My head is beginning to hurt from trying to figure out why people are so easily offended these days. Have they truly lost their sense of humor or is some of the humor too close to fact to be funny? Take for example the current cover of New Yorker Magazine showing the Obamas ‘chilling out’ in the Oval Office and sporting some of their favorite affectations.
In response to all of the politically polite shock expressed in campaign and journalistic circles [including Al Jazeera], the magazine explained that its cover was intended to spoof the absurdity of several rumors which have been circulating about Barry and Mish. They said the story inside demonstrated that, and as a traditionally Left Wing publication there would seem to be no reason for anyone to doubt their explanation. However, there are a few flies the tabloid may have overlooked in the ointment:
- A lot of people will see the cover, take it at face value, and never venture inside to read the article.
- Not all of the alleged rumors have been disproven to the satisfaction of a great many people.
- Based upon statements from the Obamas themselves, a number of pictured elements have their roots in more than just rumor.
Take, for example, the fact that Barry had, not one, but two Muslim fathers. While on one hand he may not now be a practicing Muslim, the influence clearly was there during his most formative years. On the other hand, given his long term associations with The Wrong Reverend Wright et al, it’s difficult to make the case that he fits the average person’s definition of a practicing Christian either. So much for his attire and the portrait of Bin Laden on the wall.
As for ‘the little woman’? Her statements and writings about “white oppressors” and generally anti-White attitudes only place her a notch or two above many of the 60’s and 70’s unrepentant radicals, at least two of which both Obamas still befriend (Farrakhan and Ayers, just in case you’ve been living in a bubble). Coupled with hateful, anti-American statements on both their parts, not only is her attire explained but so is the American flag simmering in the fireplace. I’m not even considering the flag pin or pledge of allegiance flaps that caused so much stir. Wouldn’t they just love to have us forget a few of those little campaign wrinkles!
I simply don’t remember a candidate for any high office, let alone President of The United States, having to defend his patriotism and even give speeches trying to make people comfortable with it; not anyone, not ever! So you see, I really don’t find the New Yorker cartoon very funny and certainly not offensive. By the way, where was all the outrage when those terrible ‘Aunt Jemima’ cartoons degrading Condoleezza Rice were published?
I think the hype promoting Barack ‘Jesus’ Obama as the second coming of the Messiah has blinded so many brain-numbed disciples that even a major magazine got trapped into believing its own mule muffins. That’s been the undoing of many a salesman. And after all, what has the mainstream media become but a horde of drooling salesmen preaching and packaging the new religion; a religion that promises a holy communion of radical change…as we morph from the land of freedom and prosperity into the Obamanation.
R.S.F.
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