This New Yorker cover “combines a number of fantastical images about John McCain and shows them for the obvious distortions they are.”
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July 14, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Is This Effective Communication? at cac.ophony.org
[...] Late update: in the interest of “Equal Time,” Edge of the American West offers [...]
July 14, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Ben Alpers
I think you need to add a Queen of Hearts somewhere in there.
“Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?”
July 14, 2008 at 1:35 pm
silbey
Next the _The New Yorker_ will have a bumper sticker on its cover about how disappointed they are in Obama.
July 14, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Sifu Tweety
No black baby? Whatever.
July 14, 2008 at 1:59 pm
eric
Everyone’s a critic.
July 14, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hey New Yorker (Magazine): How about this cover? « blueollie
[...] tip to Edge of the American West, even if a few of the bloggers there don’t care for me very [...]
July 14, 2008 at 2:11 pm
davenoon
Oh, that’s good…. I didn’t know that photoshop skills were part of the job description for this blog, though.
July 14, 2008 at 2:23 pm
bitchphd
It’s either photoshop or youtube, Dave. Better get on that learning curve.
July 14, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Sybil Vane
Black baby is slightly out of frame to the right I assume?
July 14, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Sybil Vane
sigh. Tweety pwned hours ago.
July 14, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Jesus McQueen
I think you need to add a Queen of Hearts somewhere in there.
Queen of diamonds. Not to be a little bitch or anything.
July 14, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Jesus McQueen
My tags didn’t work, and you don’t even offer a preview function. Like I’m ever commenting here again.
July 14, 2008 at 9:57 pm
ari
Warning: here comes the joke-killer. If I’m not mistaken, critics, Eric included no black babies because McCain has no black babies. Everything in Eric’s cover, in other words, is true, making it the opposite of the Obama New Yorker cover, in which everything is a fiction, a right-wing fever dream. But of course I’m very, very tired, having been on the road for a bit too long, and thus am probably wrong.
July 14, 2008 at 9:58 pm
ari
Oh, Jesus, don’t forsake us because we don’t have a preview function. You’re supposed to be the very model of forgiveness.
July 14, 2008 at 10:43 pm
urbino
And balls-to-the-wall car chases on the edge of the American West.
July 14, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Ben Alpers
Queen of diamonds. Not to be a little bitch or anything.
Wouldn’t ya know it. pwn3d by somebody else’s Lord and Savior….
July 15, 2008 at 9:48 am
Neddy Merrill
Yikes, this isn’t bad either.
July 15, 2008 at 9:51 am
eric
Yeah, I like that one. It lacks Ari’s excerpt from Standpipe’s blog, though.
July 15, 2008 at 10:05 am
"Q" the Enchanter
Too-f***in’-shay.
July 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Brandon
I could stand to see less of McCain’s ass and age spots.
July 15, 2008 at 6:14 pm
urbino
I thought those were skin cancers.
July 15, 2008 at 6:15 pm
urbino
I guess that’s the great thing about Great Art.
July 15, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Q
Man, there’s a Q “the Enchanter”? I have a case of e-pen1s envy QQ
July 15, 2008 at 11:02 pm
ari
Sorry, I was both exceptionally tired and a bit drunk when I commented last night.
July 16, 2008 at 9:15 am
New Yorker cover « Knitting Clio
[...] Posted on July 16, 2008. Filed under: politics | For those of you who are following the outrage over this week’s cover of the New Yorker, here is a wicked send-up featuring John McCain from the folks at Edge of the American West. [...]
July 17, 2008 at 8:54 am
realylife
hope the wise candidate will be win
July 18, 2008 at 8:08 am
Satire « The Edge of the American West
[...] in history and current events by ari Having smeared Eric’s photoshoppy goodness with my sodden literalism, I feel compelled to note that there are rules governing satire, just as surely as there are rules [...]
July 22, 2008 at 3:04 pm
tpb
Someone stole your idears.