New Yorker Magazine, forthcoming 7/21/08: Terrorist OBAMAS on the COVER
NOT photoshopped.
This is the real deal.
The New Yorker is a liberal rag. Why do you suppose we'll see a cover featuring Barack Obama and M'chelle, fist bumping together in the Oval Office, with Baracky dressed like a tribal version of Osama bin Laden (whose picture is on the wall above the fireplace, in which an American flag is burning), and with M'Chelle dressed like a Ché Guevara revolutionary? Hmmmm?
There's satire and parody involved, I suppose. I guess New Yorker wants to make fun of the stuff some Americans believe; to hardy-har-har the e-mails circulating that are showing Baracky in Muslim drab (that never happened...did it?)
This is going to backfire. New Yorker will hear from the nutroots. The MSM backlash is already starting.
From ABC's Jake Tapper...
"Knowing the liberal politics of the magazine, I believe the magazine's staff when they say the illustration is meant ironically, as a parody of the caricature some conservatives (and some supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.) are painting of the Obamas.I'm glad to see the old New Yorker lighten up and poke a bit of fun at the Obamessiah.
"But it's still fairly incendiary, at least as these things go. I wonder what the reaction would be were it the Weekly Standard or the National Review putting such an illustration on their covers." [They would be CRUCIFIED! But if it were John McCain and his lovely wife, that would be just fine.. -ed.]
"Intent factors into these matters, of course, but no Upper East Side liberal -- no matter how superior they feel their intellect is -- should assume that just because they're mocking such ridiculousness, the illustration won't feed into the same beast in emails and other media. It's a recruitment poster for the right-wing." [I don't think many on the Right will consider this anything but funny...after doing a double-take and making sure we're not holding the ONION -ed.]
"This is as offensive a caricature as any magazine could publish," says a high-profile Obama supporter, "and I suspect that other Obama supporters like me are also thinking about not subscribing to or buying a magazine that trafficks in such trash." [Oh, you freakin' crybaby, Get Over It. The filth your ilk's disseminated and the lies you've repeated about George Bush would make a thousand similar magazine cover illustrations seem relatively mild. We've a lot of catch-up to do... -ed.]
Maybe there is some Hillary revenge behind this (given New York City's loss of a possible President and the cash she could direct their way)...you never know, given she's a Clinton.
Yes, this cover is a pretty thing, isn't it?
Nothing I would ever give the New Yorker a red-state cent over, though.
Labels: Barack Obama, Loud Laughter heard here ;D, M'chelle, Nobama '08, political cartoon, Politics
posted by Serr8d @ 7/13/2008 07:23:00 PM
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