Anonymous Coward User ID: 472495 United States 07/23/2008 07:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Vanity Fair Spoof of New Yorker [ link to www.boston.com] In a little intramural joshing in the magazine world, Vanity Fair today posted a send-up of the by-now infamous New Yorker cover meant to be a satire of attacks on Barack Obama's patriotism. The New Yorker's version showed Democrat Obama in Muslim garb fist-bumping his wife Michelle while the American flag burned in the fireplace under a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Vanity Fair's shows Republican John McCain, using a walker, fist-bumping his wife Cindy while the Constitution burns in the fireplace with a portrait of President Bush over the mantle. "We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker," the magazine's editors say, explaining their spoof. "We play softball every year, compete for some of the same stories, and share an elevator bank. (You can tell the ones who are headed to the 20th floor by their Brooklyn pallor and dog-eared paperbacks.) And heaven knows we’ve published our share of scandalous images, on the cover and otherwise. So we’ve been watching the kerfuffle over last week’s New Yorker cover with a mixture of empathy and better-you-than-us relief. "We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear, but we shelved it when The New Yorker’s became the “It Girl” of the blogosphere. Now, however, in a selfless act of solidarity with our downstairs neighbors here at the Condé Nast building, we’d like to share it with you." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 454051 United States 07/23/2008 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vanity Fair Spoof of New Yorker Sorry, but they missed the mark. McCain, and Cindy would be the last two you would expect to do the "fist bump." That is just not their style. Doesn't come across as the McCain persona, unlike the New Yorker cover which indeed represents the image a lot of people have in their mind of the Obamas. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 452321 United States 07/23/2008 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vanity Fair Spoof of New Yorker Sorry, but they missed the mark. McCain, and Cindy would be the last two you would expect to do the "fist bump." That is just not their style. Doesn't come across as the McCain persona, unlike the New Yorker cover which indeed represents the image a lot of people have in their mind of the Obamas.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 454051Agreed. And the following is obviously not true and is really lame. "We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear, but we shelved it when The New Yorker’s became the “It Girl” of the blogosphere. Now, however, in a selfless act of solidarity with our downstairs neighbors here at the Condé Nast building, we’d like to share it with you." |