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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Lol. There couldn’t be a truer depiction.
Yup!
Just what did these two do to piss off the New Yorker?
It’s a liberal rag.
WOW...this thread is propagating faster than a Humboldt County wildfire...
Just noticed the Osama bin Laden portrait over the fireplace. This cover is a classic! Cannot wait to hear the news shriekers trying to spin it.
The only people to read The NYer are white lib elites.
It is intended illustrate what those evil Republicans are saying about B.O. They are trying to generate sympathy for B.O. among the white liberals that so far are refusing to support him.
My fellow Americans, my fellow Muslims,
I witness that there is no god but Allah. I witness that Muhammad is his prophet.
Wow!
Not true. I subscribed to The New Yorker from 1966 to 1998. I dropped it because Tina Brown was destroying it.
It’s about time someone put Obama in his place. Dittos for Michelle. Screw ‘em if they can’t take a joke
I hope this punctures his ballon....I hear gas escaping....hssssssssss
BINGO!
Borders or Barnes and Noble should have it
WHY are they dissing the obomination like this?
SOmething smells ... .
I wanna buy the poster!!!
Count me in also..
needs a copy of birth certificate sitting in a spitoon
As for the black vote, I don't see a Hillary coup driving it away.
The Dems have ruined black families, patronized blacks with skin-beats-ability dogma, despoiled black neighborhoods with initiative-sapping handouts and wrecked black kids with unchallenging, feel-good curricula.
Yet blacks keep voting Dem in overwhelming numbers.
Short of poisoning Harlem's water supply, blacks will always turn out to pull the lever for whatever amoral machine hack the Dems choose to run.
WOW!!
Jeff, pinging you to this. You’ll love it. The New Yorker mag has a hilarious caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama on its new cover. It depicts him as a Muslim dressed like Osama bin Laden, and her as a terrorist.
The New Yorker says it’s satire.
DU freaks out:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6495244
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