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Looks like that wispy-haired, old, “make-my-day punk” guy was prescient.

Colonel Haiku (e6062f) — 10/6/2012 @ 8:50 am

lol.

Rodney King's Spirit (9ce6d4) — 10/6/2012 @ 8:56 am

They are not stupid. New Yorker will sell many newstand copies of this just for the cover alone.

elissa (a3b02b) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:05 am

Well it’s not like the imflammatory cover by Spiegelman, which hid an interesting profile by Ryan Lizza, about his Chicago background.

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:17 am

That crazy Clint Eastwood!

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:20 am

Clint Eastwood is now vindicated. The leftists sure did put up a howl when he first made that remark at the Republican Convention.

Stan (103775) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:22 am

I was saying “empty suit” four years ago.

AZ Bob (1c9631) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:46 am

Spank.

From that well known conservative, errrr……wait, it’s a lefty rag.

Dayum, when you’ve lost the New Yorker AND Bill Maher (see Ace of Spades HQ for Maher’s weed joke)

kinlaw (2fb87c) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:55 am

It is an excellent cover. But, I think the fist bump cover is #1.

Anon Y. Mous (8ec442) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:14 am

I think there should be a puddle under the empty chair.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:19 am

…or a pair of weel creased pants placed across the chair seat.

elissa (a3b02b) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:24 am

The video really complements the cover…

EBL (f71fce) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:31 am

About time…

mg (44de53) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:31 am

even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile…

they will still vote for their SCOAMF though.

redc1c4 (403dff) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:35 am

Who is throwing whom under the bus, now?

Icy (fed8c0) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:54 am

This cover will turn the election. It will be in every major Newspaper in the country.

Rodney King's Spirit (9ce6d4) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:14 am

The accompanying article in the New Yorker as to why Obama did so poorly at the debate, is a must-read. Essentially, it’s the public’s fault for not being able to plumb the same depths as the president, he is too cerebral, and debate prep (homework) is really beneath him.

A sampling,

“The reason I hate campaigns,” Edley continued, “is that being right on the substance isn’t good enough. That’s why I’m an academic. Of course, Obama knows that, but it’s also a question of what he cares about. I admire him for caring more about the substance than the tactics even if it makes me grimace when I watch him. Why does he do it? Look, we all do things in the short term that are not consistent with a long-term goal, whether it’s failing to save for retirement or watching TV instead of doing your homework. It’s called being human rather than being the ideal client of your handlers. It makes it harder to achieve his goal, which is to get reëlected. But if you wanted authenticity you got it [on Wednesday] night. And, really, you got it in an unsurprising way. We know that Obama skews cerebral and that he has never liked debates as a way to engage issues. He has said that many times.”

(emphasis added…and yes, we certainly got it.)

Dana (292dcf) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:18 am

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That cover is a refreshing change of pace from a publication that in general is tilted to the left. However, I do recall their cover back in 2008 that showed an Islamic Obama fist-bumping a radical Michelle. I think that one and the current one are from the same artist. If so, that’s another refreshing change of pace, since many creative types also tend to have their heads in the clouds—ie, they’re of liberal persuasion.

By contrast, the following is not a refreshing change of pace. Not in the least. This goes against the image that most people have of the US military. Namely, that it’s not saturated with the painful lack of common sense associated with the MSM or most artistes, most creative types. It suggests the situation with Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood massacre was not a fluke, not a one-time case of political correctness gone berserk.

foxnews.com, October 5, 2012:

An Army lieutenant colonel who was on the fast track until Muslim groups complained about a course he taught on radical Islam has a legal foundation in his foxhole. Attorneys for Lt. Col Matthew Dooley, a West Point graduate and highly-decorated combat veteran, was an instructor at the Joint Forces Staff College at the National Defense University, where by most accounts he won praise from students and faculty alike. But when Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey excoriated Dooley during a Pentagon press conference in May, characterizing his course, “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism” as objectionable, unprofessional, and “against our values,” Dooley’s once-bright career effectively hit a dead end, say his backers.

Following Dempsey’s criticism, Dooley received a negative Officer Evaluation Report (OER) after acing them for the past five years, according to Thompson. In military circles, the bad OER was a scarlet letter.

Dooley is a 22-year military veteran and decorated soldier who served three generals and did multiple tours of duty overseas.

More Law Center attorneys believe Dooley was doomed by a letter sent to the White House, Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies a year ago and signed by more than 50 Muslim-American groups, including the Council of American-Islamic Relations. The missive decried what groups described as the government’s “use of biased, false, and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.”

“He has been getting a lot of support from others. I think they are aware of the political correctness that has been permeating the military,” [Dooley’s lawyer] said.

washingtontimes.com, September 2012:

…The FBI training manual changed. Nearly 900 pages of training that was considered offensive were deleted. Members like Congressman Allen West, Florida Republican, and Congressman Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, were critical of the purge.

Gohmert questioned FBI director Robert Mueller in May 2012 about the deleting of FBI material. Rep. Gohmert went to the House floor and compared the number of times certain terms were used in the 9/11 Commission report as opposed to the now purged FBI training manual. For example, according to Gohmert, the 9/11 report mentioned the word “Islam” 322 times. However, Gohmert discusses that the FBI training manual can no longer mention the terms: Islam, Muslim, jihad, enemy, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, caliphate, Shariah law.

God help us. Or I guess that should be Allah help us. Or Gaia help us.

Mark (6d5e0d) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:26 am

#17 LOL. “he has never liked debates as a way to engage issues.”
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SMH, like the Briebart Video with the kids at the rally at Madison.
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I have little hope for this Country.

Rodney King's Spirit (9ce6d4) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:26 am

“The accompanying article in the New Yorker as to why Obama did so poorly at the debate, is a must-read.”

Dana – For your continued amusement, Ace has just way too much fun deconstructing that New Yorker piece.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:44 am

Maher said it looked like the one spent maher’s million dollar donation on weed.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-rips-obamas-debate-performance-looked-like-he-took-my-million-and-spent-it-all-on-weed/

Over at PowerLine they have a Churchill quote that the lib idea of free speech is getting to say whatever you want, actually having to defend it in a debate, well heck, that’s another matter entirely-who would be willing to do something like that?

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:44 am

Everybody knows it was Mitt’s hanky that caused Obama to lose that debate. (snort)

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:52 am

perhaps someone else has already posted the link to this excellent column by Mark Steyn?

““I’d jump right on a big bird and then I’d fly . . . ”

That’s what Mitt did in Denver. Ten minutes in, he jumped right on Big Bird, and then he took off — and never looked back, while the other fellow, whose name escapes me, never got out of the gate. It takes a certain panache to clobber not just your opponent but also the moderator. Yet that’s what the killer Mormon did when he declared that he wasn’t going to borrow money from China to pay for Jim Lehrer and Big Bird on PBS. It was a terrific alpha-male moment, not just in that it rattled Lehrer, who seemed too preoccupied contemplating a future reading the hog prices on the WZZZ Farm Report to regain his grip on the usual absurd format, but in the sense that it indicated a man entirely at ease with himself — in contrast to wossname, the listless sourpuss staring at his shoes.

Yet, amidst the otherwise total wreckage of their guy’s performance, the Democrats seemed to think that Mitt’s assault on Sesame Street was a misstep from whose tattered and ruined puppet-stuffing some hay is to be made. “WOW!!! No PBS!!! WTF how about cutting congress’s stuff leave big bird alone,” tweeted Whoopi Goldberg. Even the president mocked Romney for “finally getting tough on Big Bird” — not in the debate, of course, where such dazzling twinkle-toed repartee might have helped, but a mere 24 hours later, once the rapid-response team had directed his speechwriters to craft a line, fly it out to a campaign rally, and load it into the prompter, he did deliver it without mishap.

Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum and it’s no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their “safe house” in Benghazi. Or as J. Scott Gration, the president’s special envoy to Sudan, said in 2009, in the most explicit Sesamization of American foreign policy: “We’ve got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes . . . ” The butchers of Darfur aren’t blood-drenched machete-wielding genocidal killers but just Cookie Monsters whom we haven’t given enough cookies. I’m not saying there’s a direct line between Bert & Ernie and Barack & Hillary . . . well, actually I am.

Okay, I may be taking this further than Mitt intended. So let’s go back to his central thrust. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting receives nearly half a billion dollars a year from taxpayers, which it disburses to PBS stations, who in turn disburse it to Big Bird and Jim Lehrer. I don’t know what Big Bird gets, but, according to Senator Jim DeMint, the president of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, received in 2008 a salary of $956,513. In that sense, Big Bird and Senator Harry Reid embody the same mystifying phenomenon: They’ve been in “public service” their entire lives and have somehow wound up as multimillionaires…”

http://t.co/uyYoFHXt

Colonel Haiku (e6062f) — 10/6/2012 @ 11:55 am

Romney had that handkerchief on hand to soak up the delicious tears of the Left as they watched their tin god tarnish.

Pious Agnostic (2c3220) — 10/6/2012 @ 12:39 pm

Obama needs to get Debbie Wasserman Schultz back on the stump for him, because she’s so honest and persuasive, or something.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 1:17 pm

“Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling.”

– Mark Steyn

Beyond parody. I’ll let it speak for itself.

Leviticus (a80718) — 10/6/2012 @ 1:29 pm

Half a billion dollars here, half a billion there… pretty soon we’re talking real money.

Coolonel Haiku (e6062f) — 10/6/2012 @ 1:50 pm

lol, daley… they sure put her out to pasture, didn’t they.

Coolonel Haiku (e6062f) — 10/6/2012 @ 1:51 pm

Yesterday I read somewhere that DWS has purposely been taken “off the airwaves” and is out doing an Obama bus tour of places like Parma Ohio and Des Moines. And guess who she is traveling with??? Why yes, who else? Ms Sandra Fluke is Debbie’s travel and rally appearance companion. Whatta team!

elissa (a3b02b) — 10/6/2012 @ 2:04 pm

Leviticus, I can’t tell if you are trying to ridicule Mark Steyn, but I find that quote as wonderfully incisive and uniquely Steyn’s voice as any of his writings. It does speak for itself, to me, as a great witticism.

SPQR (ed5c55) — 10/6/2012 @ 2:06 pm

Elissa – there were pix of her Glamour Shots makeover earlier today.

JD (ab8eee) — 10/6/2012 @ 2:39 pm

“Elissa – there were pix of her Glamour Shots makeover earlier today.”

JD – You can’t fix stupid.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:16 pm

SPQR #30 – if *your* Hero has just shown that his feet of clay are mostly cheap harsh sand with a thin clay-coloured skin, you are going to be bitter and cranky like Leviticus and his ilk, too …

Alasdair (2cd241) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:19 pm

Well, if the establishment is selling that Zero is the smartest guy the left has to offer, then who am I so quibble.

Ya know, I’m lookin’ at 53 man roster and they’re probably right.

scott (3375c8) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:20 pm

For Doctor Who fans:

“Don’t you think he looks tired?”

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:26 pm

Bet you Obama isn’t playing any more golf until after the election.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:28 pm

ouch! appears he’s lost one of his biggest fans…

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/152931/

Colonel Haiku (e92678) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:34 pm

In agree with Anon (at 9). We should have stopped the Obamas at the “fist bump.” It’s funnier than the empty chair.

kensei (2b8a75) — 10/6/2012 @ 3:56 pm

I just read that Bob Herbert column and it made me realize something. For most of my life as a conservative, I harbored the notion that most liberals didn’t really believe the stupid claptrap they espouse as forward-thinking political philosophy. I thought they were just playing the rubes for the perks.

I’ve now revised my theory: Most liberals really do believe the claptrap. And they apparently think that if someone, such as the President, would just sit Americans down and slap them about a bit, then we would all see that some sketchy European vision of Socialism really is what’s best for us.

However, most Americans know that’s a load of crap and no amount of smoove talk or tough-love is going to change that. Most Americans simply don’t like Socialism-lite.

So I guess what I’m saying is the total population of leftist rubes is much, much larger than I thought. The only liberals who understand what “Progressivism” is really about are at the very top of the Democratic party. They got there by knowing their philosophy is bogus and using that knowledge to manipulate the rubes in the most effective manner.

The double-plus-good of this whole leftist system is the ones at the top get to live like Kings, regardless, long after most Americans tire of their antics. Rubes are useful.

Ag80 (b2c81f) — 10/6/2012 @ 4:05 pm

“ouch! appears he’s lost one of his biggest fans…”

Colonel – Not to worry, he’s still got the coveted Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Castro family endorsements, so he’s got that going for him.

Plus the Islamists are laughing at him, not with him, which he did not expect.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 4:05 pm

@ daley @ 11:44 am,

Thanks for the Ace link. That sums it up nicely.

Frankly, if I were Obama, I would be mortified that my base felt the need to coddle me like a small child and make outlandish excuses for my behavior. It’s embarrassing and humiliating and makes the Dems look like the Party of Whiners or Weiners.

Wouldn’t you be telling everyone to STFU and let me own it, and then man up and dig in?

Dana (292dcf) — 10/6/2012 @ 4:10 pm

I gotta say I think Michael Ramirez did it better.

QuadGMoto (3eb042) — 10/6/2012 @ 4:21 pm

Dana – That’s gonna leave a mark.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/6/2012 @ 4:23 pm

Ag80,

I think virtually all liberals believe their PC/socialist rhetoric — not only because they are being taught it in schools, but also because it is constantly reinforced on TV, in books and newspapers, online, and at the movies.

Hopefully this election will show that 53% (or more) of Americans realize how bad Obama and his policies have been for America.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/6/2012 @ 4:32 pm

obama thinks he is the black Jesus.
He is about to realize he is just black.

mg (44de53) — 10/6/2012 @ 5:00 pm

mg – stop with that crap. Not helpful or welcome.

Moby.

Pious Agnostic (2c3220) — 10/6/2012 @ 5:21 pm

46- shove it

mg (44de53) — 10/6/2012 @ 5:26 pm

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obama thinks he is the black Jesus.

Actually, Obama is so screwed up, he probably just as easily sees himself as the black Muhammad.

I’ve now revised my theory: Most liberals really do believe the claptrap

I’m not being facetious when I theorize that liberalism may be an intrinsic quirk (I’d also call it a flaw) in a person’s brain. I think that is more the case when a person has gone through decades of life (and presumably has witnessed and experienced all aspects of reality and human nature), yet still clings to a leftist way of thinking.

Speaking of which, hey, Obama, how ‘ya doing, and congratulations on reaching your 51st birthday back in August!

Mark (6d5e0d) — 10/6/2012 @ 6:08 pm

mg – I’ve rethought and withdrawn. Apologies.

Pious Agnostic (2c3220) — 10/6/2012 @ 6:14 pm

The New Yorker has done this before. Don’t trust it. Safe.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BPfMsBhpr6o/SHqcrdOPisI/AAAAAAAAAHw/T2WNDwVflQM/s1600-h/vero+possumus3.jpg

nk (875f57) — 10/6/2012 @ 7:21 pm

UW, Madison students asked:

“Do you think it was fair that Obama wasn’t allowed a teleprompter in the debate?”

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2012 @ 7:38 pm

45. I’d bet he considers comparison to the Whore of Babylon and laughs, approvingly.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/6/2012 @ 7:39 pm

My answer: Yes. It was also unfair I wasn’t the guy typing into it.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2012 @ 7:41 pm

40, 41. Faust don’t care.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/6/2012 @ 7:42 pm

Post-debate poll from PPP: Wisconsin closes to 49-47 (O – R) after debate. Within margin of error.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2012 @ 7:45 pm

18. Apart from the Marine Commandant the Joint Chiefs have made me ill for a long time.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/6/2012 @ 8:04 pm

18. Apart from the Marine Commandant the Joint Chiefs have made me ill for a long time.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/6/2012 @ 8:04 pm

49- cool.

mg (44de53) — 10/6/2012 @ 8:42 pm

President Ron Burgundy and his TOTUS.

Colonel Haiku (e92678) — 10/6/2012 @ 9:07 pm

This SNL parody of MSNBC is pretty hilarious…

EBL (f71fce) — 10/6/2012 @ 10:54 pm

26. “Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling.”

– Mark Steyn

Beyond parody. I’ll let it speak for itself.

Comment by Leviticus — 10/6/2012 @ 1:29 pm

It’s hard to ridicule such a completely accurate observation. You want beyond parody? An actual headline from June 2008:

Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy

Mark Steyn perfectly distilled what passes for sophisticated thinking in American leftist circles. Willful ignorance. I see that the fact that we just saw it lead to its natural and predictable result when they were blindsided by glaringly obvious facts of life in Benghazi hasn’t made a dent in your faith in it.

Illustrative.

Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/7/2012 @ 1:41 am

I think it’s important to note how skillfully Steyn constructed his comments. He didn’t say the left sees no monsters at all just not “out there at the edges of the map.”

They see evil monsters at the center of the map. Secured Chrysler bond holders trying to enforce their rights when Obama would rather pay off his union cronies then follow the law, for instance.

Those are the kind of people the left can hate with real enthusiasm.

Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/7/2012 @ 1:59 am

*Clint Eastwood doing raspy Khan voice* “It gets very cold indeed up in the Rocky Mountains this time of year, Mr. Obama.”

M. Scott Eiland (449af8) — 10/7/2012 @ 2:24 am

There’s a Steve Kelly political cartoon based roughly on the same idea that was printed on page 21 of the Saturday, October 6, 2012 New York Post.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/stevekelley/

That is not a Permalink – whatever is here will probably keep on changing to the latest cartoon.

Basically, there’s a television set, and a big headline taking up the screen, saying

OBAMA
SACKED
IN FIRST
DEBATE

with the very tops of two chairs and a podium to their left (on the right of the screen) visible at the bottom of the screen – the television is standing like a newsstand box on the street – maybe it isn’t a television but a newspaper box where you can buy a newspaper for a few quarters.

Maybe Steve Kelly changed his mind what he was going to draw in the middle of it. It looked a little like a television too. It’s got a handle on top. That’s too high to be the handle to open a newspaper box, which is attached below the top. And it stands on top of a small, knee high, pillar, rising from a inch or two high wide base, instead of being solid – equally wide – all the way to the bottom. Virtually a cube.

Maybe the newspaper boxes in New Orleans look like that.

Anyway, it is on the street because you can see 3 1/2 bricks, and a bigger (not red colored) blocks beneath them, and there’s a man and a woman walking away and the woman is saying:

I SWEAR
I THINK
HE DID
BETTER
AGAINST
CLINT
EASTWOOD…

Sammy Finkelman (8d9869) — 10/7/2012 @ 2:46 am

In 1972, when Richard Nixon refused to debate Democratic candidate George McGovern, McGovern staged a debate against an empty chair, but he lost the debate, and the Democrats never used it.

Sammy Finkelman (8d9869) — 10/7/2012 @ 2:49 am

True story. McGovern “debated” recorded video or film clips of Richard Nixon, and they told reporters about it in advance, but after it was over, the Democrats never released it, because, they said, he didn’t do so good..

Sammy Finkelman (8d9869) — 10/7/2012 @ 3:08 am

It’s not going to get better on his side;

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/the_master_debater_part_ii.html

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/7/2012 @ 6:13 am

You can’t make this up, seriously;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-is-worth-250-million-why-so-little/2012/10/05/64128882-0c20-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_story.html

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/7/2012 @ 6:23 am

Meanwhile, back at the ranch;

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57527150/congress-to-probe-security-flaws-for-libya-diplomats/?tag=socsh

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/7/2012 @ 6:44 am

Taking a look at the bigger picture

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/10/05/will-egypt-seize-libya-for-its-oil/

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/7/2012 @ 7:22 am

That SNL clip was pretty funny…

Colonel Haiku (e71c74) — 10/7/2012 @ 7:42 am

Yes, the SNL clip was pretty funny, but notice who they didn’t dare make fun of.

Pious Agnostic (2c3220) — 10/7/2012 @ 7:51 am

Unfair!
Those debate rules only contained “negative rights.”

desertmick (7f8a4f) — 10/7/2012 @ 9:40 am

But they’ll say, why couldn’t he bring the teleprompter

http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/05/al_qaeda_resurgent

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/7/2012 @ 10:15 am

The phrase we are looking for is “Potemkin President.” That’s what he is and that is what we have.

(For those needing a historical refresher, according to Wikipedia:

Potemkin villages or Potyomkin villages is an idiom based on an historical myth. According to the myth, there were fake settlements purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigory Potemkin in order to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.

According to this story, Potemkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the monarch and her entourage with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress’ eyes.

In modern usage, a Potemkin village is any construct, physical or figurative, intended to deceive external people into thinking that
something is better than it actually is. In such context, the word Potemkin has become a synonym of “fake” or “false.”)

Potemkin President. Has a nice ring to it, and gets the point across.

Any takers?

Bored Lawyer (78a1c4) — 10/7/2012 @ 10:17 am

67. Dead nuts on target.

Irony is this man-child libelling the great unwashed as the ‘tea-baggers’.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/7/2012 @ 10:23 am

Actually bored, Catherine was a very able administrator, Potemkin a top notch commander in all three major wars in her tenure, and there are contemporaenous witnesses that they were real.

narciso (ee31f1) — 10/7/2012 @ 10:24 am

You will always have the Choom Gang, Barry.

Bugg (642d2d) — 10/7/2012 @ 11:10 am

Heh… David Pornstache called Mitt Romney “Elmer Gantry”…

Colonel Haiku (04593b) — 10/7/2012 @ 11:13 am

President Potemkin works for me…

Colonel Haiku (04593b) — 10/7/2012 @ 11:22 am

President Gardiner.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/7/2012 @ 12:53 pm

I SWEAR
I THINK
HE DID
BETTER
AGAINST
CLINT
EASTWOOD…
Comment by Sammy Finkelman — 10/7/2012 @ 2:46 am

Thanks for that.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 10/7/2012 @ 1:26 pm

Best New Yorker Cover Ever

Except it’s not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue

“….[Saul Steinberg’s New Yorker cover art from 3/29/76, titled ‘View Of The World From 9th Avenue’] is regarded as one of the greatest magazine covers of all-time and is studied by art students around the world.”

DCSCA (9d1bb3) — 10/7/2012 @ 2:16 pm

83. Best New Yorker Cover Ever

Except it’s not.

Comment by DCSCA — 10/7/2012 @ 2:16 pm

Except it’s debatable.

It’s actually a silly thing to say considering the empty chair cover (the last I checked) wasn’t even out on newstands yet, and you’re comparing it to a cover that’s been out since 1976?

Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/7/2012 @ 6:28 pm

Disco Stu pooches the screw . . . again.

Icy (1d38ed) — 10/7/2012 @ 10:51 pm

Wasn’t there one cover, about the “three in the morning call”, where Barry and Hilly are in bed together and both fighting for the phone?

nk (875f57) — 10/7/2012 @ 11:29 pm

New Yorker cover. Barry and Hilly in bed together, fighting for the phone. Safe? You don’t have to click. http://www.krites.blogspot.com/2008/03/for-dana.html

nk (875f57) — 10/7/2012 @ 11:34 pm

One sexist joke deserves another. Mine. About as safe as the New Yorker cover. http://krites.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-can-mark-limits-of-night.html

nk (875f57) — 10/8/2012 @ 3:29 am

10/6/2012

Best New Yorker Cover Ever

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