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The cover competition is getting good. (Vanity Fair Image)

After last week's New Yorker cover sent shock waves through America, Vanity Fair has now one-upped the competition with a cover that spoof's their cover.

Last week, The New Yorker ran a satirical cover with a cartoon of Barack Obama dressed in Muslim attire, fist bumping his wife Michelle, who is dressed as a 60s radical, while the American flag burns in the fireplace and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs on the wall.

To get in on the fun, as well as cash in on some of their own publicity, Vanity Fair has run a cover satirizing the New Yorker's cover, but uses John McCain as the political target. The cartoon shows McCain bent over a walker; fist bumping his wife Cindy (who holds an armload of prescription drugs), while the Constitution burns in the fireplace and President Bush's portrait hangs on the wall.

Vanity Fair says of their cover, "We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear, but we shelved it when The New Yorker’s became the “It Girl” of the blogosphere. Now, however, in a selfless act of solidarity with our downstairs neighbors here at the Condé Nast building, we’d like to share it with you. Confidentially, of course."

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