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Ya can't make it up (New Yorker Obama Cover)
Politico ^
| July 13, 2008
| Mike Allen
Posted on 07/13/2008 3:32:05 PM PDT by Vision
The New Yorker says it’s 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 you’ve 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 Obama’s campaign.”
I’m sure Senator Obama is oh-so appreciative for The New Yorker’s help.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: blueturban; husseinobama; newyorker; obama; propagandawingofdnc
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To: Vision
Devastating cover..., I love it!
61
posted on
07/13/2008 4:22:45 PM PDT
by
Shqipo
To: rwa265
I have to admit my sympathies go to the Obamas on this one.Oh, please, these racists deserve every bit of this.
To: Verginius Rufus
That is one heck of a hard-hitting cartoon! Good stuff. Down with the Marxists!! I don’t know the cartoonist’s real intent here but it’s sure NAIL = HEAD.
63
posted on
07/13/2008 4:24:55 PM PDT
by
brushcop
(We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
To: Bassfire
64
posted on
07/13/2008 4:25:17 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(DNC = Do Nothing Congress)
To: rwa265
I have to admit my sympathies go to the Obamas on this one.That's exactly what this lib rag wants you to feel!
It's all a big scam by the people who pull Obama's strings!
65
posted on
07/13/2008 4:25:54 PM PDT
by
airborne
(God gives us countless opportunities! It's up to us to use them wisely!)
To: Cicero
You can see all of Barry Blitt's illustrations for the
New Yorker here.
No one can accuse him of being pro-Republican after looking at a few of them.
66
posted on
07/13/2008 4:27:24 PM PDT
by
library user
(There's no sandwich like prawn sandwich.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
Is it a coinkydink that the newstand price of the New Yorker is the same price as a gallon of premium gas?
67
posted on
07/13/2008 4:28:28 PM PDT
by
y6162
To: Crawdad
Are those human limbs in the fireplace? They look to me like big strips of BACON.
68
posted on
07/13/2008 4:40:34 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: rwa265
haha, that’s a good one!!
lol
69
posted on
07/13/2008 4:45:13 PM PDT
by
JerseyDvl
(BHO-The Manchurian Muslim Candidate)
To: rfp1234
70
posted on
07/13/2008 4:48:57 PM PDT
by
JerseyDvl
(BHO-The Manchurian Muslim Candidate)
To: Army Air Corps
It’ll be the best selling issue of that rag in a decade. I bought it last week to read on an airplane and I could not believe how bad it was.
71
posted on
07/13/2008 4:49:22 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: rwa265
WHAT?? YOU HAVE SYMPATHY FOR OBAMA???
To: Marie2
so do I....and I love it!!!
73
posted on
07/13/2008 4:58:04 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: Vision
Did the New Yorker include the pictures of Obama’s Texas Staff with their delightful posters of Che in their office?
74
posted on
07/13/2008 5:03:35 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Voting "Present" 130 times might be a sign of a smart politician. It is not a sign of a good leader.)
To: pbear8
I think it’s the flag.No, underneath the flag.
To: Bubba_Leroy
76
posted on
07/13/2008 5:05:27 PM PDT
by
Bassfire
(freepin with a smile)
To: Cicero
If yiou are unable to laugh at some of the current cartoons, your sense of humor is suspect.
To: Misterioso
Look closely, that’s Obama’s birth certificate.
78
posted on
07/13/2008 5:07:36 PM PDT
by
pbear8
(Typical Bitter White Person but better dipped in cinnamon and sugar)
To: Bubba_Leroy
It pisses me off to see the American flag burning in the Oval Office fireplace.
79
posted on
07/13/2008 5:08:20 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(OBAMA IS AN ARAB! _NEENER_NEENER!)
To: firebrand
The cartoonists were called to a meeting back in the eighties and told to make their cartoons more political.Cite?
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