WHY IS EVERYBODY THROWING THE NEW YORKER UNDER THE BUS! CAIR IS SAYING THEY ARE ANTI-ISLAM AND THE ACLU IS CALLING FOR ALL COPIES OF THE NEW YORKER TO BE DESTROYED?
Posted on 07/13/2008 5:46:55 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
The sophisticates at The New Yorker have come up with a cover that is sure to get the magazine a lot of attention. Negative attention. From their friends.
An illustration by Barry Blitt depicts Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his wife Michelle in the Oval Office, revealing their "true" selves: Michelle is in full revolutionary garb, an enormous afro making her look like a millennial Angela Davis, holding an automatic weapon and wearing military pants.
In the cartoon Michelle is giving dap, or fist-bumping, with her husband who is wearing a turban and is dressed in garb perhaps more appropriate for a madrassa in Lahore than the Oval Office.
A painting of Osama bin Laden hangs above the fireplace, where the American flag is being burned.
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports that when he was asked about the controversial cover during a press avail today, Obama shrugged and then said, "I have no response to that."
His campaign had a response later in the day on Sunday.
Said Obama spox Bill Burton: "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."
Knowing the liberal politics of the magazine, I believe the magazine's staff when they say the illustration is meant ironically, as a parody of the caricature some conservatives (and some supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.) are painting of the Obamas.
But it's still fairly incendiary, at least as these things go. I wonder what the reaction would be were it the Weekly Standard or the National Review putting such an illustration on their covers.
Intent factors into these matters, of course, but no Upper East Side liberal -- no matter how superior they feel their intellect is -- should assume that just because they're mocking such ridiculousness, the illustration won't feed into the same beast in emails and other media. It's a recruitment poster for the right-wing.
"This is as offensive a caricature as any magazine could publish," says a high-profile Obama supporter, "and I suspect that other Obama supporters like me are also thinking about not subscribing to or buying a magazine that trafficks in such trash."
But I would assume over at the Conde Nast building, they think it's droll.
I cannot imagine there aren't some angry, angry people in Chicago right now wondering if they should ever even talk to the New Yorker again.
Three cheers for the New Yorker. The radical Islamic enemies of America might find the association with our own America-hating presidential candidate a big revealing, but too bad.
The TRUTH is always unwelcome when it comes to America’s Democrat socialists.
“This is as offensive a caricature as any magazine could publish,” says a high-profile Obama supporter, “and I suspect that other Obama supporters like me are also thinking about not subscribing to or buying a magazine that trafficks in such trash.”
Trafficks?
In Amerika?
Keyword blueturban added.
Better buy a copy now, before the Obamao orders them destroyed...
For me, the irony isn’t the cover, it’s the idea that is how Liberals view the Obamao’s, as Black Revolutionaries come to shake up things.
The New Yorker says it is “satire”, but for comedy to have an impact, it must contain a grain of truth otherwise it is pointless.
It is my view that Britt at the New Yorker does view the Obamao’s in such a light, indeed, he must see them in that light...
Muslims have no sense of humor.
It is indisputable that he was raised as a Muslim.
I suppose if he had made a public statement rejecting Islam then he could be upset as being portrayed as one.
Lacking that he is just abeting confusion.
Muslims really hate cartoons.
A vast left wing conspiracy!
Obama and The New Yorker!
Obama supporters will be burning the Dutch Embassy over this cartoon.
If I’m not mistaken, in the 1930s Hitler’s propagandists did pretty much the same thing, as a means of defusing the common perception of Hitler as a warmonger. People will look at this and think (without actually articulating the words) “how absurd—the candidate of a major American political party acting as a grubby ‘60s radical!”
Forgot about that. We're liable to see mass riots and car burnings and maybe a beheading or two over this.
No complaints from them about these images though.
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