the purpose of the republican beefcake calendar is to mock republicans. sort of a counter punch to vogue's november spread on that *hot* ny congresschick kiki gillibrand.

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Room for snark?!

To show that his orange "tan" doesn't go below his collar!

To illustrate that there really is no BP-oil floating in the gulf!

To float the idea that his last name should be spelled "boner"!

To convey their wish for Boehner's primary vocation after 2012.

To finally present empirical evidence that Boehner really isn't human since he doesn't have a navel.

Bizarre. Utterly bizarre.

The American political scene, and the media's treatment of it, has become two of the symptom's with which we can actually gauge just how fatally diseased our country has become.

Perhaps it IS time to get rid of the crowd of proffessional politicians that have infected Washington DC with the malady known as "partisan politics" as it is now practiced. Let the dim-witted and buffoonish clowns like Palin, Angle, and O'Dingle have a go at it. I mean, how much worse, or weirder, can it get?

Is this cover photo REALLY any more satirical than than what one can find on any given hour just be tuning into CNN, Fox, or MSNBC and viewing what they air 24/7, foisted off as "news" to the slobbering gullible masses? Or what we can hear on the AM radio just by tuning the dial to the likes of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, or Dr. Micheal Savage (Whose REAL last name is Weiner???? Have you ever wanted to call in just to see how he'd react to you calling him "Doctor Weener"?)???

So I say to Vanity Fair, "bring it on". Covers like this one beat the shit out of seeing a photo of this slimey son of a bitch standing before Congress screwing the American people out of any respect or trust they once had in their government.

Personally, I'd like to see Vanity Fair run a picture of Obama suckin' Republican dick. (Why not Boehner's??? I mean, isn't there a simple justice in symbolism implied by the name?)Besides, its about time SOMEONE in the media got honest.

It a comment on the kind of celebrity that Boehner is about to achieve when the GOP takes over the House. Boehner will become "flavor of the month" (as it were) in the media, the "sexy" story that will be featured on the cover of People, Time, and on all the cable shows.

A far better thing to think about, and a far better way to treat political actors, and a far more interesting if sleepy-making nightstand occupant; also less likely to induce nightmares and indigestion....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/books/28klopp.html?_r=1&hp

It'd be nice if V.F. tried this route instead of the fameseeker, visual, silly, photoshopped, hint at widespread closeting, shallow read of the other-party leaders.

Treat them as thinkers, read what they've read and written, see if you can find a worldview out there somewhere.....

POA, you have written about Emily Henochowiz…

Off topic. Then maybe not so much so…the above is definitely a visual disturbance.

POA, you have written about Emily Henochowiz, the American art student who lost her eye in May after being shot in the face by an Israeli tear gas canister.

I thought of Emily yesterday when I listened to a fascinating interview with neurologist Oliver Sacks, who has written a new book, The Mind's Eye, which is about visual disturbances. Sacks lost sight in his right eye after having a cancerous tumor removed.

Dr. Sacks talked about how different the world looks to him with the loss of stereoscopic vision, “the absence of real depth, the absence of stereo…if one only has one operative eye… It's both fascinating and upsetting.”

“I've become rather fond of Medieval art, where…there's no perspective and no sense of depth…I feel I'm in a sort of 13th-century painting myself… Some colleagues of mine at Harvard wrote an interesting paper...They noted that Rembrandt's eyes were so far apart and slightly divergent, that it seemed to them very unlikely that he could have used both eyes and could have had stereo vision. And they observed this with a number of other artists and then started to wonder whether having one eye - or, in effect, only using one eye, might be an advantage for an artist.

“I thought that was improbable, but I have to say that one of the minor compensations now of losing stereo is that I have a stronger sense of visual composition. The world looks to me very much like a canvas or a screen, with the appearances in perspective of objects on it… I was very amazed that simply losing an eye, rather than a part of the brain, could produce something like this… since there's a big slice of my vision missing, I can't just glance to the right. I have to turn my head and my upper body to the right. I have to crane and peer, and that can sometimes disturb people who are behind me because they feel I am staring at them.”

In the last line of his book, Sacks writes, “Language, that most human invention, can enable what in principle should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.”

- Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye'/ Fresh Air from WHYY/ October 26, 2010

Sacks’ beautiful thought about language, writing and literature contrasts with dimwittedness of Vanity Fair's Republican Beefcake Calendar.

"It'd be nice if V.F. tried this route instead of the fameseeker, visual, silly, photoshopped, hint at widespread closeting, shallow read of the other-party leaders"

"Sacks’ beautiful thought about language, writing and literature contrasts with dimwittedness of Vanity Fair's Republican Beefcake Calendar"

But Vanity Fair's cover is so much more indicative of what the modern American audience/listener/reader wants to recieve in the comfort of their living room sanctuaries.

The cover is perfect, far more honest in its portrayal of our mores, and societal depth, than your examples are, both of which require a thought process that transcends the superfical pursuit of vicarious delight at someone else's humiliation.

Ya gotta love the bulge, and its symbolism. That sums these posturing self-obsessed megalamanics up perfectly. No doubt, its how Boehner would describe himself figuratively. Ideologically hung, courageous, a model of American manhood and patriotism. Did VF miss the boat by not having him wearing a pair of red white and blue speedos?

In truth, they shoulda stuck a baboon's body on him, diapered, with a bulge the size of a vole's.

Steve, the Vanity Fair spread is the visual equivalent of calling voters dumb because they have failed to appreciate the awesomeness of one party Democratic rule. There's been a lot of that going around.

It's unfathomable, because I cannot recall any political satire or
humor ever making a target of a man's junk. I guess Larry Flynt
used to do this, but this is the Hustlerization of VF.

Boehner

Jonathan Bernstein routinely hits it out of the park.

Here's one on Harry Reid....

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/question-day-answers-2-senate-leaders.html

And here is a link to a page of pdf links on Congress from Bernstein's piece. Haven't read the articles, but it looks good from a glance. Read about Congress and it'll rock your world. Or something!

http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol6/iss3/

Jonathan Bernstein routinely hits it out of the park.

Here's one on Harry Reid....

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/question-day-answers-2-senate-leaders.html

And here is a link to a page of pdf links on Congress from Bernstein's piece. Haven't read the articles, but it looks good from a glance. Read about Congress and it'll rock your world. Or something!

http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol6/iss3/

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