Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 12:18 p.m.

I don't get it.

Posted by c0nversazi0ne at 7/23/08 12:27 p.m.

Why try and come up with a good idea on your own when you can just steal somebody else's?

It's sad that so few things surprise me these days.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 12:28 p.m.

Unless they were both (the NYer's covers) drawn at the same time...

Very plausible that it might have been a "fair and balanced" concept from the get-go.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 12:41 p.m.

Unregistered user #154423 is right. To extend that thought, the truth is that P-I's cartoon was in itself not original. It was a parody of sorts.

For example, if Michael Jackson releases a song called "Eat It," are we really going to suggest he stole it from Weird Al?

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 12:42 p.m.

The News and the Media is who McCain is talking to when he always says,
"MY FRIENDS" LOL McCain might be slipping, after all he already has forgotten about How dirty Romney was during the Primary. Have you seen the attack ads Romney put out against McCain during the primary, Or the video of Romney calling McCain dishonest. If not and you want to see them you can go to http://www.hotpres.com

I am hoping and praying that Huckabee will be chosen as the VP, then at the last minute the GOP realizes that McCain is slightly senile and runs Huckabee instead of McCain., thats how it would go in my little perfect world. LOL. Did you see the video of McCain falling asleep on the Conan Obrien show?? The media isnt running it much. But it is Halarious. McCain is just a little too seasoned at this point to handle the office. Thats why he takes every weekend off. I hate to vote for a man that cant handle the job. If you want to see the video of him falling asleep on conan go to http://www.mccanes.com

I guess the GOP shouldnt of shoved McCain down our throats in the primary, they should of let it Play out without all the Minipulation. I might just stay home this november.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 12:44 p.m.

No disrespect to anyone, but the idea of recreating the cover using McCain is not exactly hard to come up with. It is kind of an obvious next step in the parody.

Posted by cascadeborn at 7/23/08 1:03 p.m.

When libs yell something for months it is not implausable that two of them use what they have been yelling. Besides the VF cover is more like the New Yorker's than the PIs cartoon.

Posted by Sasha7 at 7/23/08 1:14 p.m.

unregistered user #154436, the website you mentioned gave no indication where to find said video. But I saw the YouTube video, and in no way could McCain's actions be construed as "falling asleep." He very obviously was humourously "dying on camera" in resonse to Conan's questions about McCain's age. It was a JOKE.

Posted by themodpoet at 7/23/08 1:40 p.m.

Obama's "change" sounds a lot like the same crap we've got from the Bush administration for the last 8 years. Want real change? Stop voting for Democrats and Republicans.

Posted by Frognog at 7/23/08 1:41 p.m.

I like Horsey's version much better.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 1:57 p.m.

While the idea itself (in either case) isn't particularly orginal, I find Horsey's version much funnier (altho Vanity Fair did copy the original artist's drawing style extremely well).

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 1:59 p.m.

I doubt that VF copied Horsey, but even if they did, they provided a better cartoon. I like the fact that VF was able to go with a strictly visual medium, for one thing, rather than including a word balloon. And the parody with the pill bottles is better, because it's Cindy, not John, who is known to have the drug problem. And finally, the art is simply better: I could tell immediately that VF's drawing was of Cindy McCain. Horsey's picture looks like it's Hillary Clinton.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 2:02 p.m.

But for a truly devastating version, here's a fake New Yorker cover: http://jeremyglass.blogspot.com/2008/07/faux-yorker.html

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 2:02 p.m.

It wasn't necessarily an intentional copying of Horsey's idea, it's just that the P-I is a major newspaper and Horsey's has been out for about a week before Vanity Fair released its parody yesterday.

Now, I live on the East Coast too, but I think it's fair to say you can point to this as Manhattan snobbery by the "elites" at Vanity Fair. Certainly if they looked at media outside NYC they may have come across Horsey's drawing.

I mean, he's only a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 2:50 p.m.

I don't think Vanity Fair stole David Horsey's idea. I think two creative people had a similar idea at the same time.

Posted by kingmob at 7/23/08 3:16 p.m.

Happens all the time. One theory is the collective subconscious, where ideas originate.

This one isn't all that surprising, really. If one was to do a parody of the New Yorker cover, there aren't that many generic funny things about McCain to go with. Both artists seem to cover the obvious bases.

themodpoet has the best idea of the bunch. I'm with you, my friend. Too bad the majority of the country is apparently too slow-witted (that or they approve of the direction the country's been going since around 1910 and just won't admit it). Democrats and Republicans are the exact same monster. They may pay lip service to different agendas, but they both serve the same corporate masters. Can't really blame them, though. It's the citizens that have let our Founding Fathers down by tolerating this modern day aristocracy.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/23/08 5:31 p.m.

The general idea was so obvious, so unoriginal, so plebian that two people thought of it. It happens. An artist more aware would have realized that, and searched for another idea. You gotta know when you're doing shlock, these two didn't. Horsey is nothing but a breakfast stack of cliches anyway so I don't expect much of him in the first place. I do expect scholk from him and he didn't fail me there.

And what's with the bun on the top of his head? That boy's gotta start paying for hair cuts.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/24/08 6:58 a.m.

I often see similar cartoons addressing the big issue of the moment. Interesting that VF included the fist bump.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/31/08 3:48 p.m.

Cartoonists should make a standard of portraying McCain as an old man in a Sailor Suit; slightly shorter than others in the scene.