Stephen Colbert said last night that The Economist didn’t go far enough when photoshopping its “Barack Obama in the Gulf” cover. The magazine had taken a picture of the President examining the damage done by the BP oil spill, and edited out the president of a Louisiana parish to make Obama seem more broken and alone.
“I don’t know what the big surprise is,” Colbert said. “Louisianans should be used to being invisible by now.”
But, he added, The Economist could have used the cover to “really drive home the point that Obama is a coast-destroying failure,” by adding “Obama kicking a sea turtle.”
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