Posted on 07/14/2008 1:41:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Barack Obama's team has decried The New Yorker magazine for a cartoon cover depicting him in traditional Muslim garb and his wife as a terrorist. The magazine says the cartoon is intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator. An Obama campaign spokesman said the cartoon was "tasteless and offensive". A spokesman for John McCain, Mr Obama's Republican rival in the presidential election, also criticised the cartoon.
The image, drawn by Barry Blitt and featured on the front cover of this week's New Yorker, shows Mr Obama wearing traditional Muslim dress, while his wife, Michelle, is dressed in combat trousers and carrying a machine-gun. The couple are shown standing in the Oval Office, greeting one another with a "fist bump", with an American flag burning in the fireplace, and a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall. 'Mirror to prejudice' In a statement, The New Yorker magazine said the cartoon "combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are." The New Yorker said the cover, called "The Politics of Fear", was a critique of unfounded allegations that have tried to portray Mr Obama, a Christian, as a closet radical Muslim. "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 prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover," the statement said. The portrayal of the Obamas "fist-bumping" one another was a reference to a campaign rally in St Paul, Minnesota, back in June, at which the couple were seen to "fist-bump", an action described by one Fox News commentator as a "terrorist fist-jab".
The presenter - E D Hill who subsequently lost her Fox News show - later apologised for the comments, and insisted that they had not been meant seriously. The New Yorker said that this week's edition carried two "very serious" articles about Mr Obama. But Obama spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the cartoon, saying: ""The New Yorker may think... 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." |
The title of that issue: An Inconvenient Truth.
Barack and Michelle in the Oval Office?
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Posted by: Mike's America @ 12:07 pm in Uncategorized
New Yorker Magazine makes unfunny cover about the Democrats first couple!
Notice the American Flag burning in the Oval Office fireplace with
a portrait of Osama bin Laden above the mantle.
YIKES! Imagine if this was produced by Fox News. I suppose its OK if a liberal publication engages in this sort of thing?
LOL
Nice Photoshop
Thnks for posting that image....
Dukakis had his tank picture. And now Obama has the New Yorker cover. And Obama’s will become as famous as Dukakis’ now is.
Obama - Your Typical Politician
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Posted by: Curt @ 11:31 am in Barack Obama, Uncategorized
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. Its a long piece so Ive 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 Chicagos City Council, she is often a dissenter against the wishes of Mayor Richard M. Daley. For anyone trying to understand Obamas breathtakingly rapid political ascent, Preckwinkle is an indispensable witnessa close observer, friend, and confidante during a period of Obamas life to which he rarely calls attention.
Although many of Obamas recent supporters have been surprised by signs of political opportunism, Preckwinkle wasnt. 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 Im perfectly happy with it. Im not sure thats the way that he approached his public lifethat 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 Wrights Trinity United Church of Christ for political reasons. Its a church that would provide you with lots of social connections and prominent parishioners, she said. Its 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 Obamas 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.
~~~I asked her if what she considered slights or betrayals were simply the necessary accommodations and maneuvering of a politician making a lightning transition from Hyde Park legislator to Presidential nominee. Can you get where he is and maintain your personal integrity? she said. Is that the question? She stared at me and grimaced. Im going to pass on that.
And then Ryan Lizza continues on to tell the whole story of his rise in politics, and those he ran over to get there:
They were trying to make fun of the politcal right, so it's OK. The only "problem" is that it wasn't obvious enough that they were making fun of us instead of Obama. It's the satire version of friendly fire.
funny how the article doesn’t mention ONE THING about what the cover represents :) nor is there a ‘title’ or description on the cover.
“An Obama campaign spokesman said the cartoon was “tasteless and offensive”.”
In a related story, the Obama campaign has called for jihad to be directed at all responsible for this abominable act.
Militant
I’m just not seeing the joke. What in this cartoon is supposed to be parody? Other than Michelle Obama with a “machine gun” I’m not seeing anything here that can’t be independently substantiated elsewhere on this forum.
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by Ryan Lizza July 21, 2008
That one is worthy of coming from the Internet.
Oh No....now you’ve done it.....
“In a related story, the Obama campaign has called for jihad to be directed at all responsible for this abominable act.”
My first thought was ‘Obama’s first fatwa’.
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