Posted on 07/13/2008 3:32:05 PM PDT by Vision
The New Yorker says its satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to the diligent Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: The upcoming issue of the New Yorker, the July 21st issue, has a picture of you, depicting you and your wife on the cover. Have you seen it? If not, I can show it to you on my computer. It shows your wife Michelle with an Afro and an AK 47 and the two of you doing the fist bump with you in a sort of turban-type thing on top. I wondered if youve seen it or if you want to see it or if you have a response to it?
Obama (shrugs incredulously): I have no response to that.
Priceless stage direction by Maria.
The magazine explains at the start of its news release previewing the issue: On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of the 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.
Im sure Senator Obama is oh-so appreciative for The New Yorkers help.
Just trying to build sympathy for the Obama’s.
Especially since he can’t seem to find a valid birth certificate.
At least Clinton had Carter’s pardon for his draft-dodging.
It isn’t exclusive in the same way as Departures magazine, but still very upscale.
It might also be a preemptive strike. They do something like this and it insulates Obama from further criticism when it matters..
I agree ... mostly. Keep in mind, though, that there is much more going on behind the scenes than we know about. Republican and Democrat black ops people are constantly searching for -- and shopping -- stories. I don't believe the magazine cover of a well known pub, particularly one as Left as The New Yorker is chosen without very careful attention to what it does for circulation and for pushing the editorial agenda and image of the magazine.
It's quite possible they're trying to inoculate against new revelations, or it's possible that their internal polls are telling them the lingering doubts with some groups they think they can "turn" about Obama's associations haven't been laid to rest.
I've said I think this might backfire.
The idea that The New Yorker somehow "get's it," espoused by some people on this and other like minded threads is palpably laughable. Smug and secure in their little island (literally and figuratively) the editors and cartoonists of The New Yorker are too insular to ever "get it." They're as clueless about what's really happening in the world as children; They're so clueless they think we don't know when we're being laughed at. We do know. We're used to it. We just don't care. Nobody whose opinion matters to us works for The New Yorker.
Now there's aNaziMoron.
Please punctuate properly: left-wing "intellectuals".
I know a couple of them. Don’t want to mention names.
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