“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree,” Barack Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton
Barrack Obama is the whitest black man this side of Colin Powell-and Powell flatly refused to run for President. So it’s hard to whip out normal racial stereotypes on this pale thin dude who wants to be President. The New Yorker magazine cover shows Barack Obama and his wife Michelle dressed as terrorists who pulled the wool over every one’s eyes and made it to the White House.
Americans love people we know nothing about. We don’t want to see them on the cover of New Yorker magazine, we don’t want know what they think. If a total unknown could get on the ticket a couple of hours before the General Election, they would win by a landslide. As it is, we have to spend months learning all this stuff about the people running for President that we don’t want to hear.
There is a photo of Barrack Obama dressed in bizzaro world clothes when he was a child that made the rounds a while back. Yes, it is normal clothes for the Muslim world, but Barack Obama keeps telling us he is not Muslim-he’s good old fashioned I Hate Whitie Christian. Oh, wait, he said he quit that church-and never really listened to the Preacher while he was there for twenty years anyway. I guess the New Yorker Magazine artist didn’t want to crowd the image with a portrait of Reverend Wright.
I especially like the touch of the American Flag burning in the fireplace under a portrait of Osama bin Laden-well, Barrack’s middle name is Osama, isn’t it? Need we way more?
The Barrack Obama New Yorker cover is surely meant to be a joke-this just raises the question: what’s funny about it? Well, not much. The Editors at The New Yorker said it was clearly a joke and that all it’s reader would get the many inside jabs about how wrongly Barack Obama has been portrayed in the media. Really? It looks more like The New Yorker Magazine is endorsing those view of Barrack Obama.
Political Cartoons are usually meant to show the Real World that we poor readers are too dumb to see and understand. This cartoon clearly states that Barack Obama really is a terrorist waiting to overthrow the American Way of Life. I’m sure he is against Truth and Justice as well.
The New Yorker Magazine has been on the downhill slide for a while now-long gone are the days when it was a shame not to read every word of every article. This is clearly an attempt to get some much needed attention for this sinking ship. And that, at least, The New Yorker has succeeded in doing.
