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Thread: The New Yorker mocks Obama
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[quote=YINDUFFY,305315]Way back in 1735, when we were just colonies of the British Crown, a publisher of a weekly newspaper criticized the King's appointed Governor of the New York Colony. John Peter Zenger was arrested and put on trial. His acquittal was of great historic significance and since then, throughout our history critics have been free to comment of political figures. Many great American political figures have been ridiculed in cartoons and print while they were in office and it is sometimes disturbing to look back at how poorly cartoonists treated Presidents. The New Yorker front page cartoon is only a continuation of this tradition, like it or not. If elected, he will see himself portrayed in even worse caricatures. I think the matter of selecting our future President should be a more serious matter but by being outrageous, the cartoonist draws attention to himself. I'm sure that the magazine got a lot of free international publicity out of this affair![/quote]
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