Rush Limbaugh's Time Mag Cover: 'Obama's Child Rearing Technique'
Time magazine shocked the nation this week with a cover photo of a three-year-old boy being nursed by his mother as promotion for its feature article "Are You Mom Enough?"
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh marvelously lampooned this cover Friday with the headline "Obama's Child Rearing Technique".
""I ordered (uh, asked) the art director at RushLimbaugh.com to redo the time cover with the kid sucking the breast of the Statue of Liberty and re-headline it as 'Obama's Child Rearing Technique,' written by me," Limbaugh told listeners Friday.
Now THAT'S a statement neither Time nor any liberal media publication would have the guts to make!
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Rush sure knows liberals
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 9:42am.
Leave it to Rush to understand what the MSM don't or won't. An absolute genuis interpretation. Sucking at the teat of society is all liberals/democrats know.
child porn
Submitted by TruthMonger on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 10:29am.
time's cover is child porn - they better they get stuck in jail
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Love it, but . . .
Submitted by NC Boy on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 10:29am.
He's gonna get sued big time for using that kid's face.
Ummm, probably not...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 10:41am.
...something about the kid's face is already out in the public domain...
Jer would know fo' sho', I just play a lawyer on TV.
The legal protections for
Submitted by Reaver on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:09am.
The legal protections for parody are pretty strong, as long as you’re not trying to pass it off as an actual time cover its fine. After all would time really publish something written by Rush Limbaugh?
The kid's not a problem, and parody is protected...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:51am.
but they're skating close to the edge with the near exact replication of a Time cover. [Note the ending remarks below.]
That said, even the close calls will generally go in favor of the author of the parody.
The bottom line is that when you create a true parody (as seen as such
by the courts), then you are protected. Anyone, of course, may take
issue with your parody but, if suing on this basis was widespread and
effective, then popular magazines like Mad Magazine or sites such as
The Onion would have never existed for long. Mad Magazine continues
to parody anything and everything. There are even Amazon.com and CNN
parody sites. There is even a book titled "Bored of the Rings" which
is a Tolkien parody. Some well-known parody sites are:
The Onion
http://www.theonion.com
Mad Magazine
http://www.madmag.com
Landover Baptist
http://www.landoverbaptist.org
George Bush
http://www.gwbush.com
Also, see the article "Parody Sites Prevail in Court - No one likes to
be made fun of online, but when it comes to the law, you probably have
little recourse." by Matt Gallaway, Feb 13, 2001, and located at
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,9452,00.html. He wrote
there "...the American legal system has a long tradition of protecting
parody as free speech under the First Amendment. Cybersquatting laws
aside, our legal system veers toward the side of humor."
Use a similar logo or a send-up of the logo you wish to parody. I
would not recommend using the exact logo or graphic of the
business/company. When you parody, parody *everything*. :)
Rush nails it again.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 10:30am.
Rush nails it again.
Yep
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 10:46am.
Perhaps the best parody so far this year because it speaks (to steal a liberal phrase) Truth to Power.
Shoulda put an OWie face there
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:08am.
With a pack of snappin' OWies trying to tilt the tot's chair.
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cold hard metal sucking socialism
Submitted by russedav on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:29pm.
Just what any kid would love!
Parody
Submitted by truckinmann on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:13pm.
A great parody by the master of true satire. What I'm wondering is why this woman is not in jail for having sex with a child. If her excuse is that it's her child, then that makes it incest, and is even worse. If she was a conservative woman she would already be in jail. More hypocrisy in the MSM.
~Breastfeeding does not equal sexual intercourse
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:27pm.
you freak.
That woman may be nursing her child far beyond our current cultural norms, but she'll be appropriately punished once that kid hits puberty and realizes she humiliated the living crap out of him.