Obama New Yorker cover

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

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.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmart...make_it_up.html

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I agree with Bill Burton, although it's too bad that people take things so literally that they can't see satire for what it is.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

It's so over the top that I laughed when I saw it.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It's so over the top that I laughed when I saw it.

It is.

[Ggreen 12]

It's so over the top that I laughed when I saw it.

yes, it's fake...the next time the cover will show Obama drinking water.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

at least michelle likes to keep and bear arms.

[Peikko 1,575]

Nuance, layers, irony, lampoon, more than one dimensional.

Now mass media has been expunged of any and all of these, what's next?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Satire generally only works if you have a good understanding of what it is that you're actually satirising. This works IMO - its so OTT that you have to wonder about the people who have characterised Obama that way.

[Staashi 371]

Living in the deep south, I wish I could say that my fellow countrymen would look at that cartoon and say, "Oh I have been foolish all this time - the Obamas are just like you and me." In reality though, they'll see that cartoon and say, "See, Thelma, I told ya so - I knew Obama was a radical terrorist and his wife was a Black Panther Militant!" Sadly, something like this sets him back in so many ways.

Edited July 14, 2008 by Staashi

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Does anyone think that those who believe that Obama is a muslim read the New Yorker anyway?

[Savanphil 3]

OMG, I almost missed the flag!

[Ggreen 12]

Does anyone think that those who believe that Obama is a muslim read the New Yorker anyway?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Satire generally only works if you have a good understanding of what it is that you're actually satirising. This works IMO - its so OTT that you have to wonder about the people who have characterised Obama that way.

Well stated.

[Ggreen 12]

Living in the deep south, I wish I could say that my fellow countrymen would look at that cartoon and say, "Oh I have been foolish all this time - the Obamas are just like you and me." In reality though, they'll see that cartoon and say, "See, Thelma, I told ya so - I knew Obama was a radical terrorist and his wife was a Black Panther Militant!" Sadly, something like this sets him back in so many ways.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Does anyone think that those who believe that Obama is a muslim read the New Yorker anyway?

Or read? anything? at all?????