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VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker

Posted Jul 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  Glossies,  Politics 

(Newser) – Vanity Fair has taken a jab at the New Yorker, posting a spoof of the magazine’s controversial Barack Obama cover on its website. VF’s "cover" shows a doddering John McCain gripping a walker and fist-bumping his wife, Cindy, who cradles a pile of prescription drugs. In the background, the Constitution burns in the fireplace under a portrait of President Bush.

The New Yorker’s version showed Obama wearing Muslim garb and fist-bumping his wife while an American flag burns in the fireplace. “Heaven knows we’ve published our share of scandalous images, on the cover and otherwise,” VF editors explain in a post. “We’ve been watching the kerfuffle over last week’s New Yorker cover with a mixture of empathy and better-you-than-us relief.”

Source Boston Globe

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'Vanity Fair' has spoofed the controversial 'New Yorker' cover of Barack Obama.   (Vanity Fair)
This illustration provided by The New Yorker magazine, the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue by artist Barry Blitt, shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim.   (AP Photo/New Yorker)
Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., reaches out to the crowd after speaking, Thursday, July 17, 2008, in Seattle.   (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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