Satire : Muslim Barack with Gun-Slinging Michele Obama

Like many politicians, Obama is paradoxical. He is by nature an incrementalist, yet he has laid out an ambitious first-term agenda (energy independence, universal health care, withdrawal from Iraq). He campaigns on reforming a broken political process, yet he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game. He is ideologically a man of the left, but at times he has been genuinely deferential to core philosophical insights of the right.

Written by (RL) - one of Obama's many brainwashed minions working for Liberal media.

What exactly is defamatory about it, though?

http://www.tellingthoughts.com/asides/the-new-yorker-running-for-cover

The New Yorker / Running for Cover?
By john ⋅ July 14, 2008 ⋅ Email ⋅ Print ⋅ Trackback ⋅ Comment
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It appears as though "The New Yorker" is now running for cover over their outrageous and highly defamatory Obama magazine front cover. Possibly grounds for a costly New Yorker payout after Senator Obama gets the election out of the way.

Below is the New Yorker cartoonist's response to an emailed complaint over the cover. It was posted early today by an Obama supporter MK, on one of the Obama site threads.


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New Yorker Cover Artist's Response to My E-mail | Report to Admin

By MK Today at 2:52 am EDT

Here is Barry Blitt's response to my e-mail expressing my hurt and distress at his New Yorker Cover…

I am distressed to receive your email. All I can tell you is it was my intention to depict the
hideous innuendo and scare tactics circulated in the media as the ridiculous lies that they are.

My drawing was intended to appear preposterous and ridiculous. That it is being taken at
face value is very upsetting, and directly opposite to its intention. I am sorry for the hurt
it has caused. I cannot actually believe this cartoon, which was meant to mock the bigots
and xenophobes who spread lies, will actually give them license.

I hoped the image would get people talking about the falsehoods being spread about the Obamas.
I still hope that will be the case.

I am sorry once again.

Barry Blitt

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Angela Davis? I thought she looked like Ted Nugent.
She's black enough in the cartoon anyway.

So what did all of you think about the story the cover was pointing to? Very interesting picture of a complete, master politician. From page 15:

Ryan Lizza, New Yorker wrote:

Like many politicians, Obama is paradoxical. He is by nature an incrementalist, yet he has laid out an ambitious first-term agenda (energy independence, universal health care, withdrawal from Iraq). He campaigns on reforming a broken political process, yet he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game. He is ideologically a man of the left, but at times he has been genuinely deferential to core philosophical insights of the right.

I guess I'm the odd man out on this topic. I got the satire immediately and found it amusing. I definitely agree it failed it's objective though.

I remember getting my hair cut a few months ago, and the lady said...

lady: "I sure like that Obama, but I don't think I would feel comfortable with voting for a muslim."

me: "He's not a muslim."

lady: "I don't know."

me: "What don't you know?"

lady: "I just don't know."

me: "There seriously is no controversy over this topic, he's a Christian."

lady: "Well... I don't know."

It was around that time I became alarmingly aware of how potent this rumor had become. It's the rumor that won't die. I thought for a while that possibly the Rev Wright non-sense would mean something if the public was to extrapolate the obvious.

Not everyone got it.

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Gala--

What exactly is wrong with the portrayals from a racial viewpoint?

I guess I'm the odd man out on this topic. I got the satire immediately and found it amusing. I definitely agree it failed it's objective though.

I remember getting my hair cut a few months ago, and the lady said...

lady: "I sure like that Obama, but I don't think I would feel comfortable with voting for a muslim."

me: "He's not a muslim."

lady: "I don't know."

me: "What don't you know?"

lady: "I just don't know."

me: "There seriously is no controversy over this topic, he's a Christian."

lady: "Well... I don't know."

It was around that time I became alarmingly aware of how potent this rumor had become. It's the rumor that won't die. I thought for a while that possibly the Rev Wright non-sense would mean something if the public was to extrapolate the obvious.

Not everyone got it.

T
K
O