Here is a message from DU...... You have to really know they Koolaid drinkers are steaming.....
Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-14-08 06:00 AM
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39. Here’s what I emailed to them:
I could not believe my eyes when I saw this on Raw Story, and then linked to www.democraticunderground.com . Is this the same New Yorker magazine I read frequently and held in such high esteem when I lived in NYC — 1962-69?
This is not satire; this it is swiftboating. We saw this sort of reprehensible coverage with Kerry in 2004 — the politics of destruction. Who would authorize running such a cover? What goes through the minds of people who pass judgement on the information we receive about our candidates — especially prior to either political convention?
Is it fair? Is it right? Does it come from a Republican funded magazine, employing editors, publishers, and artists who have an axe to grind? What is your excuse?
By the way, I am a Hillary Clinton (and Bill Clinton) supporter. Is there anything in the history of your magazine covers over the years that equals this kind of “political satire” for any other presidential candidate and spouse? If so, please send me the link.
I am sorry. Your cover is offensive and degrading. You own Senator Barack Obama and Michelle Obama an apology.
Respectfully,
Ellen Kimball — 69 year old woman, wife, mother, stepmother, grandmother and stepgrandmother — and pioneer TV and radio talk show broadcaster — 1957-2008.
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Another letter to the Editor of the New Yorker from D.U.
37. My Letter to the editor of New Yorker
Sir,
I am sure you have received hundreds, if not thousands of emails by now about your most recent cover. Please indulge me as I ad to the fray.
Perhaps you don’t see why that cover is not funny. Perhaps you are living in an insular corner of the 4th Estate from where you cannot see past the rolling croquet lawns of your steady high income and peachy retirement plans to the suffering of the rest of America. You live in a secluded world of New York Hip Trends where life is liberal and modern and almost everybody votes blue.
Oh, your humor is quite droll. I was trying so hard not to laugh...no, actually on retrospect it was easy to contain my frivolity because I was shocked back to reality by UNENDING WAR, MORTGAGE AND HOUSING MELTDOWN, RECESSION, A CORRUPT LYING INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT, HIGH OIL PRICES, LOW INCOME, LOST JOBS, LACK OF HEALTH CARE, ETC. ETC. ETC.
So forgive me for not laughing at your tongue in cheek send up of the neocon scare tactics hysteria propaganda. Oh, I get the joke. I am your key demographic: highly educated, New Yorker living in posh upper Westchester. But even if I live in this tony neighborhood with neighbors like George Soros and Bill Clinton, I still remember the suffering of my fellow Americans and wish, pray and hope for a better president and government.
For whatever humor you were intending, it backfired. You obviously don’t understand Fox News and the neocon agenda. You don’t understand the ignorance and lack of nuanced insight of many Americans who unfortunately are allowed, in this great land of freedom and opportunity, to vote.
So, forgive the absence of laughter. I just don’t find the present state of our country amusing.
Signed,
A Former Reader
If New Yorker issues an apology, our country will be truly in a bad state.
Free speech for liberals and Democrats. None for liberals and Democrats who use satire to sell magazines. pffff...