NewYorker Cartoon of Obama! Gone Too Far?
@whiteheather39 (24403)
United States
July 14, 2008 6:35am CST
Do you think the New Yorker Magazine has gone too far with it's cartoon of Obama and his wife?Barack Obama had no response to the cover of the July 21st issue of The New Yorker Magazine, seen below, except to shrug incredulously and tell reporters, “I have no response to that.”
The cartoon features Barack and Michelle Obama celebrating with a fist bump in the Oval Office in front of a portrait of Osama bin Laden and an American flag burning in the fireplace. Mrs. Obama is portrayed as a militant radical, while Obama appears foreign. The image reflects, some might say mocks, the rumors that have plagued the couple over the last 18 months.
While the candidate declined comment, his campaign did not. “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,” spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
The magazine features a lengthy article on “how Chicago shaped Obama.”
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/07/13/obama-campaign-calls-new-yorker-magazine-cover-tasteless-and-offensive/
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@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
14 Jul 08
I'm on the same page as Obama. I don't know whether or not the New Yorker is merely satirizing all the silly rumors that came up about Obama, but even if they are, I've come to see all these things as stupid. Not just the artwork discussed here, but the rumors about Obama in general. It's like having a kid who doesn't like you come up to you and telling and handing you a picture of your face with a crude mustache and devil horns drawn on it. It's all so childish, you don't know what to think of it, so you simply shove it to the back of your mind and forget about it.
I do think it's hilarious that the general public provided them so many misconceptions to parody. Some of the are so far fetched you have to wonder what these people were smoking when they came up with them.
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@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
15 Jul 08
From the news comments I have heard, most of Obama's supporters are putting a positive spin on the incident as being the inevitable satirical humor that happens in election years, and think it will have the desired positive effect of showing people how ludicrous it is to think Obama is a Muslim terrorist bent on taking over the world for Islam. The related article inside the magazine presents Obama in a positive light. But one has to ask oneself if most people will go so far as to read the article explaining the satire, or if they will merely view the cover in passing. What is the overwhelming message people will be getting from that piece of art? In my opinion, they went too far, but they are sure to sell a lot of magazines because of the publicity it is getting.
