Posted on 07/14/2008 4:40:39 AM PDT by Raquel
The cover of the July 21, 2008 New Yorker will feature the Obamas in a negative light. Both the Obama and McCain campaign call it tasteless and offensive. The New Yorker is a publication laced with satire, cartoons, and other commentary regarding the lifestyles of urban New Yorkers. Of course they are generally left leaning, but thats nothing new. In a press release issued with the preview of the magazine, the following statement was asserted:
On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of The New Yorker, in The Politics of Fear, artist Barry Blitt satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obamas campaign.
The depiction, in other words, is to show Americans that it is the right-wing conservatives that are creating a certain image of the Obamas in order to scare voters. The right-wing conservatives are to blame! How ingenious of them!
(Excerpt) Read more at raquelokyay.com ...
I wonder if the New Yorker mentioned it was the Clinton campaign that found and released the photo of Obama in full Muslim garb, not “right-wingers”.
The kernels of truth in this cartoon stoke rage in the cultists.
I wonder how many copies I can buy?
I didn't know it was you until I went back to the byline.
It must be fun to see the fireworks, no?
Uh oh. Heads will roll....
(/sarc)
Both the Obama and McCain campaign call it tasteless and offensive.
So both candidates are opposed to the First Amendment. We already knew that.
Hey Jay, yes, yes, this is fun! I’m going to start buying the New Yorker again, it is quite funny, and their depiction of the Obamas is hilarious!
The gun and ammunition that Michelle Obama has (I believe she'd probably like to ban all firearms in this country) and the Osama picture are in exaggeration.
The rest, however, is pretty much exactly how I picture the Obamas.
More whining from the left.
It's the Obamas all-right.
Just replace the Osama portrait with one of Che Guevara and it'd be a real winner.
they forgot the Farrakhan/Wright, Chicago corruption connections etc - the Left is doing a better job carving up the Dem candidate than the McCain campaign. keep it coming!
Libbies are so predictable, it’s one element of their character that makes them child-like and easy to lead... not to mention easy to lead on. ;)
I don’t recall such a furor over NY covers against the other side of the aisle... http://amrep.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/bush_nero_web.jpg
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/brodner/2007/10/Hil-W-Bulston-500x487.jpg
Shut up Hussein, your words do not hide the table cloth on your head.
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