I go to Ionarts for the music coverage, but today’s link dump (a weekly feature for Sunday) includes this slideshow of New Yorker covers by Barry Blitt, led off by the current issue’s depiction of Sen. Obama as a mullah and Mrs. Obama as a pulchritudinous version of Angela Davis. (Well, compared to Angela Davis, most woman who are not obese, or into weightlifting, or general skankiness, look pulchritudinous.) Several of the covers are truly witty; my favorites are the caricature of the Bush-Kerry debates, with an outraged Kerry in full admiral uniform, one for Martin Luther King Day, which can be appreciated only when you know what the caption is, and one showing VP Cheney having his blood pressure measured against a DHS color chart.
But not to be omitted is Charles T. Downey’s comment in introducing the link.
Part of being President is that people are going to make fun of you and the political problems you have. Get used to it.
Tags: caricature, Ionarts, New Yorker
