Mad #498 (John Ficarra) - President Obama Inauguration Issue - February 2009

To all of my "friends" at FOX News, I just want to say: GET OVER IT!  As the Hall-of-Fame dumbster leaves office, Mad Magazine recognizes the Obama administration with a Mark Fredrickson cover showing the load of crap dumped on Obama's plate.  To his credit, Mr. Obama has cleaned up most of that mess with very little help from the U.S. Congress.  Artist Tom Richmond (with help from Desmond Devlin, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Frank Santopadre & Dennis Snee)adds the tour-de-force triple-splash-page "Mad Exposes Who's Thinking What at the Obama Inauguration" that adequately sums the 2008/2009 scenario created by our media circus.  In addition, Barry Liebmann & Ward Sutton offer "Lame Attempts by TV to Explain the 2008 Presidential Vote"; while Bill Fibbers,  Santopadre again & Drew Friedman conclude the issue with "The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency".  Happy days are here again.  [JAM 12/20/2014]

Departments:
Random Acts of Mindless - The Fundalini Pages  [Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds]
Smart Bored - Lame Attempts by TV to Explain the 2008 Presidential Vote
Serge-In General - A Mad Look at Snow
First Aid for the Joking Victim - Mad's 12 Sure-Fire Tips for Stand-Up Comics
Humor in a Jugular Vein - Mad's Sucky Twilight Outtakes
Annu-Al Jaffee - The Al Jaffee 2009 Calendar
Thought in the Act - Mad Exposes Who's Thinking What at the Obama Inauguration
Joke And Dagger - Spy vs. Spy
Generation Crap - When Adults Say ... Remind Them ...
It's Reigning Cats And Dogs - The Mad World of Pets
Little Blouse on the Prairie - Mad Examines Cross-Dressing in the Old West  [fake department]
Angster's Paradise - Monroe and ... The Plane Trip
Observation Dreck - What the Heck is the Difference?
Put it on My Tab-loid - Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Celebrity Scandal Blog Posting
Seer-Suckers - Tell-Tale Signs That You've Got a Really Bad Psychic
Barack Around the Clock - The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency

Fold-In - Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien