the problem the New Yorker has with doing a McCain cover ---

[rurallib]

is that the stories are true - the adultery, the bribes, the land deals, the temper, the fabulous life-style, the media's hands-off policy, the confusion on the most simple things

[patrice]

1. I'd really like to see that cover anyway! nt

[TheDonkey]

2. we are not a sophisticated enough country to see McSame lampooned

just racist satire for the Obamas.

[Olney Blue]

3. It wouldn't sell magazines.

[AZBlue]

4. The problem is that Hensley & Co is the 5th largest distributor of alcohol & energy drinks &

those two industries pay HUGE advertising costs in Conde Nast magazines. THAT'S why McCain gets a pass in the media.

[Skwmom]

5. I think they'll do a cover to illicit sympathy for McCain.

The people at the New Yorker aren't stupid. They knew the cover would not help Obama.

[emilyg]

6. That didn't stop them from doing

a Bush and Cheney cover.

[WinkyDink]

8. When they were already TPTB, clearly a normal target for satirists.

[WinkyDink]

7. Satire EXAGGERATES the TRUE. Reason #1 for the failure of the Obama cover.

It needed the obvious depiction of the HOLDERS of these opinions of the Obamas, if said holders are the "real" target of the "satire".