanders...which I've done in the past. Three: when the rewrite is done then maybe before the week's out it will get published, promoted and out before the news is old. Four: No one is being paid here--I get that. I thank the editors here for their hard work. I can take a ad hominen attack as well as give one, thank you very much. I have been an editor for accounting books and authors. I am a writer and I often wander...Capricorns tend to do that. Heloise speaks!

Comment by bliffle on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:02:51 EDT

#4 Lee Richards "Al, You're really all over the place with this one, so much so that I can't separate the serious from the satire." That's because Al can't separate his persona from his pose. Satire is a difficult form and Al is no good at it.

Comment by Al Barger on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:52:56 EDT

SC- You're obviously starting out way to the left to find yourself so Deeply Offended by McCain's ads. In any point of objective outlook, McCain's been somewhat restrained. It's Obama who's just absolutely lying his ass off in ad after ad. And all the less than subtle insinuations that McCain is senile aren't very nice, or true. Also, it would be a big deal if a candidate was a Muslim. I for one would be highly unlikely to vote for a Muslim for president - depending on the particular candidate. This statement would no doubt result in cries of "bigotry" or "racism" in some corners - but it's not. It's dealing with reality, and in the real world people's religious beliefs are very important to their character and actions.

Comment by SeriousConservative on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:35:41 EDT

I think the conservatives in this country have in actuality become more retarded. I mean I love Obama and I am voting for him to be the next president but the man has no competition. The McCain add's have gone too far and offended me even as a white middle aged male. But the article is ok sir you just need to be a little more on the same page. So what if Obama was to be a Muslim. There are 20,000 Americans that convert to Islam each year in this country. I feel so sad for America. What if a single man was to run for president, and he wasn't married or had any kids, its sad that we like to look at a picture painted for us on the TV screen rather then looking for what the person can do for the country......wake up retards that don't vote and vote.

Comment by Baritone on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:27:07 EDT

I firmly believe that God chose me to be an atheist. The best way I can serve Him is to deny His existence. It will be my secret and obviously unexpected way into heaven via a little side door of which even St. Peter hasn't been informed. I will then spend eternity snugly wedged under the left armpit of the "G" man confident in the knowledge that He doesn't sweat and consequently, has no BO. It'll be great. B-tone

Comment by Zedd on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:33:25 EDT

On the religion and politicians thing.... The relevance of whether you believe in God or not on how you make decisions is a strange thing really. We don't see God at all. No one does, ever. While one may believe he exists, what role would one give him in his leadership position. One may look at a belief in the divine as motivation to do the most righteous or ethical thing. However believing in when no one has ever seen cant hurt anything because your belief does not make it be. God is either real or he is not. Your believing in him does not make him more or less effective. Now believing that you are chosen to do a certain task for God in your appointment is a different thing. Either you are nuts and that is concerning or, well, just keep it to yourself.

Comment by Zedd on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:22:13 EDT

Al, Great article. Funny! I thought you were serious a couple of times and got concerned. I couldn't agree with you more about the manufactured indignation regarding this depiction. Obama and his people loved it. He got to be a victim, which "made" him more Black, and just as you said, he got to put an end to all of the nutty allegations. Even Fox has to say that the cartoons are mean... end of the line for Bubba and his dumb concerns. I don't think that the people who are supposed to believe wacky stuff about Obama read the New Yorker, neither are the people who are seriously offended by the cover. It really wouldn't matter what was printed about him, one group would truly think he was the devil and the other group, the messiah. Verdict, both groups... dumb as dirt.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:55:07 EDT

Bit hard to boat recreationally when 'mild' weather is a Category 5 hurricane...

Comment by Clavos on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:16:17 EDT

Especially GW. Think how much more water there will be for recreational boating! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!

Comment by Dan Miller on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:32:05 EDT

Baronius, Your comments are very distressing. I was so much looking forward to both. Dan

Comment by Baronius on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:28:24 EDT

Dan, I believe that it's several years off (the opera). I just can't imagine it actually happening (the opera or global warming).

Comment by Dan Miller on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:07:01 EDT

Baronius, I can't wait. Do you think it will be performed prior to the end of the world? Should it become a major motion picture, perhaps I will have an opportunity to watch it on DVD. We live in Panama at about 3,200 feet above sea level, so even with global warming-induced flooding, it should be possible to do so. I wait with "baited" (we will need all the fish we can catch) breath! Dan

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:47 EDT

Riiiight...

Comment by Marcia Neil on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:41:46 EDT

It is somewhat apparent that Obama also wishes to investigate the entertainment industry, an effort that is sociopolitically long overdue. The 'bebop' jazz era was accurately documented as the original instrumental recordings of various artists, but following generations of listeners, schooled musicians and factory owners have been liberal in their takings and usage of any original music recordings found lying around. Since a large number of such finds are recordings solely of human vocalizations not yet adapted to mechanical instrument presentation, the very big business of entertainment showcasing has ignored copyright law and the general population's right to have truth-in-advertising ('tia'). E.g., your original audiotape lying in a park is someone else's big-payroll hit parade.

Comment by Baronius on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:21:29 EDT

The Kennedy Center was an Eisenhower creation opened in the Nixon years, but as usual the Kennedy myth supercedes all such realities. There's an opera in the works based on the movie "An Inconvenient Truth". So we may have a former veep as a character in an opera.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:29:01 EDT

Not only has it been performed there, Dan, the Kennedy Center actually commissioned the piece together with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Houston Grand Opera.

Comment by Dan Miller on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:14:43 EDT

Doc, Yes, perhaps President Nixon was the only president about whom an opera was written; I accept your thesis without reservation, even though Jefferson was a principal character in 1776, a mere musical production not rising to the level of opera. Query: was the Nixon opera performed at the Kennedy Center? Bipartisan culture is what we need. Dan

Comment by Baritone on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:41:34 EDT

Well, I'll be darned! Whooda thunk?

Comment by pablo on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:29:26 EDT

On the minor subject of his dishonor Richard M Nixon. How many of you politicos out there know how Nixon got his start? There was an ad placed in the paper for someone to run for Congress, as in a want ad. Nixon answered it, thus began his career. FACT. Source? Nixon's own autobiography where he revealed it. Who funded the Ad? A group calling itself (my memory may cause a misname) "Friends of California". Who headed the group? None other than Prescott Bush. Just a tad of political trivia for ya folks.

Comment by Al Barger on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:47:34 EDT

B-tone, I'm sure that Christians weren't the first to come up with some version of the idea of loving a person while disapproving of their actions. I was just ever so gently yanking your anti-religious chain. Brother Clavos - Easy there. I wasn't accusing anyone of anything. Apparently I just got that little bit sloppy in making the entry. Looking around, I see variable spelling for "inoculate" or "innoculate." One "n" seems to be the more common, though. It's all good.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:29:29 EDT

And I suppose, in a way, he did live up to his Quaker roots, what with his extricating the country from Vietnam and fashioning an Entente Demicordiale with China. Which latter also eventually accorded him the distinction of being the only American president to have an opera written about him...

Comment by Clavos on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:57:01 EDT

No, but there was more than one mention of his Quaking, though not in that context...

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Barack Obama, The New Yorker, and the Inoculation of Satire

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:42:59 EDT

the presidential candidates' religion wasn't often noted until Carter. And it shouldn't have been, because they were all Episcopalians and Presbyterians. Nixon was, at least nominally, a Quaker. Does anyone recall a big deal being made, during any of his presidential campaigns, about the potential effect of having a pacifist in charge of the Big Red Button?