Now I want a McCain edition. Just show the Grim Reaper, that’ll be best.

To be clear: the above is clearly satire… it’s just poorly done, unfunny, and unimaginative. You know, like the typical dreck you find in the excruciatingly unentertaining New Yorker.

Update:

I’ll give the nutters at NatRev $50 if they run a similar cover.

To actually be analytical, though, Horsey gets it wrong as well even in his satirical response. For example, Osama is the enemy of all Americans, hero to none; Cheney is the enemy of thinking Americans, but hero to many. Not to mention that the counter response to the Obama outrage always, always ignores the actual and continuing impact of race and gender and the tyranny of the dominant class upon the marginalized groups. Anyway, enough of the critical thinking, fuck the New Yorker for being a bunch of socially rigid ponces.

Update: Here’s how it’s done.

Update: Vanity Fair responds

I’m so glad we live in a post-racial society.

Best. Election. Ever.

The right’s attacks are de rigueur for their hypocrisy/victimhood psychology, and the left who criticizes you needs to check what’s going on in the real world before creating artificial constructs of faux acceptance and equality. Of course, being part of the Patriarchy makes it easy for me to say that bringing racial stereotypes or language such as, oh, “nigger”, into the disinfecting light of reason. So I’m saying it: let’s talk about this shit openly, instead of dealing with media campaigns about darkies fucking the white wimmin or Whitey McWhite GOP dipshits using their idea of “ebonics” in encouraging black voters (and their ho’s) to vote GOP.

Wolf Blitzer in blackface? That’s A-OK with me. At least he’s not out trying to have sex with the white wimmin or getting high on blow and crashing weddings.

Democrat James Webb’s Senate campaign accused Sen. George Allen (R) of making demeaning comments Friday to a 20-year-old Webb volunteer of Indian descent.

S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera to document his travels and speeches for the Webb campaign. During a campaign speech Friday in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen singled out Sidarth and called him a word that sounded like “Macaca.”

“This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is. He’s with my opponent. He’s following us around everywhere. And it’s just great. We’re going to places all over Virginia, and he’s having it on film and its great to have you here and you show it to your opponent because he’s never been there and probably will never come.”

After telling the crowd that Webb was raising money in California with a “bunch of Hollywood movie moguls,” Allen again referenced Sidarth, who was born and raised in Fairfax County.

“Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia,” said Allen, who then began talking about the “war on terror.”

In an interview, Sidarth said he suspects Allen singled him out because he was the only non-white face in the audience, which he estimated included about 100 Republican supporters.

“I think he was doing it because he could and I was the person of color there and it was useful for him in inciting his audience,” said Sidarth. “I was annoyed he would use my race in a political context.”

Allen campaign manager Dick Wadhams said the Webb campaign’s complaints about the comments are unfounded and he said Allen had “nothing to apologize for” to the young man.

The early supposition was that he was saying ‘macaque’ like the monkey or just some furrin-sounding type name.

Now I know that ‘macaque’ is an ethnic slur used to refer to some Africans, but I’m going to be generous here and assume that Allen was trying to refer to the macaque monkey, but is too stupid and thuggish to know or care about the proper pronounciation. Also, I don’t think ‘macaque’ as a racial epithet is very well established in the states. For one, it’s too frenchified. Like I said, I’ll be generous. After all, it is better that he’s an ignorant fucktard than a racist asshole who’s too much of a coward to say ‘sand nigger’ to the brownie’s face, right?

Nice.

Update: now they say they were calling him ‘Mohawk’ because of his hair (use the WaPo link above).

This is what Sidarth looks like:

To quote Borat: niiiice!

Update 2: general consensus is now that Allen was directly using White Power wording in a speech to his peeps. Niiiiiice.

Bonus points if you can name the pop culture reference in the title of this post