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Knowing how spooled up them Mooslims get over cartoons, I'd be a little worried that some of Obama's more radical supporters might head down to the New Yorker offices with Ginsu knives in their hands and murder on their minds. Just sayin'.

Obama Furious over Muslim New Yorker Cover

New Yorker Cover: Obama as Muslim

Monday, July 14, 2008 9:00 AM

WASHINGTON � Barack Obama's campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is "tasteless and offensive."


The illustration on the issue that hits newsstands Monday, titled "The Politics of Fear" and drawn by Barry Blitt, depicts Barack Obama wearing traditional Muslim garb � sandals, robe and turban � and his wife, Michelle � dressed in camouflage, combat boots and an assault rifle strapped over her shoulder � standing in the Oval Office.


The couple is doing a fist tap in front of a fireplace in which an American flag is burning. Over the mantle hangs a portrait of Osama bin Laden.


"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," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."


A spokeswoman for The New Yorker did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press.


The magazine's editor, David Remnick, said in a statement to the Daily News in New York that he was surprised by the reaction.


The cover "combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them (the images) for the obvious distortions they are," he said.


"Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd," Remnick said.


Republican John McCain's campaign spokesman, Tucker Bonds, agreed that the cover was "tasteless and offensive."


Already the cover was generating controversy on the Internet.


The Huffington Post, a left-leaning blog, said: "Anyone who's tried to paint Obama as a Muslim, anyone who's tried to portray Michelle as angry or a secret revolutionary out to get Whitey, anyone who has questioned their patriotism � well, here's your image."

I quite agree that it is "tasteless and offensive"......






It is tasteless and offensive that Osamabama is even in the running for POTUS.

Mike

Even more tasteless and offensive is the fact than he could win!

It's been pulled, from all shelves, nationwide, with no more to be printed.

1st Amendment, what?

Haven't seen that anywhere, Sean. Got a link?

Try to buy one. They don't exist.

B&N will tell you that "they are sold out, nationally; and no more will be printed." And pretty damned flat about it, too.

Same story, if you get any response other than "no", anywhere else.

Ain't no damned way it sold out that fast and The New Yorker won't print any more....

It got pulled.

.....Candy asses. Don't wanna offend the black messiah do they???

Went to pick it up from the PX today, they told me they pulled the issue back from the distributor. Same story at the Air Force Academy Exchange............................THIS IS BULLSCHITT!

Would you really expect Obama NOT doing damage control???
Any existing copies are REALLY gonna be collector items for sure.

Suppression of the press is what i call it, and it doesn't sit well with me. Not at all!

That is nuts..... where does he get the "juice" to do that????? The bas-turd<that one has to leave a mark.... not the being "pasture breed" part... the lying about it all these years part....

Do we need a president who must be treated with kidd gloves? Do we need a president who can't take it by the press? Do we need a lightweight for president?

Well, there goes the 1st Amendment, just wait and see what the Obama Machine can do with the 2nd.

Can't make fun of the new Messiah, huh? How easily the lib press can be intimidated by one of their own. I'll hit the newstands today and see it I can find one.

So, if this suppression of the press offends you so much, what can you do about it? I don't like it either but what can you do?

If someone tells a bad joke, or something that they thought was a joke, and someone else finds it offensive then the joke teller takes it back and appologizes, is it suppression?

Raise a big stink, loud and proud! And that is what everyone of us need to be doing. Les