Posted on 07/13/2008 4:50:34 PM PDT by XR7
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.
UPDATE -- Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton says: 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."
UPDATE to the UPDATE -- McCain spokesman Tucker "Outward" Bounds quickly e-mailed: "We completely agree with the Obama campaign, its tasteless and offensive.
Why doesn't the McCain Campaign know better than to stick their oar into that mess?
Oh, and don't miss the portrait of OBL to the right"
This made me giddy.
I love the First Amendment.
Still, what it says is: No matter what those wacky right wingers say about him, they can’t keep Obama from winning the election.
And Obama has the audacity to complain about it.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
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and it is good that they did do it, no matter what they claim their intent was. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this will clearly articulate what many have had a sense of but been unable to either identify or find anything agreeing with them.
No way this helps obama, too much truth in it.
Just the right size for a cell phone wallpaper, too.
Did Jesse Jackson draw it?
Is there another article about Radical Chic by Tom Wolfe on the inside?
Just as we should be aware - I mean, come on - that Obama's religion isn't Islam.
It's Big Government.
Wait a second. Where’s the satirical part. I don’t get it.
Michelle reminds me of Angela Davis.
Great minds think alike, just what I was thinking, LOL.
you’re right, with a picture of OBL on the wall and a flag burning in the fireplace.
“UPDATE — Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton says: 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.”
Yes, we all know that the New Yorker is such a “right-wing” publication.
Since even The New Yorker is catching some heat for their front cover, it is evident that satire is riskier, even for liberals, than it was in the 1970s, when The National Lampoon made fun of both liberal and conservative shibboleths.
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