14.7.08

How F****** DARE THEY

Who drew this picture? Its rude, and in very poor judgement- so probably an american-
Well,
I never met a MUSLIM person I didn't like.

The Obama's are not Muslim, but I still want them in office!













Mag satire panned; Depicts Obamas as Muslim, terrorist-
The real terrorists are already in the white house

Democrats and Republicans are calling a New Yorker magazine cover tasteless and offensive for its satirical depiction of Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife, Michelle, as a gun-toting terrorist.
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Democrats and Republicans are calling a New Yorker magazine cover tasteless and offensive for its satirical depiction of Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife, Michelle, as a gun-toting terrorist.

A satirical New Yorker magazine cover depicting Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife as a gun-toting terrorist has drawn a unanimous reaction Monday from both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns that it is "tasteless and offensive."

The illustration, appearing on this week's issue, is titled "The Politics of Fear" and shows Obama in the Oval Office in sandals, robe and turban giving a "fist bump" to his wife, Michelle, who is outfitted in combat boots and an assault rifle. A painting of Osama bin Laden hangs above the fireplace in which an American flag is burning..

"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," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."

Republican John McCain's campaign spokesman, Tucker Bonds, concurred that the cover was "tasteless and offensive."

In Arizona, McCain said the cover was "totally inappropriate and frankly I understand if Senator Obama and his supporters would find it offensive."

Yippie skippy, John

New Yorker editor David Remnick told The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar that the image was meant to "hold up a mirror to the prejudice and dark imaginings about Barack Obama's — both Obamas' — past, and their politics."

Remnick said the drawing, by Barry Blitt, "combines a number of images that have been propagated, not by everyone on the right but by some, about Obama's supposed 'lack of patriotism' or his being 'soft on terrorism' or the idiotic notion that somehow Michelle Obama is the second coming of the Weathermen or most violent Black Panthers."

Blitt, in an e-mail to The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney, wrote: "I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic (let alone as terrorists) in certain sectors is preposterous. It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is."

David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist, called the cartoon "poorly executed" but said the campaign was not going to dwell upon it.

"We've got a lot of problems in the world," he said on MSNBC'sMorning Joe.

"Did we like it? No. Is it the focus of our attention? No."

Contributing: The Associated Press


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