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.
The typical reader of The New Yorker may see this as a pro-Obama cover, meant to reassure them that he's still an OK guy, despite the FISA vote and waffling on some other issues.
Looks like the American flag to me
Me too. Used to love reading the Fiction story each week but at some point the lib bias just got too much.
Is that the Oval Office?
Way too close to the truth to be effective satire.
Just remember: Hillary hasn’t released her delegates, and the Dems’ convention isn’t until next month...
Why are they both so light-skinned in the cartoon? The artist slipped up, I think.
And once again - the filthy racism is from the left! But it’s ok, cause it’s “satire”.
I don’t feel a bit sorry for them. Looks like a good likeness to me. Heh heh.
Yes, and it shows the first couple - President and First Lady Hussein doing the “fist” ritual as they celebrate the conversion of the White House into a madrassa.
Whoa...
This is going to send some people over the edge. Satire, you say!
Same here,a seed has been planted.
From the KOS kids:
“OMFG! I’m sure it’s some kind of joke right? There’s no other ulterior motive to publish cartoons like this right? They got the new McCain Manchurian Candidate cover lined up for next week right?
This is disgusting. Might be worth cancelling a subscription or two.”
The cartoonists were called to a meeting back in the eighties and told to make their cartoons more political.
I like Obama’s sandals.
hey, that could just as easily be a mini 14
This is our warning, heed it or be prepared to live it.
This is the perfect issue to have framed for your den.
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