Just in time for Lent and the run-up to Easter Sunday, this “illustration by Nola Lopez, photograph by Damon Winter” of Obama the Savior ran yesterday in the New York Times‘s “Week in Review” section yesterday, edited by Sam “The Death of Conservatism” Tanenhaus. Be sure to click on this link and check out the picture.
Luckily, there’s no need for anyone to question which side of the left-right divide Tanenhaus is on:
Here’s his praise for (gasp!) Nixon — as a liberal — and for Obama being “at the center of American identity,” and for his “tremendous patriotism.”
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With friends like this, conservatives really don’t need enemies, even at the New York Times, do they?
Bonus question: doesn’t the blending of the Christian cross and the image of the White House in the illustration violate the separation of church and state, against which the Times is otherwise adamantly against?
The floor is now open for learned interpretation/exegesis.