A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal
Leonard Pitts takes position on the side with the New Yorkers; he sympathizes with magazine because the cruelty satire inflicted upon him when defending “media accuracy”. Pitts liked the illustration published by the New Yorker depicting Barack Obama and, his wife, Michelle, he felt as though it justified and represented the fear of Obamas presidency. The cover was representative of fears in relation to Obamas run for presidency; Obama wearing a turban while bumping fists with Michelle and Osama bin Laden on a portrait hanging on the wall. Satire, the use of wit symbolized by irony, sarcasm, and ridicule, is only effective when it causes hysteria. Pitts stands to say that the sophisticated among us are impacted more heavily by this image because it is the sum of their fears. They are haunted by this image, the possible presidency of Obama.
In ways Pitts argument is similar to Swifts “A Modest Proposal”; in this proposal Swift is discussing