Posted on 07/13/2008 4:06:45 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
Scare Tactic — Obama Slams Muslim Portrayal By: Mike Allen
The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.
An American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
The issue, which goes on sale Monday, includes a long piece by Ryan Lizza about Obama’s start in Chicago politics.
At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to a transcript by 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, shrugging incredulously: “I have no response to that.”
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No it doesn’t!!!
I am Hillary Clinton, and I approved this Ad.
so hillary can run in 2012?
I had to check them out. This is hilarious!
Confirmation will be provided by the National Inquirer.
why not?
she’d be younger in 2012 than mccain in 2008.
The blind dedication of blacks to the Democrat plantation is actually a fairly recent phenomena in historical terms. From the Civil War until the mid 20th century, nearly all blacks were Republicans. It was only after WWII that blacks stopped seeing the Republican party as the party of Lincoln and the Democrat party as the party of the KKK.
It would take a lot to reverse that, but taking away the nomination from Obama at this point would probably be enough.
Quite amazing actually that they would do this; even as satire.
A classic.
let them eat eachother. it's fun to watch. not that i'm psyched about mccain, but you take what you can get.
some pictures just say it all...
For a poster, I suggest gritting your teeth, buy a copy of the rag......and take it to Kinko's.
I was at an 80th birthday last night. At a special table they had large photos leaning against the wall of the birthday girl as a younger woman in some glamorous shots (taken during the 1960's). A family member had taken the vintage photos to Kinkos and they were blown up poster size, color and all, and then mounted on something or other.
It was a great idea. The pleasure derived from a poster like this hanging over the computer outweighs the couple bucks it costs to buy the ragazine.
Leni
The phrase “too clever by half” comes to mind.
Good job out-sophisticating yourself, New Yorker!
Check your local supermarket or drugstore. My local super carries the New Yorker, up here in New Hampshire.
Use the slider at the bottom of the window..
Looks appropriate to me, don’t see why he’d be upset either.
“If Obama were somehow indicted, tried and convicted of raping and mass murdering small children between now and the convention he would still get the Democrat nomination.”
he’d have to be caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy. -————Edwin Edwards
Already printed and framed on my wall. Thanks ‘New Yorker’!
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