Tired Satire

I futzed around with the wording for this cartoon all day. It started out with Obama saying, “I don’t understand why this cartoon is considered funny!” and the Average Joe guy saying, “Duh. It’s a New Yorker cartoon.” It didn’t quite do it for me or anyone else I asked. The crux of the cartoon is that New Yorker cartoons often leave people scratching their heads trying to figure where the laugh is. Their cover on Obama isn’t really funny or effective satire. That said, I would never say they shouldn’t try to run covers like these. Obama needs to relax. If he’s elected president, he’ll likely see plenty of “offensive” and “tasteless” cartoons about him all over the place. The same for McCain. They may not like it, but it comes with the territory when you run for president.