The New Yorker magazine latest cover has this tasteless picture of Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle with Barack depicted in traditional Muslim garb and Michelle in fatigues and sporting an Angela Davis style giant Afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder. And to make matters worst the picture is set in the Oval Office of the White House.
New Yorker editor David Remnick seemed shocked by the backlash from the Obama’s campaign manager and many others. “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 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.
My sentiment is that is you are going to go with outlandish satire for a candidate you must have their opponent on the same cover with something just as ridiculous. I understand that “controversy sells” but they crossed the line with the flag burning and Bin Ladin
Senator Obama brushed off the brouhaha. “I have no response to that,” he told reporters when asked about the cover, but his supporters are infuriated. We all know how well versed Barack is at brushing off the bull. You can always guarantee that he will show class and strength in the face of this kind of foolishness. Barack Obama ‘08 - YES WE CAN!!!
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