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New 'Ironic' New Yorker Cover Depicts Conspiracists' Nightmare of Real Obamas

The New Yorker is calling their latest cover "satire". I call it wonderful.

Obama is not laughing I hear. Why not? En the gonif brent a hitel. :)

Over at the Politico: I say blow it up and make campaign posters out it. It rocks!

At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to the diligent Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: “The upcoming issue of the New Yorker, the July 21st issue, has a picture of you, depicting you and your wife on the cover. Have you seen it? If not, I can show it to you on my computer. It shows your wife Michelle with an Afro and an AK 47 and the two of you doing the fist bump with you in a sort of turban-type thing on top. I wondered if you’ve seen it or if you want to see it or if you have a response to it?”

Obama (shrugs incredulously): “I have no response to that.”

Priceless stage direction by Maria.

The magazine explains at the start of its news release previewing the issue: “On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of the The New Yorker, in ‘The Politics of Fear,’ artist Barry Blitt satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.”

I’m sure Senator Obama is oh-so appreciative for The New Yorker’s help

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton says: “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."

Looks like the only thing they got wrong was the second amendment thing :)

Looks like they hit a nerve, Obama no happy

UPDATE: I did not have time to fisk the propaganda yet but low and slow pulled this gem:

From Obama's 9/19/2001 speech.

"We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

President Jihad ---

UPDATE:  Andrew Bostom: "A “Mirror to the Absurd”, or Just a Mirror?

UPDATE: Over at The American Thinker:

So Obama plays his race/cultural card against a friendly publication while many of his allies on the left dutifully follow his lead and condemn the piece because most of them fear that those of us who live out in flyover country "won't get" the satire.

Thin skinned Obama and his tone deaf, elitist allies; what a combination.

Update from Thomas Lifson: Doug Ross presents a montage of the sort of satire Bush, Cheney and conservatives are subjected to without provoking any whining or outrage.

My all-time favorite comes from Der Spiegel:

Isn't it time for Obama to man up?

The man is running for President. What a whining baby.

UPDATE: The comments are  over the top. Hysterical: over at Politico via Doug:

More hilarity at the Politico:

Was this a painting or did the New Yorker just take a picture of the two at their home?

Posted By: JD | July 13, 2008 at 06:47 PM

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Has anyone seen how George Bush is portrayed on the cover of, say, Der Spiegel? It's nice to see ridiculous caricatures at the expense of the Left.

Posted By: Jim | July 13, 2008 at 06:47 PM

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I understand that this cover is supposed to be satirizing the Right. So why is the Obama campaign spokesman saying it's tasteless and offensive? Doesn't he "get it"?

Posted By: Karl | July 13, 2008 at 06:50 PM

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What, and Republicans have never been satirized before? You guys are such whiners! Why is this cartoon more offensive than the dozens of others I've seen on this site of Bush, McCain, Obama, AND Clinton?

Posted By: sydney | July 13, 2008 at 06:50 PM

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The ONLY thing that's offensive is that the leftwing media suggests that the ONLY reason anyone would not vote for Obama is because they're racist. When the reality is that he has ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE for the job, whatsoever. It's infuriating and will bring even more conservatives out to vote against him.

Posted By: rinosaurusrex | July 13, 2008 at 06:51 PM

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Come on! Bush did it. No, it was Cheney. No, no.. it was Hillary. No, that's not right.. it was Rush. Ummm... no, it was the vast right wing conspiracy bored that Hillary is out. No, that can't be. Hmmmmm... who can we blame this on anyway? All the targets are used up!

Posted By: samuel | July 13, 2008 at 06:55 PM

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Just a hit job by the Likud-loving Jews of this country who care more about Israel than the US.

Posted By: le commentor | July 13, 2008 at 07:12 PM

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I could care less if Obama is pictured as a Muslim. Picture him instead as the most inexperienced candidate for the Presidency since William Jennings Bryan, the most liberal since the last Democrat to run, and the least knowledgable about everything from foreign affairs to tax policy. And this is what the Democrats intend to foist on us? Who are they kidding? Bring back Al Gore and John Kerry - at least they were just losers, not dangerous losers who are naive beyond imagination.

Posted By: James Marsden | July 13, 2008 at 07:15 PM

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Now, imagive if it were a picture of McCain in an angry rage while rolling around in a wheel chair with an IV hooked up to him, you upset Obama supporters would all be laughing your tails off, right? Face it... you're hypocrits.

Posted By: Hermann | July 13, 2008 at 07:18 PM

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What a filthy, disgusting cover! Sounds like this is the work of Karl Rove and his protoges' who have just gone to work for McCain... [Ed: the close relationship between Rove and the New Yorker is well-documented.] ...We are cancelling our subscriptions! We will never read another copy as long as we live.

Posted By: lyn | July 13, 2008 at 07:18 PM

 

 

Comments

[jj]

friends:

i just posted this note at the a.shrugs post, "corruption eruption: obama's garden of corruption and graft." http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/corruption-er-1.html . it seems no less appropriate here. it is extraordinary that no one has remarked upon this.

john jay

pamela:

i have been watching the "comment" section to this post for two days now, increasingly incredulous that no one has responded to the following language, linked to infidel blogger's alliance:

The man wouldn't get a garden built, are we supposed to hand him the keys to the Kingdom and all that treasure? And what, pray tell would he do with it? Apparently eh wants to create an army of lackeys, ""[W]e are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy," said Obama. "We cannot to continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." (Staggering, read it all at IBA)

obama said, "... we have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as our military."

just who is going to comprise this civilian "national security force?" who will hire and supervise them? and, just what in g_d's name will they do, what function will they have enforcing "security" that is not already covered by the fbi, the atf, and all the myriad federal police forces that we have now, not to mention the various state and local agencies already extent.

this is extraordinary.

this sounds like an army of occupation.

is it conceivable that many of the persons who might be hired into such an organization would be obama supporters, and of an ilk who might rapibly press for his most left wing programs. what is the demonstrated need for such a force, presumably well armed just like a military? since 911 the security apparatus has prevented further attack upon our soil, and has most assuredly thwarted many attempts and schemes to harm us on our own soil.

this strikes me, and forgive me for saying it but it is the age we live in, as being highly analogous to the integation of the nazi sa & ss into the apparatus of the german state, both organizations having sworn personal alliegance to the head of the nazi party, adolph hitler.

this is exceedingly disquieting. forget about the "cost" being equal to current funding levels for the military. focus instead on the implications of a security force as strong as our military, armed to the teeth, and devoted to the insinuation of its function into the domestic and civil affairs of this country. what, pray tell, is just exactly to stop this organization from concerns with and involvement in the shape and content of that civil life?

folks, it is no exaggeration to state, that at the height of neither the nazi regime nor the zenith of power of the soviet union's political and civil oppression, did any such analogous apparatus exist in either of those states.

john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2008/07/the-militia-bul.html

[neverforget]

This will be turned around by them saying it was a right-wing attack. Well, I think it perfectly captures these two black racist, Muslim-terrorist-loving, America-hating assholes.

[Timur]

The best satire comes from truth...

[Isabellathecrusader]

Is it just me or does Michelle look like Angela Davis with that 'fro?

Hey, check out this cool blog I found, Hip Hop Republican.
http://hiphoprepublican.com/2005/04/angela-davis-our-freind-communist.html

There's hope for us afterall.

[Dale in Atlanta]

New Yorker Magazine at the Newstand: $6.95
AK-47 on the Black Market: $800
American Flag burning in the Fire Place supplied by Presidential Advisor William Ayers : FREE!
Obama's Native Costume from his hometown Souk: 17.5 Dinars

When the New Yorker's attempt at "Satire" backfires because it turns out to be 100% TRUE: PRICELESS!


Looks like the "joke's" on them!

[Heroic Dreamer]

Hilarious! What a bunch of clowns at the The New Yorker...they think they satirize the right by satirizing Obama?!?! How does that work?

This is classic satire - it builds humor on what we know, or believe we know, about Obama and Michelle. Says nothing about the right.

And the "fist pound" is classic. This common satirical device - an unimportant, yet realistic detail - makes the exaggeration of the rest of the satire believable.

[jusa]

Didn't obama scold/complain to the head of SNL about his portrayal on there too?
This guy is going to be a real work as President. I want to see these people who scream at Dubya directly that he's a fascist, and then go home, try the same to this guy.

[lowandslow]

Some real gems in the article also.

From Obama's 9/19/2001 speech.

"We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

Good grief. And this might be our next President?

[elvis]

folks, it is no exaggeration to state, that at the height of neither the nazi regime nor the zenith of power of the soviet union's political and civil oppression, did any such analogous apparatus exist in either of those states. -John Jay

But the precedent was set during Mao's cultural revolution. And yes, you are correct to think the worst.

[jj]

elvis:

your historical point is extremely well taken re: mao's cultural revolution. very well taken. i am sorry only for not having thought of the parallel, ... , wish i had.

and, yes, i would think it very prudent to think the worst.

thank you for your kind remarks.

john jay

[elvis]

john jay-
Greg Everson has been thinking about it too.

The time is coming fast, when millions of Americans who understand what this colossal struggle is all about in the United States and around the world, have severe choices that will be required to be made. The UN will not simply allow the US to continue as a sovereign nation when the rest of the world is under its domination. That is not paranoia. That is simply the deduction one gets from understanding the UN’s published plans. Your future actions will determine whether you will go to the re-education camp, or the internment camp for “troublemakers” (read that constitution supporters). Did you really believe that those “conservative” republicans and “little guy” protecting democrats were going to keep you from harm? Remember this, they are the ones who allowed this situation to occur and wrote the laws that permit it to continue unabated with avengence. [sic]

[elvis]

Sorry, wrong link in my last comment. This is it.

[kobi]

one would hope that this cartoon (no riots please) would stimulate healthy, constructive debate on the true nature of oybama.

it is perhaps the classic,fundamental question of our time: appearance vs substance. how the guy wants you to perceive him and what he is really about.

in american public high school 'back in the day' we spent alot of time discussing and arguing this point regarding various literatures. methinks the educational system of late hath lost such insightful discourse. alas, poor america, i knew thee well.

[kobi]

let's also remember the great work of ben hecht aka rabbi kook, in america in the 1940s. there was not a 'receptive atmosphere' to the real dangers and tragedies going on in europe and hecht & co did remarkable work to illuminate for the people.

the true warriors for truth exist in america today. in the blogs and in various communities. let's hope that they can all work together to lift the veil from this suffocating cloud of messiahspeak from oybama & co.

btw, i am a former dem now indy, who doesn't support the entire republican agenda; however, i know a nutcase when i see one.

i hope that during the debates mccain will have an opportunity to say to oybama: "i was alive when dr. king was around, i heard him speak. and senator, you're no dr. king!".

[Miluimnik]

First Turner and now this! "All things beautiful"? (The Hussein family never looked better....they should bring out the prayer rugs and thank Allah for being featured in such artwork)

"...the precedent was set during Mao's cultural revolution. "

The American electorate have chosen to mimic the Red Guards in every way possible...and have done so for almost 20 years. (Clinton as Ghandi, Bushki as Jesus, and Hussein'O as the Prophet Mo')

[WRpeach]

Hey Barry, as Harry S. Truman said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." There’ll be more and worse heat than this IF, God forbid, you make it to the White House. So you and Burton should stop whining, put on your big boy pants and don’t start accusing The New Yorker of being part of "A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia" and "ginning things up." This is tame compared to what your race-monger, apostate preacher Wright said and you gave him a get out of jail free pass with, "you’re kinda rough."

[interestinconundrum]

Let's see...Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, Keith X Ellison. Who will fill the cabinet positions? Is America ready for 4 years of that?

[I_am_me]

Would someone please translate the Yiddish:

En the gonif brent a hitel

[Pamela Geller]

"En the gonif brent a hitel"

On the theif the hat burns"

:)

[pythagoras]

Some may call the New Yorker's cover "satire." Some may call it "wonderful." I just call it the plain, ol' TRUTH!

As for Ms. Obama, methinks the lady (we use the word loosely!) will protest too much!