The latest Halloween issue of a left-leaning New York news magazine called MetroLand shows a smiling Barack Obama as a vampire carrying a scantily clad Sarah Palin who has been pierced with a spike through her heart, according to World Net Daily.
And what’s with the cross hovering above the wound in “Palin’s” chest? What’s it even doing there?
I know these small magazines have to sometimes shock a little to get noticed but this is blatantly offensive on just about every level. It’s sexist and anti-Christian. But it’s OK because it’s just against conservatives. Now, I have to wonder when the Fairness doctrine passes will these dopes have to run a cover of Nancy Pelosi in skimpy clothes being killed in some grotesque way. Something tells me the combination of Pelosi and skimpy clothes won’t boost circulation a whole lot.
For the final ‘we’re all doomed…doomed I tell ya’ coup de grace, the cover has ignited controversy but the paper is saying it’s getting some feedback calling it the best cover ever. What a world. What a world…
November 6, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Well, they got the vampire part right at least…
November 6, 2008 at 4:32 pm
could you imagine if national review or the weekly standard had done something like this but the oppositte way?
November 6, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Matthew,
Please take this picture down…it’s revolting!
November 6, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Tit for tat I guess…
http://jacksterbaxter.deviantart.com/art/PP-Restaurants-Caption-Contest-101634399
November 6, 2008 at 7:19 pm
“…the combination of Pelosi and skimpy clothes…”
Note to self; stay off the internet until one hour after eating.
November 6, 2008 at 9:04 pm
That isn’t a stake through her heart, it’s a cross. An insult to Christians.
November 6, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I guess we should be aware of what is out there. But I agree with Lourdes.
November 7, 2008 at 2:28 am
Thanks for pointing this out, but I too would agree with lourdes–take the picture down. You’re absolutely right that it’s outrageous, and it’s worth pointing out that this kind of thing would never be tolerated if it were being done by conservatives (and I suspect would never have been tolerated against any woman in politics pre-Palin). Still, I felt I had to scroll down your page as quickly as possible to get past the picture, and that’s not a great feeling to have when I come to a site like this.
November 7, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Chalk me up with Lourdes, Esther and Tom. I never understand why people put up ugly things just for show and tell. You are complaining that these people have published something horribly offensive but you have just done the same thing. A description would have sufficed.
November 9, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Actually, I’m trying to figure out whether or not the cross is a compliment. I see the stake, and it looks like the cross is separate from the stake. Not knowing the context, and ignoring the smiles and attire, I might think it is an odd Mr. Obama killing a woman with a heart filled with God. Then again, that’s probably giving the publishers too much credit.
November 21, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Um–last I remembered, it was vampires you killed with a wooden stake through the heart, and it was also possible to scare them off by a cross. That makes them both vampires. The image doesn’t make sense.