Posted on 07/13/2008 4:50:34 PM PDT by XR7
The New Yorker says it’s 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 you’ve 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 Obama’s campaign.”
I’m sure Senator Obama is oh-so appreciative for The New Yorker’s 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, it’s tasteless and offensive.”
Keyword blueturban added.
Obviously a fake; there is no Che poster.
with a flag burning in the fireplace and who’s that on the wall, Osama?
Obama probably okayed this...
ditto.....
This is beyond funny.
And inexplicable, but I’m not complaining.
Not that there is anything wrong with Obama being a muslim.
It is tasteless and offensive to think of those two socialist, anti-American people infesting the White House for 4-8 years and running our country into the ground.
Let’s just say it might look to an outsider like Jesse, Bernie Mac (my man) and this rag are more than happy to set em up so Barry can knock em out.See also, from Hot Air:
...This makes the third bigoted attack from the Left on Obama.Two weeks ago, it was Ralph Nader acting as the arbiter of black authenticity, and last week it was Jesse Jackson wanting to castrate Obama.
One side in this cycle certainly seems obsessed by identity politics, but so far it isn’t the Republicans.
If it's legit, then I think its tasteless and offensive too........
No, not one, conservative news magazine could get away with a cover line this without facing the 24-7 wrath of the MSM. John McCain would pontificate against it, and a Bush Administration spokesman would denounce it, along with the leadership of both parties. But of course a liberal magazine can do it without payback.
I guess that I’ll have to start working on it. The Obe cover should have a portrait of Cyn on the wall behind the Mrs. to balance Osama behind the Mr.
It's Angela Davis!!
In the new issue of The New Yorker there is a long piece about what makes Obama tick. The author, Ryan Lizza, went looking to find out and found that the ticking is just Chicago politics as usual. No change, no new direction. Just plain ole’ politics. It’s a long piece so I’ve taken only bits and pieces of it that are relevant to understanding the messiah.
They start with someone who was beside him early on in his political career but became quite disillusioned by him:
Preckwinkle soon became an Obama loyalist, and she stuck with him in a State Senate campaign that strained or ruptured many friendships but was ultimately successful. Four years later, in 2000, she backed Obama in a doomed congressional campaign against a local icon, the former Black Panther Bobby Rush. And in 2004 Preckwinkle supported Obama during his improbable, successful run for the United States Senate. So it was startling to learn that Toni Preckwinkle had become disenchanted with Barack Obama.
Preckwinkle is a tall, commanding woman with a clipped gray Afro. She has represented her slice of the South Side for seventeen years and expresses no interest in higher office. On Chicago’s City Council, she is often a dissenter against the wishes of Mayor Richard M. Daley. For anyone trying to understand Obama’s breathtakingly rapid political ascent, Preckwinkle is an indispensable witness—a close observer, friend, and confidante during a period of Obama’s life to which he rarely calls attention.
Although many of Obama’s recent supporters have been surprised by signs of political opportunism, Preckwinkle wasn’t. “I think he was very strategic in his choice of friends and mentors,” she told me. “I spent ten years of my adult life working to be alderman. I finally got elected. This is a job I love. And I’m perfectly happy with it. I’m not sure that’s the way that he approached his public life—that he was going to try for a job and stay there for one period of time. In retrospect, I think he saw the positions he held as stepping stones to other things and therefore approached his public life differently than other people might have.”
On issue after issue, Preckwinkle presented Obama as someone who thrived in the world of Chicago politics. She suggested that Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for political reasons. “It’s a church that would provide you with lots of social connections and prominent parishioners,” she said. “It’s a good place for a politician to be a member.” Preckwinkle was unsparing on the subject of the Chicago real-estate developer Antoin (Tony) Rezko, a friend of Obama’s and one of his top fund-raisers, who was recently convicted of fraud, bribery, and money laundering: “Who you take money from is a reflection of your knowledge at the time and your principles.”
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/13/obama-your-typical-politician/
I do wish McCain would just shut up and let Obambi fight his own battles.
As someone who will hold my nose close my eyes and cross my toes while voting for McCain Obama would be so much worse especially since dems will 99 percent sure get more control of congress.
Mccain is our country’s only hope for not a complete and total disaster by 2012. That is sad.
Root for the Cubs. Jim Hendry has political aspirations and he’s the Cubs GM and very conservative. And he could be Illinois only hope for a rep senator.
Like Rush as stated, never underestimate the Clintons for their fondness of smear tactics. Nothing is coincidental as far as they are concerned.
The ‘New Yorker’s’ Junior Senator is...who?
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