Vanity Fair Cartoonist Cribs from Seattle P-I's Anti-McCain Cartoon

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By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
July 23, 2008 - 12:00 ET

Update below.

Vanity Fair magazine thought it amusing to have artist Tim Bower work up a mock magazine cover that lampoons the now-infamous satirical depiction of Sen. Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife as a gun-slinging leftist radical (h/t Marc Ambinder). In Bower's cartoon, McCain clutches a walker while his wife waits with vials of prescription medicine. A George W. Bush portrait hangs above the fireplace in which the U.S. Constitution is ablaze. Hmm, sounds really familiar for some reason.

I'm not sure if its because leftists lack originality or Vanity Fair doesn't read West Coast publications, but the parody heavily cribs from Seattle Post-Intelligencer David Horsey's July 15 illustration.

Here are the illustrations side by side:

David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | NewsBusters.org Tim Bower, Vanity Fair cartoon | NewsBusters.org

Update: Seattle P-I online reporter and blogger Mónica Guzmán has her take up at the P-I's Big Blog here.


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I think it's a funny

July 23, 2008 - 12:32 ET by balboa

I think it's a funny juxtaposition of the Obama cartoon.

Wouldn't it be silly to get just as upset about this cartoon as some people got about the Obama cartoon?

I guess liberal elitists

July 23, 2008 - 13:05 ET by Apache

I guess liberal elitists think conservatives get as outraged as they do when their representatives get poked at. But I think, and comedians will often confirm this, that comedians get more hissy fits thrown at them when they take a jab at a liberal than when they take a jab at a conservative. Conservatives are safe targets because they can laugh at themselves and like their candidates to receive a trial by fire rather than artificial and undeserved adulation that liberals heap onto their candidates.

Why is the Constitution

July 23, 2008 - 14:09 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls

Why is the Constitution shown being burned in the fireplace? I thought George Bush destroyed it.

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Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

McCain...

July 23, 2008 - 14:31 ET by ontheright

...is just a continuation of Bush, remember? The MSM and B. Hussein O. have been saying this for months. So it must be true.

libs get really upset when

July 23, 2008 - 14:40 ET by Subsailor599

libs get really upset when they are laughed at.... I guess they don't know that every idea they have, every thing they say and do is laughable.

 

It's like a two-fer of

July 23, 2008 - 14:44 ET by Indiana Joe

It's like a two-fer of plagiarism; looks like VF just combined elements of the P-I and NY'er cartoons. No really original elements at all (unless you count the pic of W over the fireplace).

Can two plaintiffs file a class-action?   ;^)