Since last February, we’ve had lots of fun with Newsweek’s infamous “We Are All Socialists Now” cover. On Twitter last night, “VBSpurs” joked, “Still waiting for Newsweek’s new headline: ‘We are all Tea Partiers Now.’”
Since the once general-interest magazine decided to alienate half of its potential audience in recent years, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that cover to appear officially. But we can always fire up Photoshop and imagine it. As a famous arch-capitalist (and nascent John Kerry supporter) once sang, it’s easy if you try:
And a hat tip to Mark Steyn for the headline above the masthead.
Love the Photoshop, Ed! And thanks muchly for the “hat tip”!
Can you imagine if Newsweek really surprised us all and actually printed that next week, in a brilliant use of sardonic self-referencing?
Won’t be holding my breath.
Newsweek’s TV broadcast partner, MSNBC, is already dealing out race cards against the Massachusetts voters like a Vegas blackjack dealer, so the odds are far more likely that instead of that cover showing up, we’ll get a tome this weekend noting that that the last time a Republican held a Senate seat in the Bay State, Boston was in the grips of the school busing desegregation battles of the 1970s, and how Brown’s election shows the return of that same racist mindset (and yes, of course they’d never mention the Republican senator back in the ’70s was black).
I have heard that God looks out for small children, drunks, and the United States of America…now I believe it.
If someone had told me last fall that a Republican would win Kennedy’s seat I would have bet my life such a thing was not possible. Today, I would be dead.
Long live Scott Brown.