Vanity Fair’s August cover pokes fun at the recent New Yorker cover (see here) which generated controversy when it depicted Barack Obama and his wife in a satirical cartoon (I still say he should have laughed it off and worn that image on a T-shirt). Apparently although they are taking the mickey a little at the New Yorker’s bad luck with their cover (or is it really bad luck if it gets your magazine mentioned on every website and newspaper?) Vanity Fair says it is also a humorous show of solidarity with their fellow publication, as they show McCain on a Zimmer in the Oval Office while his wife holds a handful of what looks like medical prescriptions for the elderly candidate. (link via Sky News)
July 24th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Now that’s satire. New Yorker was a satire bypass.