Although Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama often has The New Yorker on his campaign plane, this week’s issue is probably not on board.
The magazine cover depicts Obama wearing a turban as he offers a fist bump to his gun-toting wife, Michelle. The American flag singes in the fireplace and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs over the mantle.
Editor David Remick defended the cover and said, “Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd.”
The Obama camp called the cover “tasteless” and campaign spokesman Bill Burton said that “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. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive—and we agree.”
The magazine cover depicts Obama wearing a turban as he offers a fist bump to his gun-toting wife, Michelle. The American flag singes in the fireplace and a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs over the mantle.
Editor David Remick defended the cover and said, “Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd.”
The Obama camp called the cover “tasteless” and campaign spokesman Bill Burton said that “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. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive—and we agree.”
2 comments:
talk about subliminal messages, flag burning in fireplace and picture of Osama on the wall, this is low down and as dirty as it gets,i sure hope it is anyway. i expected it to get down and dirty but who knew that they were going to start using the big guns so early, we still have to get to November! i'm already sick of the slime, i wish the election was over so we can get on with the work ahead. The New Yorker claims they were just bringing to the forefront the false beliefs some Americans have about the Obamas but to the contrary i believe they are just fueling the fire. the only saving grace hopefully will be the most uneducated folks won't ever see the cover since they don't read anyway.
That's right deb! Face value folks wont get past the cover!
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