Vanity Fair Skewers Magazines For Running Too Much Barack

On a Vanity Fair blog, editor David Friend and illustrator Andrew Hearst imagine some magazines that have gone all-Obama, all-the-time. "Magazines are awash in Barack-emblazoned covers," the post says. "It’s only a matter of time before many of them transform into unabashedly pro-Bama titles."

Friend and Hearst publish four fake magazine covers with titles "OQ," "Harper's Barack," "Barack Obama Living" and "O: The Obama Magazine" (at right).

It's not exactly a keen observation to say Barack Obama has been on a lot of magazine covers. That's bound to happen on your way to becoming America's first black president.

So what's their point? Could Vanity Fair be trying to excuse itself for failing to publish an Obama cover of its own? (And no, I am not counting Obama's appearance on some copies of Vanity Fair's July 2007 Africa issue, when he was one of 20 different cover subjects.)

Take a look and see if you have any reaction.

Comments

[Guy]

C'mon now, you know Vanity Fair is doing some major ass-kissing to Obama and his crew. Probably a big VF Obama special issue and Liebovitz cover in the works. And VF will compare Obama to JFK and all the Camelot crap. And of course VF will come down hard on McCain-Palin and Bush. Maybe VF will put Obama and Oprah together on the cover and then they can invite the two of then to the very expensive and wasteful VF Oscar party.