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Posted: 7/13/2008 4:33:25 PM EDT
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Scare tactic' — Obama slams Muslim portrayal By MIKE ALLEN The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife. An American flag burns in their fireplace. The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news. The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton 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 Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree." McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.” The issue, which goes on sale Monday, includes a long piece by Ryan Lizza about Obama’s start in Chicago politics. At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to a transcript by 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, shrugging incredulously: “I have no response to that.” The magazine explains at the start of its news release previewing the issue: “On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of 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.” Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post said Sunday on his CNN media show “Reliable Sources” that the cover is arguably “incendiary.” “I talked to the editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, who tells me this is a satire, that they are making fun of all the rumors,” Kurtz added. Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune defended it as “quite within the normal realms of journalism,” adding that “it's just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there.” The panelists agreed it would succeed in its goal of getting attention. www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11718.html |
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I love it! However it will likely produce sympathy for him which I don't love.
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Welcome to big-boy politics, you shit-eating Chicago socialist hack.
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I think I am going to buy that issue andhave the cover framed.
ETA: I don't see any satire |
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Beautiful!!! And from a libtard NYC magazine too! Gawd this is going to be a fun race! |
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To be truly complete and representative, he needs a Bible and the Constitution providing more fuel. |
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The Obamas really do have connections with people that planted bombs in the Capitol building, the Pentagon, and NYC Police headquarters along with many other places, and burned U.S. flags as well.
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It will produce surface sympathy. It will also however leave a very deep subconscious suggestion of thought in everyone that sees it. It will raise that seed of doubt for many who were on the fence. This was not satire. |
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Nah that's a Century rebuild she has there. Anyway it would make a nice verticle bumper sticker. |
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It's accurate though. |
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I love it, cuts straight to the truth as far as I'm concerned, which so few people are willing to do. And I can't stand you're spineless ass kissing piss-ant of a candidate either Tucker. |
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Agreed. When a mainstream liberal rag like the New Yorker throws him under the bus he's got problems. |
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I think I am going to buy that issue and frame it up at work.....for all the libs to gasp about - I love it!!! A very liberal magazine - one of their own -telling the truth about that "Obamanation".................maybe even a letter to the editor - thanking them from my 2nd Amendment US of A soul.
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It don't matter.
The black voting base will see it and agree. The real issue here is that alot of people see this and agree with/like it. I ride the bus every day and hear people talk about things like "this mic bane guy is gonna be a nother 6 years of Bush" Idiots vote |
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From the comments section in the original article;
"Much truth is said in jest " |
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So for once somebody threw Obama under the bus instead of the other way around.
Nice. |
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Ha! Now that is pretty funny. I must also say it is pretty accurate. While Obama may not be a practicing Muslim, putting him in the White House will effectively be giving the terrorists an ally because of his strategy of appeasement. So either way, you end up with the same results. Terrorism against Americans came of age during the Carter years. And it matured during the Clinton years. I hate to think how much further terrorism will advance under an Obama administration. But one thing is certain, it seems terrorists thrive when democrats with their weak foreign policy are in office.
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Guys, the New Yorker isn't slamming Obama. Y'all realize that, right? They're spoofing all the fearmongering rumors about him. You're all cheering it like they're going after him. They're mocking the folks who spread the Muslim-type rumors.
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My new wallpaper.....I think I may even go have the image framed.
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Oh yeah!!! I'm buying one and framing it and hanging it in my office!!!!!
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Yup, they are calling out all the right wing knuckle dragging, wife beating, trailer park dwelling rednecks that spread these rumors. The above statement is what the liberal elite think of all of us. And then there is Mccain running over people to get "on the record" condeming the drawing. I swear, I have never seen someone try so hard at not winning. |
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And they all get to vote. The New Yorker will probably have a large article attacking the right wing whispering campaign that Obama is a Muslim. This article will do its best to make the right wing look bad. The cover is over the top, which will probably sell a bunch more issues. It will also generate a bunch of news coverage about how Obama is not a Muslim and how the right wing is attempting to smear him because the right wing cannot defend their unpopular policies on ______ (insert issue). |
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What else could McCain do? He made the smart move. Anything else would imply that he supports the lies about Obama's religious faith. McCain has too much integrity to do that. |
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Some magazine out of NEW YORK printed that?!?!?!
Wow, that actually might restore some of my faith in humanity. |
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It's still not good for Obama though because it allows the few media outlets that attempt to stay somewhat objective re-visit the Reverend Wright stories and the Bill Ayers stories and all the other connections that Obama has that make this cover so truthful. Besides, Obama already has the subscribers who read this magazine sewn up. What he needs is the ones that don't read it but will see the TV stories about it. The more Obama has to send people out to deny that he's a radical kook, the more opportunity people will have to say to themselves "Maybe there is some truth to him being this cover." I think the Jesse Jackson thing and now this cover are the cracks that are starting to form in the levee that has been holding back all the dirt that exists on this guy. Keep chipping away! |
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+1. You are all a bunch of fear-mongering jackasses for daring to believe these obvious lies and rumors about the beloved Barack Superstar Obama. There is nothing to fear here. Move along. And McCain's campaign falls all over itself to stick its foot in its mouth. Again. |
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Well said. The problem for the New Yorker is they don't realize that it's who they are. It would have been clever if the cover portrayed these two buffoons as something other than who they are. In the coming days the editorial staff could have egg on their faces. HA |
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First amendment. They can print what they want.
If Obama says otherwise because it is offensive, then he must also push to condemn other offensive expressions - such as the burning of the flag. ktm500 |
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