New Yorker Cover

There is a Kurt Vonnegut story somewhere of an anti-Nazi in the Nazi propaganda apparatus who tries to satirize the Nazi propaganda by making up utterly absurd anti-Semitic allegations and stories. No matter how absurd or preposterous his tales are, though, they are taken seriously, and he quickly rises to be a key henchman of Goebbels. For the propagandist, no absurdity is too absurd.

Perhaps the sophisticated editors of the New Yorker and their artist were unaware of both story and principle, but they produced a cover that incorporates every nasty smear of Obama in the Republican canon. It's a satire they say. Ha, ha.

If so intended, what a bunch of dumb fucks. If they had been paying any attention, they might have noticed that all that stuff is gospel to the professional Republican liars.

Catch, for example, the Hoover Institute's Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell comparing Obama and McCain. Unlike Obama, he says, "Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."

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