Mmmmm gluten and the New Yorker's epic fail

[muse0fire]

Last night I went looking for web forums for people on gluten-free diets to see how they handled them, particularly when traveling and when trying to do Weight Watchers (I'm sure I gained 10 lbs in London - I indulged in Fish and Chips quite a bit). The answer seemed to be that it's very hard when traveling, especially abroad (well, duh - I'm

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[curt_holman]

I agree about The New Yorker character. I can appreciate what they're trying to do, but it just puts all the stereotypes in one image -- if it were on the cover of the Weekly Standard, say, it really WOULD be obnoxious. There's a punchline or a level of irony that's missing from the actual cartoon.

[muse0fire]

There's a punchline or a level of irony that's missing from the actual cartoon

Yes, that's it exactly. Some level is missing to make it actually clever.

And I just read a Newsweek poll wherein 12% of respondents DO think Obama is Muslim.

[fierce_rabbit]

From what I've been reading, I'm impressed with "The South Beach Diet" and glycemic index regulation. It makes a lot of sense.

The New Yorker cover is something that intelligent conservatives would find hilarious, but not liberals or moderates. If it were a painting overlooking Rupert Murdock's desk it would have been funny. One of the other "controversial" cover cartoons some of the articles have been showing has Bush in an apron and holding a feather duster and looking like a frustrated housewife at Cheney's slovenliness, reflecting a view that New Yorker readers are likely to agree with. It's a bit much to expect people to jump past their gut reaction to the cartoon and see it as a satire of what some conservatives think.

Still, I think people canceling their magazine subscriptions because of it is overreacting. We all take extreme offense far too easily these days.