The Obama cover liberals will hate
July 13th, 2008 . by Number 9The New Yorker magazine will push some social boundaries in its July 21st edition.
Barack Obama’s campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Obama 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.
But you have to admit, it is a good likeness of the charming couple.
It’s a good cover but it’s missing a picture of Farrakhan in a George Washington white powdered wig hanging on the wall and a bunch of elitist white kids surrounding him as they sport this year’s most fashionable suicide bomber vests.
Shane Brainscan and Alyssa Gulled, your fashion/fascism coordinator is calling.
Damn, sorry, Number 9, I didn’t know you had that in the pipeline.
Want me to pull mine?
I killed it here.
Put it in the Pub.
This is great, poking fun at the ignorants … Faux News and the ‘terrorist fist jab’ … even funnier to see the idiots that don’t even know they’re being made fun of … lol !!!
You have to admit, the Afro and the AK-47 is a nice touch…
Check out Serr8d’s link, the picture is bigger and you can see Ms. Obama’s maniacal smile.
The picture reminds me of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
You know what Obama’s going to say about this, right?
“Yeah, I saw that. In fact, I’ve got a call into Mr. Blitt now, as I’d like to buy the original, if he’ll part with it. I’ll proudly display it in the Oval Office, after I’m sworn in as the next president.”
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Heh. No so funny to the netroots.
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This is gonna be better than the nutz! cutting commentary. I think the overload may put the left into an even worse state than they already inhabit.
See happyfeet’s comment at the Pub thread.
Somehow, just watch, the GOP is going to get smeared with this.
This is gonna be better than the nutz! cutting commentary.
Oooooh! ODS!
Honestly, taking a few crazy fuckers’ comments on a blog, and holding that up as bar for your expectation of the responses from Obama’s supporters, overall, is a fine fuckin’ recipe for disappointment.
So, by all means… carry on!
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Somehow, just watch, the GOP is going to get smeared with this.
You astute motherfucker, you! You should work with Bill Hobbs.
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Is that a picture of the Allahtola ? And the US Flag is burning in the fire place. That’s omaba alright
Karl Rove had to be behind this.
Karl Rove had to be behind this.
God Bless him.
Seriously though. What was the New Yorker thinking with this cover? Is the article available yet? I just don’t get why a liberal elitest mag like the New Yorker would do something like this?
Uh, to drum publicity to sell magazines?
To whom? I mean is this something the average New Yorker reader is going to approve of?
Here’s a excellent free seminar on meaning and intent.
We’ve seen those maddened leftists wrest the meaning and intent away from the artist and watched it turned completely around, and enjoyed the popcorn while the artist’s target audience beats him to a pulp! And, we have the silly drawing out in the open, where we can all laugh at it for the rest of the political season (and on into the future) while the Obamas fume.
Still, in fairness to the artist, I believe there’s some uncovered nuance surrounding this whole episode. Because much of this backlash was so obviously predictable there has to be someone behind a curtain.
Smells of Clinton.
Maddened leftist
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I dunno Serr8d, it’s probably just about selling magazines.
Glen: this issue contains a feature that is likely to arouse the interests of a readership that extends far beyond the typical New Yorker base.
Their marketing “experts” probably weighed the risks vs. rewards pretty carefully before they decided to run that cover.
I didn’t know JP was running off at the mouth over here . . . oh well. Here’s an apparent report from Andrea Mitchell’s on the cover:
During Monday’s “MSNBC News Live,” [Mitchell] asserted that “critics” say the cartoon cover “depicts almost every false stereotype that Republicans have been launching against Barack Obama, plays into all the fears that are being generated on the web.”
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