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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.

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I love it!  However it will likely produce sympathy for him which I don't love.

Welcome to big-boy politics, you shit-eating Chicago socialist hack.

I think I am going to buy that issue andhave the cover framed.

ETA: I don't see any satire

Couldn't have happened to a nicer PAIR of Racists.

Beautiful!!!

And from a libtard NYC magazine too!  Gawd this is going to be a fun race!  

AWESOME!

10/10  

So Michelle doesn't like domestic rifles?

AR>>AK FTMFW!

Like Aunt Esther from Sanford & Son used to say, "The truth... will set you free!"



"Watch it, sucka!"

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.

Looks accurate to me..........

the truth hurts



bitch

right click...save as

Suck it Obama.
Suck it long. Suck it hard.

Quoted: So Michelle doesn't like domestic rifles? AR>>AK FTMFW!

Nah that's a Century rebuild she has there.


Anyway it would make a nice verticle bumper sticker.

Love it when Dem's eat their own.

And there's the McCain campaign to suck his ass...

Quoted: Quoted: I love it!  However it will likely produce sympathy for him which I don't love. 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.

It's accurate though.

Quoted: And there's the McCain campaign to suck his ass...

Yep

Quoted: McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”

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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Quoted: Quoted: I love it!  However it will likely produce sympathy for him which I don't love. 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.

Agreed. When a mainstream liberal rag like the New Yorker throws him under the bus he's got problems.

The New Yorker shows the truth for once.

$4.50 for that rag?

Sweet!

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.

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

is that a picture of Bin Laden on the wall behind him

From the comments section in the original article;

"Much truth is said in jest "

Great photo

So for once somebody threw Obama under the bus instead of the other way around.

Nice.

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.

uh...except they are all anti-gun

should be a suicide vest

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.  

My new wallpaper.....I think I may even go have the image framed.

Oh yeah!!! I'm buying one and framing it and hanging it in my office!!!!!

Quoted: 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.

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.

Quoted: 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.

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).

Quoted: 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.

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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Holder lobbied for the company, which underwent one of the largest bankruptcies in American history after racking up nearly $12 million in debt, as it emerged from bankruptcy in 2002, Senate lobbying disclosure documents reveal." (Charles Hurt and Geoff Earle, "O's Veep Hunter Quits," New York Post, 6/12/08) Holder Was Involved In A Sweetheart Deal, Which Granted Fugitive Marc Rich A Controversial Pardon From Outgoing President Bill Clinton: "As Deputy Attorney General, Holder Was The Key Person Who Made The Pardon Of Marc Rich Possible In The Final Hours Of The Clinton Presidency." (Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, Op-Ed, "Obama's VP Search Mistake," New York Post, 6/5/08) Rich Was Under Charges Of Wire Fraud, Tax Fraud, And Illegal Trading With Iran. 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Lewis, "Records Show Puerto Ricans Got U.S. Help With Clemency," The New York Times, 10/21/99) A Subsequent Clinton Administration Justice Department Report Identified The Group As An "Ongoing Threat." "The Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN, 16 of whose members were pardoned by President Clinton in August, poses an 'ongoing threat' to national security, according to a September report by Attorney General Janet Reno released yesterday during a combative Senate hearing on the clemency decision." (David A. Vise and Lorraine Adams, "FALN A Threat, Reno Says," The Washington Post, 10/21/99) Link

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Was Jeremiah Wright Preaching Al-Qaida Propaganda? "I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother." -- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18 “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.” - Jeremiah Wright "That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?" " - Osama Bin Laden “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” (Sep 2001) “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.” - Jeremiah Wright "You attacked us in Palestine: Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily." - Osama Bin Laden "We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . ." - Jeremiah Wright "And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention." - Osama Bin Laden “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” - Jeremiah Wright "The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'." - Osama Bin Laden

Some magazine out of NEW YORK printed that?!?!?!


Wow, that actually might restore some of my faith in humanity.

Quoted: 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.

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!

Obamowned.

Quoted: Looks accurate to me..........

+ infinity

Quoted: Quoted: 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.   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!

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

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.

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