Or it would, if James Taranto at WSJ hadn’t gotten to it first. How are those Heisman votes coming along, y’all?
The Magazine Publishers of America’s American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.
When we first read this on NewsBusters.org, we thought it was a joke:
But it’s true, as we discovered on the ASME Web site. The Magazine Cover of the Year is also the winner in the Best Obama Magazine Cover category, a Rolling Stone cover featuring a beatifically smiling Barack. The runners-up: Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, the New York Times magazine and two covers from The New Yorker, neither featuring a terrorist fist-bump.
The more we thought about it, though, the more this made sense to us. Given how amazingly super President Obama is, there is a temptation to give him every award for everything. Example: It’s hard to imagine that anyone will end up deserving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama will, but if the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives Obama the prize every year, no one else will have any incentive to work for peace. Solution: create two separate prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Non-Obama Peace Prize. Problem solved!
The separation of Obama awards from others would allow him to get his due, while making it possible for people besides Obama to get some recognition once in a while. Other people, after all, sometimes are worthy too–just not worthy of Obama.
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That’s a good point. After all, Obama will still be “Not-Bush” in 2010
All. Praise. Obama.
I think I’m going to dub one of the Snuggy commercials where they look like cult members with the Obama song those elementary kids were singing. Who wants to help?
Wonder if sample issues they judge get shipped to them with the pages stuck together?
This is going to be just like rainbow colored suspenders, polyester leisure suits and those huge shoulder pads in women’s jackets. It seems progressive and cutting edge to these folks now, but in a decade when they look back on these years it’ll be like looking at an episode of “Designing Women.”
Rufus, if this isn’t the mullet of our times, I don’t know what is.
Amen Rufus. Leftism is all about trendy and pop culture that’s why the only way to do away with this mental illness is to make it go out of style.
Sounds like the Left is rediscovering “separate but equal”.
rainbow colored suspenders, polyester leisure suits and those huge shoulder pads in women’s jackets.
pet rocks! Baby On Board! Coors Beer! (when it wasn’t available in the East) Acid washed jeans! Beanie Babies and Cabbage Patch Kids! Teddy Ruxpin!
Tickle Me Elmo!
Monchichis!
So soft and cuddly.
I was going to say the Kick n Go Scooter, but apparently those are still cool.
How about feathered bangs and a comb sticking out of your back pocket? That goes with Matt’s mullet.
Rubik’s Cube?
I’m expecting that he’ll win Miss America.
And the Yukinooma (sp) Kennel Club.
Sea monkeys