Ever heard of “two wrongs don’t make a right”?

Ever heard of “two wrongs don’t make a right”?

Apparently, Vanity Fair hasn’t. All the furor over the New Yorker’s Obama “satire” cover led them to conclude that… they needed to do exactly the same thing! This time, of course, the target had to be McCain, and it had to be just as offensive. Because, you know, the most mature way to handle the offensive Obama cover — even though just about every conservative and Republican anywhere derided it — is to do the exact same thing to McCain!

Here’s the cover:

Yes, that’s McCain with bandages on his head, presumably mocking his injuries as a POW in Vietnam. Yes, he’s got a walker — making fun of his age, how original! Yes, Cindy’s got an armful of prescription pills. Yes, that’s President Bush above the fireplace. And yes, it is what you think it is burning in the fireplace.

So original. And real mature, too.

No one praised The New Yorker for the Obama cover. They got slammed for it. So why on Earth would the editors at Vanity Fair feel like attacking McCain on their cover was a good idea? Again, ever heard of “two wrongs don’t make a right”? Of course, we have to remember there’s a difference here. The media is not going to slam Vanity Fair for having an offensive cover attacking John McCain. There will be silence about this. They won’t have to deal with massive outrage as The New Yorker did, because the mainstream media will be secretly applauding the cover, even though they won’t say so in public. It’s ridiculous how openly the media is in the bucket for Obama. What’s even more sickening is how smug and condescending Vanity Fair was about this. I’m just trying to figure out what exactly they’re trying to accomplish with this. Are they trying to show off that they have the maturity of a fifth grader?

You know what, that actually makes sense, now that I think about it, because that’s probably the best way to endear other liberals to them.

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  • Shannon in AZ says:

    I’d like to think they were testing to see which side complains the most about things. I’ve always wanted to do something like that to show the hypocracy of people. You know – do something identical to whites and blacks, measure the response. Men and women – measure the response. And then point out the discrimination of anyone trying to sue me for what was said about blacks and/or women. I could then countersue for discrimination. 🙂

  • You’re thinking WAY too logically here Cassy. This is a world in which, if you don’t like something, you repeat it mockingly. That explains about 90% of what you see on The Daily Show. It also spares anybody who uses it from having to justify any criticism, propose alternatives, or for that matter even truly commit to the idea that they’re attacking anything. And it must work, because the people who use it work in Manhattan, and who can question that?

    So. Conservatives question what Michelle Obama is doing giving her husband a fist-bump. The Manhattan blue-bloods mock the questioning of the fist-bump. Other liberals, not knowing what they’re talking about, mock the mocking. Still other liberals defend the mocking, by mocking the mocking of the mocking. And then Vanity Fair finds a way to mock McCain while mocking the mocking of the mocking of the mocking.

    They’re just trying to stay in good graces with the “unimaginative Bush-bashing liberals club.” And they’re stuck on stupid.

  • RegularRon says:

    Cassy…I know this is off topic, but I thought you’d like to read this column about Michael Savage. Being that you think he should be fired. Granted it’s from a Libertarian view, which I hope doesn’t hurt your “Republican Good, Democrat Bad” outlook.

    http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.1763

  • Cas says:

    Ron, when did I say Michael Savage should be fired?

  • Cylar says:

    If Cassy won’t say it, I will. I’m sick of him giving the rest of us on the Right a bad name.

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