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CHICAGO (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker magazine's satirical cover depicting him and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals doesn't bother him but that it was an insult to Muslim Americans.
"You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things," the presidential candidate told CNN's Larry King. "And for this to be used as sort of an insult, or to raise suspicions about me, I think is unfortunate. And it's not what America's all about."
Obama blamed himself for not being forceful enough in challenging some of the rumors about him, including that he is Muslim. Obama is Christian.
The son of a Kenyan father, Obama lived in the largely Muslim nation of Indonesia as a child. He dealt with similar questions in February after a photo surfaced of him wearing traditional Kenyan clothing during a visit to Africa in 2006.
The cover of the magazine, which hit newsstands Monday, depicts Obama in traditional Muslim clothing — sandals, robe and turban — while his wife, Michelle, has an assault rifle slung over one shoulder and is dressed in camouflage and combat boots with her hair in an Afro. A flag burns in a fireplace behind them as they bump fists, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs above the mantel.
New Yorker Editor David Remnick told the Huffington Post Web site the cover was chosen because it had something to say.
When first asked about it on Sunday, Obama declined comment. His spokesman, Bill Burton, said it was "tasteless and offensive."
Obama said he's developed "a pretty thick skin" running for president and has "seen and heard worse."
"I do think that, you know, in attempting to satirize something, they probably fueled some misconceptions about me instead," he said. "But, you know, that was their editorial judgment. And as I said, ultimately, it's a cartoon, it's not where the American people are spending a lot of their time thinking about." CHICAGO (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker... more
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"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!"The editor of the New Yorker on Monday said he has no regrets about running a... more
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The much-excoriated New Yorker cover is no more over the top than a thousand other satirical cartoons produced by the left and right. Political satire always goes for the gut. It's a knife fight of dueling typewriters and cartoonists' pens. It's often over the top and vicious and it's supposed to be. If it wasn't, it would be it would be a wonkish, stuffy policy discussion - boring as hell and not nearly as stress-relieving as a good belly laugh.The much-excoriated New Yorker cover is no more over the top than a thousand other... more
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Selling votes on eBay may cost $10,000
A college student allegedly asked a minimum of ten dollars in exchange for voting at the upcoming presidential election, according to the whim of the highest bidder oneBay. Now he faces up to five years in prison and a $US 10,000 fine.
Max Sanders, a student at the University of Minnesota, was charged with bribery, treating and soliciting under an 1893 state law that makes it a crime to offer to buy or sell a vote.
The scarcely used law had its heyday in the 1920s, when many people sold their votes in exchange for liquour, reports the Associated Press.
Sanders put the offer at the internet auction as a joke, but prosecutors seem to find no humour in it.
"We take it very seriously. Fundamentally, we believe it is wrong to sell your vote," said John Aiken, a spokesman for the office. "There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, 'I can be bought.'Selling votes on eBay may cost $10,000
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Tit for tat:
"For all the irony-challenged literalists who were upset by the New Yorker's Obama-as-a-muslim magazine cover, here's one for you..."Tit for tat:
"For all the irony-challenged literalists who were upset by the... more
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Yesterday almost 100,000 people gathered in Rome to protest against the Italian government and "a parliament compelled to make laws that make Berlusconi unpunishable".
During the anti-government rally, two comedians made personal attacks on the Pope, President Giorgio Napolitano and the Minister for Equal Opportunties Mara Carfagna.
Guzzanti provoked the most ire by attacking Pope Benedict XVI, saying that ''in 20 years he'll be dead and he'll go to hell to be tormented by two gay devils''.
She also gave voice to recent rumours about Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna by alleging that the ex-showgirl had had oral sex with Premier Silvio Berlusconi in return for political promotion.
Grillo meanwhile attacked Napolitano for giving a green light to a government bill that would give legal immunity to Berlusconi.
The two comedians won the crowd's ovations by telling the president to f*** off.
Yesterday almost 100,000 people gathered in Rome to protest against the Italian... more
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Was it all a game? The in-fighting for the primaries looked so realistic, yet looking at these two now you would think they had been lovers for years. The two are spending increasingly long hours together on Barack's election tour bus planning the Democratic campaign against John McCain.Was it all a game? The in-fighting for the primaries looked so realistic, yet looking... more
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The election was hard fought between the two campaigning candidates: Robert Mugabe and Robert Mugabe. The election was hard fought between the two campaigning candidates: Robert Mugabe and... more
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"Our future president has piloted the fastest jets in the world during his distinguished military service. Do you think he's going to stop driving fast machines? Hell no!" a senior GOP representative told the quarterly edition of Scooter Magazine."Our future president has piloted the fastest jets in the world during his... more
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Senator McCain is followed everywhere he goes by a dedicated medical team consisting of three ambulances, a mobile operating table, 23 nurses, 14 doctors and dedicated resuscitation unit.Senator McCain is followed everywhere he goes by a dedicated medical team consisting... more
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The John McCain campaign is being accused of deception in its advertising, by utilizing images of a fit and trim young man and claiming that it’s the senator.
“These images show up repeatedly in several of his ads,” according to Joseph Stubin of the Institute for Campaign Honesty. “In one ad, for example, the man is dressed as a young Navy pilot and is clearly forty years younger than John McCain.”
“In another ad, we see a close-up of this same man lying cozily in bed, smoking a cigarette. His face is much thinner than McCain’s, not even a close match. In another one, this kid is being escorted toward the camera by a uniformed Naval Officer and kinda salutes the camera. You can see a spring in his step that we don’t associate with Senator McCain.”
Stubin calls it a case of intentionally deceiving the public. “It’s akin to KIA advertising its vehicles by showing the viewers a Mercedes.”
The Institute asks that John McCain remove the images of this young man from his ads, and replace them with ones of himself. “Everyone knows McCain is grey and paunchy,” Stubin said. “He doesn’t have to hide it. The American public responds much better to honesty than to slick advertising.”
--TheRepublicant.orgThe John McCain campaign is being accused of deception in its advertising, by... more
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John McCain rejected an endorsement today by that well-known icon of the fast-food world, Mayor McCheese.
“On behalf of all us here in McBurger Land," said McCheese at a press conference earlier in the week, "I wholeheartedly endorse McCain for McChief."
But that endorsement was short-lived when a video emerged on YouTube showing McCheese discussing his atheism with a box of McNuggets. “If there was a God,” McCheese asks in the video, “would he allow innocent pieces of crispy chicken to be eaten and digested by the thousands, only to end up in sewage plants around the world?”
Sen. McCain characterized the remarks as sacrilegious and said he cannot accept the endorsement of anyone “including a huge, talking cheeseburger” that doesn’t accept the concept of the Almighty.
To which the mayor responded, “Go McF--k yourself.”
-- TheRepublicant.orgJohn McCain rejected an endorsement today by that well-known icon of the fast-food... more
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The elephant, long the familiar symbol of the GOP, has followed the Marlboro Man into the dustbin of retired icons.
A special committee appointed by the RNC, headed by Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter, has chosen a new emblem, which will be unveiled at the 2008 Republican convention. The logo, a graphically designed mound of human excrement adorned with horizontal red and white stripes, with an elegant fountain of streaming white stars emerging from the center, was selected from over ten thousand entries from artists around the world.
"We wanted a symbol that stood for the real essence of what it is to be Republican," said the former Speaker of the House. "For many years now, people have associated the old GOP elephant with being fat and self-indulgent. So we went in a new direction, showing Americans from all walks of life that ours is the party of Waste. The hard part was deciding from which animal it would come."
The committee members initially considered elephant droppings, but retracted this idea because it "seemed a bit too obvious," laughed Gingrich. The idea to use a graphic depiction of human feces was born after attending a fifty-thousand dollar a plate Republican dinner.
"That's when Ann Coulter plopped out the design," said Gingrich. "The escargot was particularly fatty. Suddenly, Ann comes running out of the ladies' room, and she's all, 'Newt, you gotta see this.' It was an amazing turd -- curved, gnarled and twisted -- and we just looked at each other and new immediately that we found our feces. And it's that very feces that will be depicted on bumper stickers and campaign posters for the next hundred years. This feces will forever be associated with the Republican party, and Ann Coulter, in particular."
--TheSkunk.orgThe elephant, long the familiar symbol of the GOP, has followed the Marlboro Man into... more
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"Senator John McCain today called for a three month "Gun Holiday," during which gun control laws nationwide would not be enforced.
"With the economy tanking and the country involved in an undeclared war, I felt it was time to do something to spur the sales of gun manufacturers, who have been hurt by this recession as much as anyone else," said McCain. "So for three months, we should lift the ban on assault weapons, cease all background checks, allow peoples of every age to carry a concealed firearm, and release from prison anyone convicted of using a gun in the commission of a crime."
The three month "Gun Holiday" would follow McCain's "Gas Tax Holiday" and "Call Girl Holiday."
"People love holidays," said McCain, "When I'm president, I'll declare a holiday for every issue that confronts us -- no matter how serious. There's nothing Americans can't celebrate if they put their minds to it"."
--TheRepublicant.org"Senator John McCain today called for a three month "Gun Holiday,"... more
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Spitting Image is back on tv after a 10 year absence but this time there will not be latex puppets but computer generated caricatures. Sounds good though.Spitting Image is back on tv after a 10 year absence but this time there will not be... more
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Lmao, /swish the onion scores again, the last time I laugh this hard was the Disgruntled Ninja Silently Kills 12 Co-Workers, http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39001
Lmao, /swish the onion scores again, the last time I laugh this hard was the... more
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I had a good laugh from this one:
"the Clinton camp had uncovered paternity tests as well as damning photos linking the Illinois senator [Obama] to 'at least two black children'. Spokespersons for the Obama campaign released a simple statement declaring the allegations 'patently false' and 'without merit'."
The caption accompanying the picture is as follows, "Pictured above: Some African American children who may or may not have been fathered by Barack Obama at somepoint during the 1990's."I had a good laugh from this one:
"the Clinton camp had uncovered paternity... more
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Obama is the great uniter. He is bringing black and white together for sure. An amazing story from a UK satire site.Obama is the great uniter. He is bringing black and white together for sure. An... more
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