Satire by Andy BorowitzJul 21, 2008
Saying he is "sympathetic to late night comedians' struggle to find jokes to make about me," Sen. Barack Obama today issued a list of official campaign-approved Barack Obama jokes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 18, 2008
We all know about this week's Controversial Satire Attempt by that wicked, bad New Yorker magazine, which critics can now bash for being wicked instead of just elitist. (Boring!) That particular faux pas rocked the ever-intertwined worlds of politics and publishing and seemed to prove that poking fun at a certain presumptive presidential nominee can be a precarious enterprise, if not an absolute no-no. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 17, 2008
As their medium comes under fire, some political cartoonists have responded to the New Yorker controversy with illustrations of their own. We've collected a handful of examples from around the world. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigJul 17, 2008
An expression of outrage is the highest compliment that politicians can bestow upon a satirist. So when spokesmen for Barack Obama and John McCain echo each other and many another stuffed shirt in complaining about the current cover of The New Yorker, the magazine's editors and cartoonist Barry Blitt should accept such remarks in precisely that spirit. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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