Who Likes Barack?
Nobody. He's not a likable guy. He's prickly, sour, and very tenderly full of himself. You can kiss his ring but you can't pull his leg. How can you joke about a guy you can't joke with? You probably can't, not in a good humored way, but you can mock. That means you have to dislike the guy, and the audience has to dislike him with you. Fifty percent of Americans do think he's a jerk, there's an audience out there.
But humor of it's nature, if it's mockery, is mean. And here's the PC rub: is it permissible to be mean to a black guy, a liberal black guy, even one so eminently mockable as this thin skinned thinly accomplished Barack?
Of course, No. One can not be mean to a jug-eared bozo if he's black. That would be "racist". But then, one man's racism is another man's satire. For myself I'll take my satire over your racism. And I'll chose to be a free man over a slave. No population that is afraid to mock its leader is temperamentally suited to be free. If Barack doesn't like jokes about himself neither does the Grand Ayatollah Kamenie. I don't like the Ayatollah and I don't like Barack, and besides, how do I know he doesn't like goats? He grew up in Indonesia, after all, and that's not America. I heard it said once that Bin Laden liked goats, --and people laughed. We do know that Barack likes Barack.
But I'm pretty sure the New Yorker doesn't like Barack. The cover cartoon that supposedly was mocking right wing attitudes towards the Obama's was in fact mocking the anointed one and spouse by the simple argument that they were the only ones on the cover. To assert, later, that this drawing simply illustrates the right wing's unfair stereotyping and paranoia is simply to assert, later, that this drawing illustrates the right ring's unfair stereotyping and paranoia. In fact the drawing is mocking Obama and wife, and only Obama and wife. Those so very sophisticated so very intelligent types who say: "Oh, I get it," don't get it; the cartoon mocks the messiah: and saying: "This is what the right wing thinks" merely makes the mockery PC acceptable.
Mockery was intended. In the same way that many on the left don't like Hillary there are many on the left who don't like Obama. It's just that it's very hard to criticize a black guy, so it has to be done by subterfuge and indirection. But the New Yorker, and I think now many in New York, really don't like that guy. The reasons aren't clear but they can be guessed. Some might be a mere Hillary preference, but I think most of it is pure Obama distaste. He's a new guy on the block, and an outsider. He's Chicago, and Chicago is trying to pull this off with no East Coast help at all. And of one thing I'm absolutely certain: the powers in the East are far more concerned that they keep their power within the left, than they are that there be a Democrat president rather than a Republican.
But humor of it's nature, if it's mockery, is mean. And here's the PC rub: is it permissible to be mean to a black guy, a liberal black guy, even one so eminently mockable as this thin skinned thinly accomplished Barack?
Of course, No. One can not be mean to a jug-eared bozo if he's black. That would be "racist". But then, one man's racism is another man's satire. For myself I'll take my satire over your racism. And I'll chose to be a free man over a slave. No population that is afraid to mock its leader is temperamentally suited to be free. If Barack doesn't like jokes about himself neither does the Grand Ayatollah Kamenie. I don't like the Ayatollah and I don't like Barack, and besides, how do I know he doesn't like goats? He grew up in Indonesia, after all, and that's not America. I heard it said once that Bin Laden liked goats, --and people laughed. We do know that Barack likes Barack.
But I'm pretty sure the New Yorker doesn't like Barack. The cover cartoon that supposedly was mocking right wing attitudes towards the Obama's was in fact mocking the anointed one and spouse by the simple argument that they were the only ones on the cover. To assert, later, that this drawing simply illustrates the right wing's unfair stereotyping and paranoia is simply to assert, later, that this drawing illustrates the right ring's unfair stereotyping and paranoia. In fact the drawing is mocking Obama and wife, and only Obama and wife. Those so very sophisticated so very intelligent types who say: "Oh, I get it," don't get it; the cartoon mocks the messiah: and saying: "This is what the right wing thinks" merely makes the mockery PC acceptable.
Mockery was intended. In the same way that many on the left don't like Hillary there are many on the left who don't like Obama. It's just that it's very hard to criticize a black guy, so it has to be done by subterfuge and indirection. But the New Yorker, and I think now many in New York, really don't like that guy. The reasons aren't clear but they can be guessed. Some might be a mere Hillary preference, but I think most of it is pure Obama distaste. He's a new guy on the block, and an outsider. He's Chicago, and Chicago is trying to pull this off with no East Coast help at all. And of one thing I'm absolutely certain: the powers in the East are far more concerned that they keep their power within the left, than they are that there be a Democrat president rather than a Republican.
posted by mouse at 3:24 PM
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