Michelle Obama Barack Obama New Yorker Magazine July 2008 Cover Photo
The campaign team for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has blasted the latest issue of the New Yorker Magazine as “tasteless and offensive.”
The cartoon cover depicts the Illinois senator and wife Michelle Obama, in a Somali robe and turban, exchanging a fist bump in the Oval Office-a portrait of Osama bin Laden and an American flag in the fireplace are also featured in the image.
“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,” Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
“We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive,” a spokesman for Senator McCain said.
Written by Castina on July 14th, 2008 | Tagged as: Barack Obama,Michelle Obama
On September 28th 2008, Dee wrote:
LET'S NOT FORGET THE HEROS WHO RAPE, MURDER AND MAIMED THE INNOCENT OF AMERICAS WAR GAMES AND BRUTAL REGIME. THIS HYPOCRACY THAT WE HAVE IN AMERICA IS OLD, TIRED, AND JUST SAD…WHY IS IT THAT ONLY THE ANGLOS ARE RIGHTEOUS AND EVERYONE ELSE IS DEPICTED AS UNRIGHTEOUS AND DEMORILIZED..YOU RACIST SICK BASTARDS NEED TO STOP BRINGING OTHER EQUALS DOWN AND FACE THE FACTS YOU ARE NO LONGER THE MAJORITY AND SOON WILL BE EXTINCT, DUE TO THE CURRENT MENTALITY OF THE NEW GENERATIONS OF REAL AMERICANS ..THOSE WHO SEE US ONE …ALL DERIVED FROM THE LOINS OF A BLACK AFRICAN .
On October 12th 2009, elisa wrote:
This is such an ignorant cartoon! How stupid is the editor of the New yorker to allow such retarded depiction of anyone in this publication? This is a bad image of the inteligence of the american people in magazines. Looks like the New Yorker is dominated by DUMB REDNECKS!!!!!