This interesting Election Season…
July 14th, 2008 | by Lennie Appelquist | |
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Just when you thought it was safe to start looking at the issues this political season, The New Yorker publishes this cover:
This is part of the article I read…
Barack Obama’s campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Obama in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.
ADVERTISEMENTAn American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it’s satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “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.”
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”
For me, satire or not it reeks of continuing horrible stereotypes. ‘Nuff said.
Tags: Barak Obama, John McCain, Michelle Obama, New Yorker, Politics, Satire
