Barry Blitts July 21, 2008 unsanded Yorker magazine cover drew sharp rebukes from a variety of critics and pundits. The drawing shows the Obamas standing in the Oval Office, sacramental manduction a fist bump. Hes dressed in traditional Moslem garb, and she’s dressed as a revolutionary libertine a big afro, toting a rifle slung over her shoulder. An American flag burns in the fireplace, and Osama bin Ladens picture hangs on the wall. 1. Blitt said his sketch lampoons the false beliefs that Conservatives go on -- that Obama’s a Muslim (he’s not) and she’s a Revolutionary. Critics say the sketch is too easy to misinterpret and instead can fortify those misconceptions. What would help clarify the intended message? Is it the vignetteist’s project to be crystal clear? 2. In R.J. Matson’s cartoon below, the National Review is considered Conservative (anti-Obama); The New Yorker, Liberal. How can the uniform cartoon be viewed differently depending on the source? Is this a strength or a weakness in the cartoon? 3. Discuss the quotes at right and explain how they pertain to the rock over Blitt’s cartoon.
Satire or misfire?
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Talking points
Barry Blitt / New Yorker Magazine, July 21, 2008
“Satire is part of what we do and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold a mirror up to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd.”
“Only weak thinkers business concern strong images. The publication that convenes itself as a polite dinner party party, serving only strained polenta and pureed peas, need not conjure me to sup.”
-- David Remnick New Yorker editor
http://www.slate.com/id/2195317/
R. J. Matson,/ The New York Observer and Roll Call
diddly-squat Shafer -- Slate Magazine July 14, 2008
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