Comments on: The F Word: Vanity Fair Misses the Point: It’s not McCain’s Physique, it’s his Politics that’s the Problem. http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:29:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: dosido http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-624 dosido Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:31:27 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-624 <p>The fact that McCain is old is very much the point in my mind. The man has absolutely no command of the facts. That does affect his politics. </p> <p>What can one show and exagerate visually? age.</p> <p>BTW, I’m not ageist. If the candidate were another old guy with a steel trap memory and scintillating intellect in a wheelchair, I might vote for him (or her). But McCain’s age is specifically and definitely affecting his ability to govern, manage, be a decider.</p> The fact that McCain is old is very much the point in my mind. The man has absolutely no command of the facts. That does affect his politics.

What can one show and exagerate visually? age.

BTW, I’m not ageist. If the candidate were another old guy with a steel trap memory and scintillating intellect in a wheelchair, I might vote for him (or her). But McCain’s age is specifically and definitely affecting his ability to govern, manage, be a decider.

]]> By: alank http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-623 alank Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:12:17 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-623 <p>Absolutely bang on. The VF cover spoof is all true, not just the perspective of liberals. Exactly the opposite of what was intended by the creator of the cover spoofed.</p> <p>Both publications at one time had as their managing editor, Tina Brown, who apparently attempted to do a makeover of The NYer in the likeness of her Vanity Fair.</p> <p>Condé Nast Publications is of course a property of SI Newhouse’s Advance Pubplications which owns the newspapers in Alabama that made a tidy living smearing Don Siegelman.</p> Absolutely bang on. The VF cover spoof is all true, not just the perspective of liberals. Exactly the opposite of what was intended by the creator of the cover spoofed.

Both publications at one time had as their managing editor, Tina Brown, who apparently attempted to do a makeover of The NYer in the likeness of her Vanity Fair.

Condé Nast Publications is of course a property of SI Newhouse’s Advance Pubplications which owns the newspapers in Alabama that made a tidy living smearing Don Siegelman.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Bluetoe2 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:03:03 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-622 <p>People on the “internets” know that America’s corporate media is a sham. Nothing but pampered, preening airheads that have no historical perspective let alone any memory of anything that happened 2 weeks ago. Until the vast majority of the American public has an alternative from this sham we are stuck in the same disastorous loop. A political version of “Groundhog Day.”</p> People on the “internets” know that America’s corporate media is a sham. Nothing but pampered, preening airheads that have no historical perspective let alone any memory of anything that happened 2 weeks ago. Until the vast majority of the American public has an alternative from this sham we are stuck in the same disastorous loop. A political version of “Groundhog Day.”

]]> By: KayInMaine http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-621 KayInMaine Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:54:59 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-621 <p>The truth is a liberal bias, so therefore, the ROM (republican owned media) refuses to allow the liberals airtime. Why? Scares them…the truth that is.</p> The truth is a liberal bias, so therefore, the ROM (republican owned media) refuses to allow the liberals airtime. Why? Scares them…the truth that is.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Bluetoe2 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:39:21 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-620 <p>Why would the corporate status quo media want to discuss politics, other than the “horserace”, when they are so better skilled at talking about “character.” You know, where Obama is risky and McSame, ever the maverick, is a known and trusted commodity. America’s corporate media hates the “people” and loves their position of priviledge, fame and fortune ergo, vote Republican.</p> Why would the corporate status quo media want to discuss politics, other than the “horserace”, when they are so better skilled at talking about “character.” You know, where Obama is risky and McSame, ever the maverick, is a known and trusted commodity. America’s corporate media hates the “people” and loves their position of priviledge, fame and fortune ergo, vote Republican.

]]> By: Adie http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Adie Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:32:53 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-619 <p>s’cuse, Post + New Yorker</p> s’cuse, Post + New Yorker

]]> By: Adie http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Adie Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:31:30 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-618 <p>Good on ya Laura. “Old” is a multifaceted condition. Yeah. VF missed the point. Badly. Sure they were satirizing the Post, but their cover should have added info, not detracted from the heart of the subject matter.</p> Good on ya Laura. “Old” is a multifaceted condition. Yeah. VF missed the point. Badly. Sure they were satirizing the Post, but their cover should have added info, not detracted from the heart of the subject matter.

]]> By: KayInMaine http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-617 KayInMaine Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:30:01 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-617 <p>They’ve missed the boat alright. What they put on the cover is the truth about the McTeleprompters. The New Yorker wasn’t truth about the Obamas…at all.</p> They’ve missed the boat alright. What they put on the cover is the truth about the McTeleprompters. The New Yorker wasn’t truth about the Obamas…at all.

]]> By: mack http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-616 mack Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:04:29 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-616 <p>I thought Vanity Fair was satirizing the Post.<br /> There would be no point satirizing misconceptions about McCain.<br /> Me I got a chuckle, because in this case most of the stuff is true.<br /> Much as I get a chuckle from the Onion.<br /> The reason the Post cover was a failure was that it wasn’t true and it wasn’t funny. The reason Stephen Colbert is funny is because he is spot on.<br /> If the post had a cabal of witches (perhaps with a caracature of MoDo) brewing up the lies about Obama and the same drawing in the smoke above the cauldron - *that* would be funny.<br /> The failure was in leaving us to figure the withches part out on our own.<br /> Philosophy should require active involvement - humor is a spectator sport.</p> I thought Vanity Fair was satirizing the Post.
There would be no point satirizing misconceptions about McCain.
Me I got a chuckle, because in this case most of the stuff is true.
Much as I get a chuckle from the Onion.
The reason the Post cover was a failure was that it wasn’t true and it wasn’t funny. The reason Stephen Colbert is funny is because he is spot on.
If the post had a cabal of witches (perhaps with a caracature of MoDo) brewing up the lies about Obama and the same drawing in the smoke above the cauldron – *that* would be funny.
The failure was in leaving us to figure the withches part out on our own.
Philosophy should require active involvement – humor is a spectator sport.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Waccamaw Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:57:59 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-f-word-vanity-fair-misses-the-point/#comment-615 <p>Please forgive the o/t but the individual(s) at the wapoo responsible for selecting this pic of novak must *really* hate his guts:</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072301624.html?hpid=moreheadlines" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....eheadlines</a></p> <p>Clarabelle (sp?) the Clown, anyone? *G*</p> Please forgive the o/t but the individual(s) at the wapoo responsible for selecting this pic of novak must *really* hate his guts:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..eheadlines

Clarabelle (sp?) the Clown, anyone? *G*

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