L.A. TIMES JOEL STEIN: I Found a Way to Make Fun of Barack Obama
While The Weekly Standard found a way - they picked on Barack’s ears in this caricature, the New Yorker’s satirical route didn’t work so well.
Joel Stein of the L.A. Times is here to help.
“I called some comedian friends to compile a guide to making fun of Obama. The consensus is there’s not yet one standout attribute to pound away on.
(McCain is old! Clinton cheats on his wife! Bush is stupid! Al Gore is a robot! John Kerry makes me feel inexplicably sad inside!), but there are areas to explore.
If we just work a little harder, and sacrifice a little bit, we can achieve greatness. We are the immature jerks we have been waiting for.
Here are some of Joel Stein’s suggestion on how to make fun of Barack Obama. He’s a nerd! He’s ridiculously earnest. He’s manorexic. He called his own grandmother a racist. His platititudes need deconstruction.
For some more suggestions and why he chose these points, check out Joel Stein’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times here.
Posted by: Mark Pasetsky
