WASHINGTON – Did we miss the memo that it was National Satire Week?
First the New Yorker magazine tried to satirize some of the myths about Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama but drew widespread condemnation.
Now those funny guys at JibJab have put out their latest cartoon poking fun at the 2008 presidential campaign. Does this work better than the New Yorker? Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today!
This week’s New Yorker magazine pokes fun at smears directed at Barack Obama , but the Democratic candidate isn’t laughing.
The cover portrays Obama in Middle Eastern garb bumping fists with wife Michelle, who sports an Afro, a rifle and military garb. In the background, an American flag burns in the fireplace.
The left-leaning magazine’s cover neatly summarizes several smears that have surfaced this year: that Obama’s a “secret Muslim” who hates America, Michelle is a ’60s-style black militant.
And that fist bump, the modern version of the high five? It’s been described as a “terrorist fist jab” by a Fox News anchor, who later apologized.
