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New National Review Cover Features Dr. Obama -- Putting On A Glove...
Check out this new cover from National Review:
This is as strong an argument as any other that's been made against the public option: That Obama will be personally telling you to turn your head and cough, then sticking his finger where the sun don't shine.
Late Update: Some people have raised the matter of a recent Economist cover:
While these covers might seem similar, they really aren't the same in the ways that matter. There's a big difference between the universal fear of big needles, as compared to an index finger pointed in the air...from underneath a latex glove.
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What...like you were expecting them to be TRUTHFUL?
July 6, 2009 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pretty similar cover of The Economist.
July 6, 2009 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was just about rdy to say that.
July 6, 2009 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Except that National Review took The Economist's basic idea and OJ-fied it...
July 6, 2009 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if the graphic designer in London who drafted that cover for The Economist has ever been hit with a $40,000 hospital bill and faced bankruptcy? Oh wait, NHS doesn't have a billing department... Huh... Weird... Wonder where these Thacherites they get off opinining on our policy makers...
July 6, 2009 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nope. Sorry. Different. The Economist is saying it's going to be a challenge, maybe even that it's going to be expensive (which is wrong, but arguable); the NR cover is scatological and puerile. Obama may have some strong medicine for us to swallow (or to give us with a shot) but sorry, children, it has nothing to do with sticking his finger up our collective butt.
July 6, 2009 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
More class from the National Review.
July 6, 2009 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
America's Heath Care
Not the best, but
The World's Most Expensive...
July 6, 2009 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, if he can pull the collective heads of the congressional GNOP out of their asses by doing a cavity search, I say go for it!
PEACE
July 6, 2009 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, what's with conservatives and the preoccupation with all things rectally related, anyway? Rush routinely talks about bending over, grabbing the ankles, etc, and now this? They're a little bit obsessed with, um, their a$$holes, aren't they?
Look on the bright side: at least it wasn't a shot of Obama as gynecologist, with a pair of white female legs in the stirrups in the foreground. . .
July 6, 2009 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
You pretty much spelled it out. They are obsessed with themselves.
July 6, 2009 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."
- G.W. Bush
PEACE
July 6, 2009 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
CT: stop reading my mind, dammit! :-)
July 6, 2009 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
They are obsessed with all things rectal because their ranks are populated with a$$holes. When this is all you see about you, your view of reality gets skewed. The anals of right wing history retain many instances of this obsession almost to the excretion of other data.
July 7, 2009 9:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
They have those new one finger gloves now. Or for a few decades.
July 6, 2009 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
ever the party of self-hating latent homosexuality, just a little too ready and excited about telling butt jokes, proctology jokes. I beg to differ that this is the same as the other cover linked to. without the needed, there is a definitely allusion to a potential rectal exam here in American popular culture. I think TPM front page nails it with "bend over?"
perhaps only slighly cruder, check the time and care this guy took to illustrate a bright red donkey sphincter for yesterday's San Jose teabagging event. he screams he's heterosexual, but perhaps he doth protest a bit too much
July 6, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
oops, that was supposed to be "without the needle" (on the other cover) it plays hard to pop culture proctology jokes. if the illustration with the single digit high in the air getting ready isn't enough, "just relax" makes it plain as day an anal joke
July 6, 2009 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who gives a crap about a National Review cover.
Republicans are obstructionists and that is all there is to it.
July 6, 2009 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or is this a none-too-subtle allusion to OJ and his glove?
July 6, 2009 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just you.
July 6, 2009 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno, after seeing a bunch of posts elsewhere about attempts by the right to link Obama and Michael Jackson, MJ's "one white glove" was the first thing I thought of. The free-associative right is starting to overwhelm me.
July 6, 2009 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to admit: before I saw the cover, the word "glove" made me immediately think "They're trying to equate Obama with Jackson", given that apparently some radioheads think that "95% of the people going to Jackson's funeral are the ones taking potshots at Sarah"...via Balloon-Juice.
July 6, 2009 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, it gives them a perfect excuse to appeal to racism *and* homophobia, and tie it up with the "socialism" boogyman.
I'm surprised they didn't add Pelosi weilding a scalpel to the mix, too, to add a classy allusion to "castrating feminazis".
July 6, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this a new feature? Giving airtime to the new NR cover every month?
I really don't care what absurdities those assholes are spouting to their willing choir of dittoheads.
July 6, 2009 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't mind it. I'm not one to search out the National Review myself - but everytime I see the mag, I get a nice little jolt of schadenfreude.
They're really on their way to joining the Whigs & Know-Nothings in the political dustbin of history.
July 6, 2009 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it wrong to hope that wingnuts avoid prostate exams in droves?
July 6, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just got mine this past Friday. Clean bill of health. Booya.
July 6, 2009 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Almost as wrong as hoping that, if they do, they get them from guys with gigantic and icy cold hands.
July 6, 2009 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
They can have big hands for all I care, as long as they don't have big fingers.
July 7, 2009 8:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet. Both tasteful and family values oriented.
Of course, if the left leaning publication had attempted such a cover during the Bush years, the focus would be on the fist rather than the finger.
July 6, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
way back when Hillary was heading up
health care reform (early in Bill's
first term) a similar picture of
Hillary was on the cover of some
magazine. The pose was the same but
it was an actual photo with Hillary's
head photoshopped in.
July 6, 2009 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hooray for the public option. Bend over private insurers and get your greed impaction cured.
July 6, 2009 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, it's funny. And we're the ones laughing now.
July 6, 2009 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're talking about the new special exam that Palin explained so clearly the other day; the one to see if you're conservative enough. If you cry during the brutal and painful test you're a demowimp or a librosociocommie. If you simply say Harder you're real man of a conservative even if you're not a man, and you win. You get to spend a night with a barracuda whose teeth...oh, well, we're family oriented around here.
Just watch your back.
July 6, 2009 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Conservatives sure are gay for Obama.
July 6, 2009 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the whole idea got hijacked from a Bill Maher interview from a few weeks back where he was hammering Republican opposition to "Socialized Medicine" as invoking the image of Joseph Stalin snaping on an exam glove. They're currently incapable of original thought.
July 6, 2009 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
"currently incapable"?
That's generous. . . .
July 6, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
In case you've missed it, the new cause celebre for the R's is Shona Holmes, a Canadian who was diagnosed with a brain tumor and didn't want to wait to see a Canadian specialist. She went into hock to the tune of $100,000 to have the procedure done in the US.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/06/canadian.health.care.system/index.html
Of course, what they've missed is that if she was in the US her insurance company (assuming she was insured at all) probably would have tried to stiff her for the bill anyway.
July 6, 2009 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Re: The Economist cover.
Yeah, health care reform will hurt. But the damage could be entirely limited to the insurance companies that got us here in the first place. Fair, right?
But for some reason (OK, because of campaign contributions) any solution that fits that description is seen as a problem.
July 6, 2009 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does anyone think the majority of Americans could handle the tough decisions that need to be made with respect to our health care $$s? The amount of money wasted on end-of-life care is out of control, but no one wants to be the "bad guy" and point out the obvious. We haven't even started to discuss why Medicare reimburses >$300M a year for voodoo medicine like chiropractic...
July 6, 2009 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is as disgusting as the rush limbaugh "bending over" references. the republican party has some serious issues.
July 6, 2009 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I said over on DKos, I suppose in some ways major health care reform could be like a prostate or proctological exam...somewhat painful and humiliating for some parts, but very much necessary for the health of the whole.
Happily, we don't care much what the @$$holes think!
July 8, 2009 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink