Why Are Tina Fey and McCain On This LIFE Cover?

Are the McCain-Palin people even aware that Tina Fey is making fun of them, all the time? Oh, wait ... this is a magazine cover from2004. Which still doesn't make any sense. Why, in 2004, did the editors of this (obviously now defunct) magazine decide that the best illustration of the Kerry-Bush race was ... a picture of a teevee comic who doesn't portray either of them, and a guy who was soundly beaten for the GOP nomination four years earlier, in 2000? There is no answer, no "figuring it out." Just enjoy the random strangeness of Tina Fey mocking McCain on amagazinenewspaper-supplement cover four years ago. [ Poynter Forums ]