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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Right on target shall we say.
Too close to the truth.
Obama expects to be portrayed surrounded by a halo at all times.
Apparently, The New Yorker didn’t get the memo...
(I’m framing this!)
It's not meant to be funny. It's a calculated move.
The same way the Jesse rant helps B. Hussein, this will help.
The New Yorker is a lib rag, and I'd wager that Obama's handlers are in on the scam.
Crop out the “New Yorker” on the top, and this would make a hell of a rear window sticker.
“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
This ain’t satire - its the truth.
Try clicking your horizontal scrollbar. That did it for me.
I don’t get why Michelle has a gun, though.
Good idea
Probably to make her look like one of those Black Panther types. Reminds me of Winnie Mandela for some reason, though.
Sabotage?
Don’t count out the Rapist’s Wife in Denver. You can bet her operatives are making hay with Obama’s declining poll numbers.
All she needs is one scandal to move that the nominating vote be thrown open.
Hillary will never be politically dead until someone descends into the crypt and drives a stake through her flinty heart.
Yup ... sayin’ that for right scroller challenged.
This is going to bring out the protesters...like what we had with the mohammad cartoon flap.
Rage Boy may even make an appearance
Angela Davis to me ...
Use the horizontal scroll bar.
A reference to the ‘60s terrorists (Ayers and Dohrn) that the Obamas know from Chicago. And the ‘fro is reminiscent of Angela Davis, the Black Panthers, ...
I must be a little dense so maybe someone can explain why BHO has a problem with the cover...
“I don’t get why Michelle has a gun, though.”
They have portrayed her as a terrorist. ;)
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