Netroots and Obama Loving MSM Up In Arms Over New Yorker Cover
Terry Trippany on Jul 14 2008 at 6:52 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Media Watch
Could this be the left’s equivalent of the Danish Muslim Cartoon upheaval? Doubt it, but it may be close! It seems the thin skin of the Kos kiddies and their supporters in the MSM are a bit upset over a satirical look at Obama that hits a little too close to home. (h/t Newsbusters)
Didn’t the libs at the New Yorker know that you aren’t allowed to poke fun at Barack Obama even if it is supposed to be a parody of the right?
The Politico printed the following reaction from the Obama campaign.
The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “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.” [...]
The magazine explains at the start of its news release previewing the issue: “On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of 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.”
10 to 1 you will have trouble finding this magazine on store shelves if it doesn’t get recalled before making it there ahead of time. This is going to be another Path to 911; remember when Clinton’s Politburo got Scholastic to pull the educational resource kit as a teaching tool for school kids and the producers had to change the script to cleanse the truth?
Wait for it.
See also: Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Bits Blog
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