Furious Diaper

Maybe today it’s a pro Democrat drawing. Maybe.

Sneak peek.

One selling point of dogs, says my friend, is that they crap outside, as opposed to filthy cats who crap inside the house. Next time he’s shivering by the back door as his dog squats in the pre-dawn cold, he should think of me, wrapped in my blanket, sound asleep.

Kurtz:

Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled “Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story.” Or that ABCand USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama’s campaign.

Perhaps it was the Newsweek commemorative issue — “Obama’s American Dream” — filled with so many iconic images and such stirring prose that it could have been campaign literature. Or the Time cover depicting Obama as FDR, complete with jaunty cigarette holder.

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The endless campaign is over, and there’s nothing wrong with the country pulling together, however briefly, behind its new leader. But we seem to have crossed a cultural line into mythmaking.

Seemed to? They jumped the shark a while ago and they’ve made the Fonz look less ridiculous by comparison. That drawing of the reporter with a hard-on was not an exaggeration, it was an understatement.   

“The Obamas’ New Life!” blares People’s cover, with a shot of the family. “New home, new friends, new puppy!” Us Weekly goes with a Barack quote: “I Think I’m a Pretty Cool Dad.” TheChicago Tribune trumpets that Michelle “is poised to be the new Oprah and the next Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – combined!” for the fashion world.

Whew! Are journalists fostering the notion that Obama is invincible, the leader of what the New York Times dubbed “Generation O”?

Each writer, each publication, seems to reach for more eye-popping superlatives. “OBAMAISM — It’s a Kind of Religion,” says New York magazine. “Those of us too young to have known JFK’s Camelot are going to have our own giddy Camelot II to enrapture and entertain us,” Kurt Andersen writes. The New York Post has already christened it “BAM-A-LOT.”

“Here we are,” writes Salon’s Rebecca Traister, “oohing and aahing over what they’ll be wearing, and what they’ll be eating, what kind of dog they’ll be getting, what bedrooms they’ll be living in, and what schools they’ll be attending. It feels better than good to sniff and snurfle through the Obamas’ tastes and habits. . . . Who knew we had in us the capacity to fall for this kind of idealized Americana again?”

But aren’t media people supposed to resist this kind of hyperventilating?

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But can anyone imagine this kind of media frenzy if John McCain had managed to win?

I think that’s a rhetorical question.

Eric Allie

“I wish Eric had the brass to use a young black girl in his cartoon with the white couple getting their mortgage and gas bills.
It was a fun point but tmidly presented.
It reminds me of how advertisers that need to make somone look smart use someone as a stooge. That someone is usually a white male. How about a cartoon that deals with that.”

I meant to address this earlier. But it’s been easier to procrastinate and avoid the subject. And I’m procrastinating here too. But I’ll get to it soon.

This is what so many people are stupidly hoping for.

What the hell is that? A zombie? An Obama bot? Is there a difference?