I've told all my friends: The best way to fight the Republican appeals to the low information voters (even appeals that may have been unintentionally fostered onto the public by well meaning people like the New Yorker) is to flood the bloggesphere with similar parodies that use a Republican as the butt of the joke. Here are my findings of New Yorker parodies. Please pass on. . . I'm not sure that all of these are real covers. The last two most definitely are not. But let's remember that lampooning political figures and especially presidents is a long honored tradition of our democracy. We should embrace it and not get too upset about it if we can help it.
(by the way, I'm deleting my Smiles for Ben as this post covers that one and I don't want to flood our site here)
We have to learn to laugh at ourselves as well.
AND REMEMBER FELLOW DEMOCRATS, if you are still angry, there is always the option of screaming and yelling at them.
noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
Lampoon
noun
1. a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
verb (used with object)
2. to mock or ridicule in a lampoon: to lampoon important leaders in the government.
Was I the only Democrat who noticed?