The New Yorker Defends Obama cover
source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/15/obama.cover/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/15/obama.cover/index.html
"The editor of the New Yorker on Monday said he has no regrets about running a cover illustration that portrays Barack Obama in Muslim garb and wife Michelle Obama as a gun-toting militant, despite widespread criticism of the image."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," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
David Remnick, the longtime editor of the highly-regarded publication, told CNN's "The Situation Room" that he believes the ironic intent of the illustration will be clear to most Americans.
"The idea is to attack lies and misconceptions and distortions about the Obamas and their background and their politics. We've heard all of this nonsense about how they're supposedly insufficiently patriotic or soft on terrorism," the The New Yorker editor said. "
In a way, this cover HAS helped Obama, because he's been able to debunk all of the mythology in one fell swoop- as they say, no press is bad press!
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unicorn77
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NO reason for New Yorker to express regrets... they actually made Michelle look good lol... and Obama exactly as he is a Muslim
- 4 years ago
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unicorn77
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CarlosIsDown
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If they were really trying a "satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," then wouldn't it have been better if instead they had a picture of Sean Hannity or another "right-wing Obama critic" with a thought bouble and in that thought bubble they could've put militant michelle and muslim barrack.
- 4 years ago
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CarlosIsDown
