New Yorker Cover Depicts Conspiracists' Nightmare of Real Obama's »
Posted By TimALoftis 3 months ago in NewsObama spokesperson Bill Burton: "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."
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CRYMTYPHON3 months ago
It is hard to believe that the New Yorker would be gullible, naive and unsophisticated enough not to see such a depiction for what it is: a slanderous assault.
Pathetic.
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silvera3 months ago
In my opinion The New Yorker has always been a little self consciously hip. I'm sure they think they are being so clever and satirical with the cartoon but I'm afraid, as someone mentioned in the article, it will just feed the beast and become a recruitment poster for the ignorant right. I'm sure that when Fox "News" gets a copy they'll flog it to death in that cute little way they have.
New Yorker, you crossed the line.
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NoWayMan3 months ago
you and poeple like aniokly just don't get it, do you?
the new yorker cover, misguided as it is, is actually calling you, and people like you, an idiot for believing all this "secret muslim" nonsense.
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Beau78903 months ago
Then I guess that makes you a duck, automan. You quack on every thread about Obama out here.
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NoWayMan3 months ago
in reality this is a case of the new yorker being too clever for its own good. and in the process of making a joke about the cons who believe the "secret muslim" nonsense, they've actually given the right some visual ammunition to use since most cons will certainly re-appropriate the image for their own (most likely lame) joke while not seeing that they are the ones who are the actual butt of the joke.
it would have been a better, but more obvious, joke if it was a picture of McCain and Cindy in the oval office dressed as a muslim and terrorist doing the "secret muslim handshake." that way it would have been clear who the joke is aimed at. but the new yorker chose to out-clever themselves, and in the end made a misguided and tasteless play.
me thinks (me hopes at least) the new yorker mulled over this point then went with the obamas in the picture instead of the mccains since they wanted to create controversy (read: sales) around the picture. which they did.
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Tcaros3 months ago
They mentioned that 12% of voters still think Obama was raised Muslim!
I mentioned this on one of my posts. We have some real idiots out there who affiliate themselves with the Republican party.
Here's what they say, "Ah, well you know that Obama is a Muslim. We can't have a Muslim in the White House."
These are the same idiots who fell hook and sinker over the "Fox news generated" scandal about the pastor in his Christian church. Now does that make any sense?
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bill29363 months ago
I have heard many Democrats say the same thing in the primary as a reason to vote for Hillary. Now did they mean it then? Will these Democrats feel the same in November?
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nostalgia2 months, 4 weeks ago
"We have some real idiots out there who affiliate themselves with the Republican party."
I guess you ignored the polls that were being taken during the primary
"the impression that Obama is Muslim crosses party lines: 14% of Republicans, 10% of Democrats and 8% of independents think he is Muslim."
http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1277
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