Volunteer Muse?

By Kleinheider Posted on July 15, 2008 at 9:39 am

Joe Lance wonders if our own Tennessee Republican Party was the inspiration for the now famous satirical New Yorker cover portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as terrorists:

The Tennessee Republican Party has created no small stir with its less-than-ironic attempts to paint Senator Obama and his wife as terrorist-connected America-haters. I thought of the TNGOP immediately when I saw the New Yorker cover. I wonder if the artist had them in mind.

A sad part to this story is that those targeted truly won’t get that they are the butt of the joke, and will fail to see themselves as the asses they have been, despite this clever mirror that has been held before them.

But an even sadder chapter is that many of those who should know better are outraged for no good reason.

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