New Yorker Cover pisses off Obama camp

[manifold]

At least the New Yorker had the decency not to add a picture of Mohammed to the cartoon.

 

[Ravi]

From AOL News:


Does Burton have a point? Sure. This image will no doubt become an e-mail-forwarded classic. To his enemies, the cover will represent not a joke, but the ultimate "I told you so!" Essentially, then, the argument against the cover is that it's too subtle for stupid people to understand. Thus, The New Yorker should lower its intellectual standards so that the basest among us (including those that the cartoon is lampooning) don't get the wrong idea.

To my mind, however, the cover art helps Obama more than it hurts him because A) it is funny, and B) it confronts the outlandish perceptions that many have Americans have of Obama head on. The image won't convert anybody into thinking Obama is a terrorist, it simply exposes the prejudices that already exist. Besides, it's good practice for when the real life Obamas take over residence in the White House. After all, an American president is perhaps the single most popular subject for cartoonists in the world.

Then why is Obama's camp having a fit?

 

[Steerpike]

Then why is Obama's camp having a fit?

Politics.

 

[jillian]

Then why is Obama's camp having a fit?

His camp might not agree with Echo's opinion on the cover.

 

[manifold]

I have to agree with Rav on this one. Obama's camp should have laughed it off IMO.

 

[random3434]

His camp might not agree with Echo's opinion on the cover.

That was from someone else,
Here is the link, sorry I forgot to put it in from AOL:



New Yorker's Obama Cover Touches Nerve - Political Machine

 

[Ravi]

I guess if he hadn't had a fit he wouldn't be able to justify kicking women with headscarves out of his rallies.

 

[random3434]

Well, the emails have started already.

I got this one from my republican brother with this title:



Even the New Yorkers can see BHO for what he is! ‏ 10:32 AM


Then it had a link to the pic.


I have a feeling this is why Obama's "camp" is pissed off. "Some" people don't see it as satire..............


Just my opinion.

 

[Ravi]

So, should we ban satire? No more cartoons about candidates that might be taken out of context and used against them?

 

[editec]

Well, the emails have started already.

I got this one from my republican brother with this title:



Even the New Yorkers can see BHO for what he is! ‏ 10:32 AM


Then it had a link to the pic.


I have a feeling this is why Obama's "camp" is pissed off. "Some" people don't see it as satire..............


Just my opinion.

Yeah, I think you're right. In order to be satire it would have needed to be funny and give you some clue as to the real intent.

I also think the Obamanians should have tried to laugh it off, too.

I might have gone with some of my staff laughingly suggesting to the talking heads that the right wing machine is so pervasive that even the New Yorker thinks Obama might be a Moslem, or something like that.

But the fact is that this was the New Yorker, so simply asking for clarification by the Obama machine is going to elicit a shitstorm of contraversy.

There was not positive outcome avenue to this gaffe that I can see for the Obama camp, there was only damange control, whih, per usual, they aren't really all that good at.

 

[random3434]

So, should we ban satire? No more cartoons about candidates that might be taken out of context and used against them?

Ah, no, not my point Ravi.



Some people JUST DON'T GET SATIRE!



By the way, if you like satire, go here, it's the best!


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[bush lover]

Of course the picture is a true depiction of the traitorous Obama couple. They are Moslem terrorist sympathizers who want to secretly take over our government, and everyone knows that. The terrorist-loving Moslem Obamas will hand over our great nation to Iran if they get elected, which won't happen. Our current President, a heroic veteran of the Vietnam era, will attack Iran before that could happen. However, the picture shows Mrs. Obama holding a machine gun, and I bet she's is against guns, like all of the Socialist liberal terrorist lovers who hate our freedoms, America, our President, our troops and our Way of Life. Traitors.

 

[Diuretic]

Of course the picture is a true depiction of the traitorous Obama couple. They are Moslem terrorist sympathizers who want to secretly take over our government, and everyone knows that. The terrorist-loving Moslem Obamas will hand over our great nation to Iran if they get elected, which won't happen. Our current President, a heroic veteran of the Vietnam era, will attack Iran before that could happen. However, the picture shows Mrs. Obama holding a machine gun, and I bet she's is against guns, like all of the Socialist liberal terrorist lovers who hate our freedoms, America, our President, our troops and our Way of Life. Traitors.

Bollocks.

 

[Ninja]

Props to The New Yorker for a 100% accurate depiction of the Obamas

 

[Diuretic]

The evidence is mounting

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Bollocks.

Bush Lover is a troll, ignore him, most of us do.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The reason the supporters of Obama are outraged is because he is the "Savior" he is special, no one can crack a joke about him and by GOD they will not post images like this even in satire about him.

I mean ask the dumb shits on this board that support him, what his positions are. They can't answer, cause he has none. They are all gone vote for him cause he is black and a Democrat. Not sure which is more important to them though.

 

[Charles_Main]

Bush Lover is a troll, ignore him, most of us do.

Yeah, I am starting to think he is either a) just saying the most sensational BS he can to get a rise or b) actually a Dem who is trying to make the other side look like fools, Either way he it would be best just to ignore him.

 

[Ninja]

The evidence is mounting

Revenge of the Hillary supporters

 

[Ninja]

The reaction from Obama's camp makes him look weak.

He's a very thin-skinned, petty man.

A dear friend of mine (who unfortunately is an Obamabot and DNC loyalist, that is to say, hopeless) was bragging to me about some new website the BHO campaign put up called fight the smears. I'm embarrassed to say that I actually bothered to look it up.

Talk about childish

Barack Obama Loves His Flag and His Country

Lie 1: Barack Obama won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Lie 2: Barack Obama won’t put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.
Truth:

Watch Barack lead the Pledge of Allegiance:



[youtube]VIyBwkuqF4E[/youtube]

Fight the Smears | Barack Obama Loves His Flag and His Country

Gotta love the URL

This guy has a very severe personality disorder and IMO is 100% unfit for office