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One MORE Last Comment on "The Cover"

Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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One more cartoon deserves mention: Walt Handlesman's view on how a prototypical New Yorker reader ..."Urbane! ... Abstract!" ...views the cover is spot on. Check it out.

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Jon Stewart Takes On Media, Obama For Overreacting To New Yorker Cover: "It's Just A F***ing Cartoon!"

Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

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On Tuesday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took on the media and Barack Obama for overreacting to, and thus validating, the New Yorker cover controversy. ...

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A New Yorker Cover For National Review

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

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[UPDATED, below.] Andrew Sullivan pulls this editorial cartoon from David Horsey, and asks, "How would the Republican base react to this?" Of cour...

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The Politics of Fear

Lucy Carrigan | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

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We are all terrified, plain and simple, that somehow the right-wing smear campaign will succeed in defeating our candidate. We are the ones who have become... not stupid, but scared-stupid and irrational.

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Good News, Bad News and Obama

Rory O'Connor | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

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The Romanian Senate recently voted to require 50 percent of all material reported by Romanian media outlets to be "positive news." Absurd! Ridiculous! Maybe we should do the same thing here.

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The New Yorker Got it Right

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

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The great danger is that the lies and maliciousness the Obama slander sites busily fan could or has had some resonance with some voters, especially the much fought-over independents.

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The Mohammad Cartoons Then and Now: Defending Satire

Joel Whitney | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

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Even if we were offended by the New Yorker cover, we all must speak up for the right to offend. Discussions of "taste" or "respect" are insidious code words for censorship.

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