Posted on 07/13/2008 3:32:05 PM PDT by Vision
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.
Much truth is said in jest!
(From one of the comments....)
Good characterization. Satire? I think not for most of us.
With a cover like that, one wonders if the New Yorker was making a coy attempt to torpedo Obambi.
It’s a beautiful thing when NYC nitwit snobs expose their real intellect.
Oh my goodness. I find this truly shocking. No sarcasm tag.
I have to admit my sympathies go to the Obamas on this one.
I have to admit my sympathies go to the Obamas on this one.
Are those human limbs in the fireplace?
Is this a parallel universe or a try to infuriate the Lefty New Yorker readers?
I think it’s the flag.
Jesse Jackson was just tryin’ to help when he mentioned cutting off Hussein’s nuts.
It looks like the New Yorker is obediently assisting Obama enhance his victimhood status.
I think its the American flag in the fireplace
I would never subscribe to the New Yorker, but I used to go through it to look at the cartoons. But even those have gotten pretty bad. You’re lucky to find one or two good ones in an issue, now.
Tina Brown started the New Yorker down the tubes, but after they finally got rid of her it only continued to get worse.
Too bad.
Rather delicious, actually.
Why do you have sympathy? I have none for someone who will drive this country to certain ruin.
It’s like taking a cab home after a night of drinking to prevent what would happen driving home wasted.
This is great.
Fallout tomorrow...maybe a HillBill ally?
Yes, and bin Ladin over the mantel.
Those are human limbs alright.
Does that mean...does that mean...omigosh...he’d still be throwing people under the bus’ even after his election (we hope not!)
The typical reader of The New Yorker may see this as a pro-Obama cover, meant to reassure them that he's still an OK guy, despite the FISA vote and waffling on some other issues.
Looks like the American flag to me
Me too. Used to love reading the Fiction story each week but at some point the lib bias just got too much.
Is that the Oval Office?
Way too close to the truth to be effective satire.
Just remember: Hillary hasn’t released her delegates, and the Dems’ convention isn’t until next month...
Why are they both so light-skinned in the cartoon? The artist slipped up, I think.
And once again - the filthy racism is from the left! But it’s ok, cause it’s “satire”.
I don’t feel a bit sorry for them. Looks like a good likeness to me. Heh heh.
Yes, and it shows the first couple - President and First Lady Hussein doing the “fist” ritual as they celebrate the conversion of the White House into a madrassa.
Whoa...
This is going to send some people over the edge. Satire, you say!
Same here,a seed has been planted.
From the KOS kids:
“OMFG! I’m sure it’s some kind of joke right? There’s no other ulterior motive to publish cartoons like this right? They got the new McCain Manchurian Candidate cover lined up for next week right?
This is disgusting. Might be worth cancelling a subscription or two.”
The cartoonists were called to a meeting back in the eighties and told to make their cartoons more political.
I like Obama’s sandals.
hey, that could just as easily be a mini 14
This is our warning, heed it or be prepared to live it.
This is the perfect issue to have framed for your den.
I guess you have two sympathies. LOL Not me, I detest those Marxist far left Liberal uppity snobs.
Strictly put there to sell copy, that’s it cut and dry. And guess what. It’s gonna work. When someone becomes famous, or infamous in this case, all the leaches want to use that person for personal gain. In this case it’s the “magic negro”!!
More truth than satire.
do you get the idea that some liberals are quietly sabotaging al obama’s campaign?
rwa265 wrote:
I have to admit my sympathies go to the Obamas on this one.
Comment:
WHY?
That’s one of their latest mantras, “The Politics of Fear.” Over and over and over again. Quite frankly, I think we should fear ALL politicians until we can find a reason not to. But when a politician appears to want to destroy our entire way of life, it is our duty to make people afraid.
It’s the American flag but the artist made it so that it also looks like human legs.
Check out the photo of Osama on the wall.
LOL!
The cover is an instant classic. I want the poster!!
My bet is that the New Yorker is packed with PO’ed Hillary supporters.
The question is, will the article be substantive; i.e., try to prove that each and every negative comment about the Obamas is a lie?
Or will it be the typical collection of contumelious comments aimed at those who are trying to gather information, pro and con? That is, us "clingers" I think is what we are called -- Hey! racist and bigot are soooooooo 20th century, about time they started calling us something new.
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