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About Politics
By Micah Halpern

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

This is America.
In America we satirize our politicians.
More than that- we are encouraged, even obligated, to satirize them.

The biggest compliment a politician can receive is to be noticed. Talk to McCain now and, if he's being honest, he will say that he wishes he were on the cover of a national magazine (and I don't mean Newsweek), that his name was on everyone's lips, that his cause was the topic on every news and discussion program.

No one can take the cover of New Yorker at face value - that's precisely the point.
Obama is a presidential hopeful, he is fodder for the media.
His wife, by placing herself front and center in the public eye is, by extension, fodder as well.

The cover of the New Yorker was an important testing of the waters.
It seems that Obama is off limits.
If I were Obama's handlers I would roll with the punch, laugh out loud and recognize that part of political commentary is satire and part is humor.

A large segment of Americans receive their news through the medium of humor.
It's the American way.

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4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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