Another Ageist Stereotype From the Mainstream Media
Terry Trippany on Jul 23 2008 at 7:12 pm | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Liberalism Watch, Media Watch
No Outrage As The Elderly Are Treated as Second Class Citizens By The Mainstream Media
Hot on the heels of a Seattle Post-Intelligencer response to the New Yorker cartoon depicting John McCain using an ageist stereotype is Vanity Fair. Like the Seattle P-I cartoon the Vanity Fair version features John McCain in typical liberal mockery of the elderly by depicting him in a walker alongside his pill popping wife. (Full size image here.)
The difference between the Vanity Fair and Seattle P-I depictions of John and Cindy McCain and that of the New Yorker featuring the media’s preferred family is that neither of the former cartoon depictions are satirical. They may claim to be but I doubt it as they weren’t conjured up in response to some unfair liberal misrepresentation of the McCains. Instead they were created to even the playing field for over sensitive liberals that were up in arms over the New Yorker cover.
As for the Vanity Fair readers we can glean what we must about their character by reading the typical comments that accompany the Vanity Fair article.
- Wonderful piece of art, nails the NY cover perfectly, but isn’t McKrusty’s big bump on the wrong side of his face?
- McCain looks just like himself.
- Unfortunately, you didn’t take it far enough. As someone else points out the satire here is not far from the actual (Cindy had a drug problem & John is old). Now if you had portrayed them a jack-booted Nazis perhaps you could have approached the offensiveness of the New Yorker.
These people never cease to live down to their standards.
Given all the mainstream media outrage over the New Yorker cover wouldn’t anyone think that there would be similar outrages over the repetitive attacks against John McCain using the stereotypical ageist depictions that have become commonplace for the left? AARP? Anyone?
Nope, the AARP is too busy feeding into liberal narratives about John McCain’s lack of internet usage and the mainstream media apparently could care less, choosing instead to reserve their outrage in defense of Barack Obama.
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Tags: AARP, age discriminiation, Barack Obama, elderly, John McCain, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair
