The New Yorker’s cartoon, El Rushbo style

There’s a great picture of Rush Limbaugh standing over the New Yorker cartoon of the Obamas in the Oval Office up on the Rush Limbaugh website today. El Rushbo is standing in front of the cartoon, holding a paintbrush and a palette. It’s not that radio’s Rush is a closet Leonardo da Vinci. This is how near-sighted Liberals see it. According to the Libs and their fellow travelers in the Drive-By Media, the cartoon, which was really poking fun of paranoid Americans against Obama, would have achieved its point better had only Rush been the artist. Had the radio giant been the cartoonist depicting how Americans see who is arguably the most inexperienced candidate for president in history and his Mrs., he would have got it right on the money.

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Obama would have been depicted the way Rush Limbaugh described him from the outset--Obama the Empty Suit. Rush would never have drawn the woman he refers to on air as “Michelle, My Bell” with an Angela Davis Afro. I’m betting he would have shown her standing, well coiffed right there beside Empty Suit, decked out in an American flag embossed with the words, “Proud to be an American…Now!” There would have been no American flag burning in the fireplace, but a brochure of Hillary for President that was fed into the flickering flames. Little El Rushbo touches would have been strewn throughout the Oval Office, like a birth certificate, ownership claimed in bold script reading, “Barack Obama II”. Rush with his brand of impish humour would have outdone the paint-by-number New Yorker hands down, and got a lot more laughs than harping criticism. The picture of Osama bin Laden over the fireplace would never have been in El Rushbo’s cartoon. Bin Laden is passé, while Kenyan President and could be Obama cousin Raila Odinga is now. Obama and his campaign are more in a tizzy over the New Yorker cartoon than they were at the possibility of him losing his crown jewels at the hands of an irreverent Jesse Jackson. A master of bottom-lining it, Rush asked yesterday: “Who is it that gets upset over stupid cartoons? Muslims, intolerant Muslims.” …”Here’s the bottom line. This New Yorker cover happens to stereotype, not the Obamas. It stereotypes conservatives as racists, sexist throwbacks. That’s the intent of this cover to reinforce that Obama is a victim of right-wing haters lying about him and his wife. It is Obama and the left that kept perpetuating the notion that we are saying he was Muslim and that his wife was unqualified. “The New Yorker is selling magazines when they smear conservatives as racist and sexist. Obama gets to run around like he’ s doing and claim to be a victim, and wheeze-whine about it, by the way that’s quite unbecoming if he doesn’t get a handle (on how he) has to be a victim every three or four days to keep his popularity up, it’s going to come back and haunt him. So we are left watching all this while we are the ones who have been smeared by this. “The Obamas are not the ones being smeared in this cover. And of course the Drive-By Media, they’re all upset because you people are a bunch of rubes and idiots and you won’t understand that it is you that are being made fun of, that it’s you that are being criticized. They’re afraid you’re going to think, “Wow, even the libs think Obama is a Muslim. Wow, even the libs think Obama loves bin Laden! “ That’s what they’re deathly afraid of. Because they don’t know, they don’t have any confidence at all that you have any brains.” Meanwhile, the New Yorker got their cartoon caption, “The politics of fear” wrong. The caption that most reflects the fear of Americans is “Empty Suit Headed for the White House.”