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New Yorker mag's 'satire' cover draws Team Obama's ire

Wow.....


BY STEPHANIE GASKELL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, July 13th 2008, 11:08 PM


Cover of July 21 issue of The New Yorker depicts Barack and Michelle Obama in extremist roles.


Barack Obama's campaign lashed out Sunday at the editors of The New Yorker magazine for a cartoon cover that depicts the Democratic candidate and his wife as fist-bumping terrorists.

The magazine's editor described the cartoon, called "The Politics of Fear," as satire. The Obama campaign called it "tasteless and offensive."

The Illinois senator is depicted in traditional Muslim garb in the Barry Blitt illustration set in the Oval Office.
His wife, Michelle, is in fatigues, sporting an Angela Davis-style sky-high Afro, an AK-47 slung over her shoulder.

A portrait of terror kingpin Osama Bin Laden hangs above the fireplace, in which an American flag is set ablaze.

"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.

New Yorker editor David Remnick seemed shocked by the backlash.

"Our cover ... combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are," he said in a statement.

"The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall - all of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover," Remnick said.

The magazine does not explain the cover. Inside are lengthy stories that look at how Chicago politics shaped the candidate and at allegations that he flip-flops on major issues.
Obama brushed off the brouhaha. "I have no response to that," he told reporters when asked about the cover, but his supporters are infuriated.

The McCain campaign joined in piling on The New Yorker. "We completely agree with the Obama campaign that it's tasteless and offensive," said campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds.

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Michelle Obama?

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The Terrorist fist jab?....are these people stupid?




LinkFOXNews' E.D. Hill On Obama's Fist Bump: "A Terrorist Fist Jab?"

brogers

That is a photo shopped image.

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The fist jab?
Who would photoshop that? I saw the televised fist jab.

DaMayor

LOL! A pretty ballsey move by New Yorker.

I can see Obama getting upset, but his background does lend itself to this sort of satire....what does he expect?

lucifuge

I think he means the text.
as for the magazine cover, I find it rather funny.
I'll admit it's pretty poor taste, but political cartoons always are.

brogers

The text. I just watched the video the host says a bunch of different ways people interpret the fist-thingy, I think "terrorist fist jab" is absurd, but maybe that is how some folks perceive it. Just looks like a slow news day to me.

At no point did it show Obama+Michelle with the text rolling across "Obama's terrorist fist jab."

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Oh, that photoshop text went far in the internet.

oaktownboy

when your name is Obama, what do u expect is going to happen in a white society? What I hate is how companies like the New Yorker will have to go and apologize on tv for just joking around when the biggest racist of them all, Jesse Jackson, goes on tv saying how blacks are still being held down bla bla bla bla, and all white people should feel bad . I can't tell you the number of times I hear blacks call white people crackers where I live and get away with it. freedom of speech and freedom of the press...Where did they go?

Chuck Norris once lost his keys and couldn't remember where he put them. So he tortured himself for half an hour until he gave up their location.

maniclion

What, do you record every minute of Fox News so you can catch up on what you've missed?

maniclion

That looks like something MAD Magazine would out on their cover with an Alfred P. Ladin portrait....

The Monkey Man

Fuck Obama...
I want to see his staff pull the race card on this...

If he does, his whole campaign will lose credibility...


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I don't see a flag being burned there nor do I see his wife toting a machine gun, where's Osamas picture and the terrorist fist jab?

The Monkey Man

I'm just saying... They can't even try to act like they didn't used to look that way.

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mcguin

New Yorker=Awesome!

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The Monkey Man

Please...

If Ms Obama didn't write all this PRO Black- We need to change society- crap when she was younger, the cartoon wouldn't make sense...

I'm sick of being made to feel like i'm some asshole because i'm white.
Me or none of my relatives have ever owned a slave.

My mothers family were farmers and loggers,
and my fathers family were coal miners...
Everyone was poor.
Big deal, stop whining

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Do you need a hug?

DOMS

You're trying to take the high road by explaining how you feel and hoping for intelligence and understanding.

Me, I'm talking the low road; I hate them right back.

mcguin

hilarious! I hear ya! but friggin hilarious!

tallcall

I want to give you all a big hug!

Group hug !

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