Double Standard: What About the Rolling Stone Caricature Of John McCain?

July 14, 2008 · Filed Under John McCain, Liberal Bias, Smears

With all the fuss over The New Yorker’s distasteful caricature of the Obamas, it reminded me of a far more offensive caricature of John McCain that Rolling Stone featured last month.

Alongside a hit piece called Full Metal McCain, Rolling Stone magazine offered up the horrifying caricature you see above, which seemed to poke fun at John McCain’s 5 1/2 years of torture as a Vietnam POW.

I didn’t notice any outcry from the press or any strong condemnations from the mainstream media. Obviously, that’s because it wasn’t Jesus Barack Obama that was being caricatured.

Tags: caricatures, gross picture, John McCain, liberal double standard, rolling stone, rolling stone magazine

Comments

18 Responses to “Double Standard: What About the Rolling Stone Caricature Of John McCain?”

libmans88 on July 14th, 2008 10:32 am

You’re an idiot! The John McCain picture was funny and the Obama picture is not. Get a life.
eric s. on July 14th, 2008 10:33 am

Of course there’s a double standard. The media is liberal.
bigjake on July 14th, 2008 10:34 am

That picture of McCain is horrible
nysusan11 on July 14th, 2008 10:35 am

john mccain is a warmonger
JasonBorne on July 14th, 2008 10:40 am

Libmans88, you need to get a life. What is wrong with loving your counrty and willing to do what ever it takes to protect her? It was a democrat pres that started that war, and a repulican that ended it, or did you not pay close enough attention in class to know that? What has BO done in the name of protecting this country? And before you accuse me of being a ChickenHawk, yes, I DID serve my nation by proudly raising my hand for the USN and served with great pride and would do it again if they would have me. Where did you serve?
Chris Jones on July 14th, 2008 10:54 am

well said Jason, and thank you for your service.
lisa on July 14th, 2008 11:57 am

Where was this caricature? I’m sure people would have been up in arms if Rolling Stone magazine had put it on its cover!
Chris Jones on July 14th, 2008 12:22 pm

The picture was alongside a piece by the loathsome Matt Taibii in last month’s Rolling Stone. The media largely ignored it because they’re in favor of anything that damages McCain. There job is to cover the news that helps Obama and hurts McCain.
bullyleemc on July 14th, 2008 12:33 pm

dear OBO people got a life
sfcmac on July 14th, 2008 1:42 pm

libmans88:

Well of course you’d think the McCain cartoon was funny, and anything poking fun at the Obamessiah sends libtards like you into convulsions.

STFU.
sfcmac on July 14th, 2008 1:42 pm

nysusan11= asshat.
Darwin Akbar on July 14th, 2008 3:04 pm

libmans88, I’m sure it was a real laugh riot when McCain was being beaten for five years and having his teeth knocked out…I’m sure everyone had a lot of jolly laughs, and that it was almost as funny as a Keith Olbermann special. Of course, Obama and his wife have suffered, too….sometimes he doesn’t get to finish his waffle, college loans actually have to be repaid, and yes, dance lessons really do cost a lot.
Mr. Luxury Yacht on July 15th, 2008 9:06 am

As a progressive I find the Rolling Stone cartoon INCREDIBLY offensive, and the absence of similar outrage to be, unfortunately, fuel on the fire for those who want to assert a double-standard or liberal bias in the media.

I may believe that a President McCain (hard to even type that) would be the Third Coming of George W. Bush but what he did forty years ago(!) was unbelievably brave and patriotic. Which is what makes his walking away from a decades long history of strongly opposing the US use of torture all the more telling.

The John McCain of the 2000 campaign – the one many centrist D’s talk about wistfully – is GONE and it is just such flip-flops on major issues as torture that make McCain untrustworthy.

Can’t trust him.

That said – mocking his bravery in a scenario that none of the people reading this can even imagine is across the line. The McCain cartoon from Rolling Stone is INCREDIBLY offensive.
Katy750 on July 15th, 2008 2:41 pm

If there was no outcry from the press, it was because there was nothing going on in the Bush administration that needed to be distracted away from. Americans knew about the NYorker cover before it went on the newstands, so that was a concerted effort by the media to bring attention to it. Every time there is a sensational piece of news out there, Bush is pulling something he doesnt want to bring attention to. Yesterday it may have been that he was lifting the ban on oil drilling after saying he was waiting on Congress. And God only knows what else he was up to yesterday. The media generally covers and does the bidding of the corporate owners.
Chris Jones on July 15th, 2008 2:51 pm

Suffice it to say that I disagree with your characterization of Bush being “up to something.” To suggest that Bush wanted to keep it a secret that he lifted the ban on drilling is absurd. He held a press conference on the White House lawn right after he did it. Secondly, it was more symbolic than anything else, because Congress hasn’t lifted its ban yet. I appreciate you reading and commenting, but at least come with a semi-lucid argument.
Messiah Obama on July 23rd, 2008 12:58 pm

The double standard practiced by the left is disgusting. Their phony outrage over the New Yorker cartoon is ludicrous. They have chosen to deliberately ignore the Rolling Stone cartoon.
Chris Jones on July 23rd, 2008 3:08 pm

I agree with you there Messiah
bobbarker on October 13th, 2008 2:09 am

I personally found them both to be funny. I agree that they are both offensive, but offensiveness is one of the most oft-used brands of humor, really.

And, I assume unlike most of the commenters, I did read the article, and though it definitely has a liberal slant, through thorough fact-checking, much of it (such as McCain’s easily-findable “changes-of-opinion” on major issues such as interrogation/torture, war, taxes, campaign finance/soft money, etc.) is irrefutable. The tone of the article is definitely anti-McCain, but facts have no party affiliation. This is not to say Obama has done no wrong, but I feel safe in my decision (for many reasons) to vote for him.