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    This illustration provided by The New Yorker magazine, the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue by artist Barry Blitt, shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist. The magazine says the cover is meant to satirize the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Obama(AP Photo/New Yorker)

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    i think its funny and im voting for obama.

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    I don't think its that funny. If anything to me its defamation of character.
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    I think it's beyond fucked up. I'm voting for Obama and it really pisses me off. Why the fuck does it matter if somebody is Muslim? I don't give a shit what religion you are or aren't as long as you can make positive changes for the shitty state this country is currently in.

    If Obama stood up today and said "I'm a Christian", nobody would think twice.. if he stood up today and said "I'm a Muslim" people would go ape shit and he would be a terrorist and blah, blah, blah. Seriously, who gives a fuck? This is why I hate religion and all the ugly things it does to people.

    ETA: I think I just used every curse word known to man in this post. My bad. I get really angry about stuff like this.

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    Fucked up.....UH, say, didn't 9/11 partially occur in NYC? Geez.

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    I don't think it's entirely fucked up, but I do believe their claims of the satirical reasoning behind it. I don't feel any harm was meant by it. They are an over-all liberal mag.






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    Funny, pointed social commentary or fucked up? No not at all. Without and taste at all? Definitely.

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    When a satirical cartoon is not understood as satirical by the masses then it just becomes hurtful and of no value. The cartoon is meant to ridicule Obama's critics but instead it serves as twisted information for the ignorant. The New Yorker published it in very poor taste, so my answer is, Fucked Up.

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    Tasteless IMO. SAys more about the New Yorker then about anyone else.

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    Should say something to the journalistic elite! Should be the wake up call to them that they are as out of touch with the american people as the elected officials.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rooster470 View Post
    The cartoon is meant to ridicule Obama's critics but instead it serves as twisted information for the ignorant.
    Exactly. Just as a few people reading this thread have not understood the satire (with indignation at least), many, many more Americans will simply see the cover and reinforce their own ignorant delusions. I think it's in very poor taste, especially for a cover. Maybe less so for a political cartoon inside the magazine though...

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    Quote Originally Posted by loveandluxury View Post
    I think it's beyond fucked up. I'm voting for Obama and it really pisses me off. Why the fuck does it matter if somebody is Muslim? I don't give a shit what religion you are or aren't as long as you can make positive changes for the shitty state this country is currently in.

    If Obama stood up today and said "I'm a Christian", nobody would think twice.. if he stood up today and said "I'm a Muslim" people would go ape shit and he would be a terrorist and blah, blah, blah. Seriously, who gives a fuck? This is why I hate religion and all the ugly things it does to people.

    ETA: I think I just used every curse word known to man in this post. My bad. I get really angry about stuff like this.
    FYI: he is a Christian. Carry on.

    And Budai: I dont think the majority of the country will get the satire the drawing means. Maybe if the NYer included something that showed McCain with a gun hidden and a halo on his head, people might get it. Ha.

    And yes, I am voting for Obama.

    Love it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheSexKitten View Post
    Exactly. Just as a few people reading this thread have not understood the satire (with indignation at least), many, many more Americans will simply see the cover and reinforce their own ignorant delusions. I think it's in very poor taste, especially for a cover. Maybe less so for a political cartoon inside the magazine though...
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    I think it's silly...I mean everyone knows Michelle Obama uses an RPG instead of an AK-47 when committing terrorist acts. I'm voting "amoebic dysentery" for president...as a single celled organism it possesses more functioning brain cells than Obama (his voter base and Congress combined also, but that is besides the point), plus it doesn't take 4 years to get rid of once the shit hits the fan.

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    It could be funny if it was used in the correct context (for instance a cartoon of Bill O'Riely shouting "See I told you!" at the cartoon Obamas or something). But they didn't, and the cartoon isn't funny.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tauries View Post
    I'm voting "amoebic dysentery" for president...as a single celled organism it possesses more functioning brain cells than Obama (his voter base and Congress combined also, but that is besides the point),
    OK, so I have a good friend that work full time on the Obama campaign ....and I think I'm gonna steal and use this just to ruffle his feathers.

    So ... I shall just thank you now for this, kthxbai.

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    A New Yorker magazine article that has generated national political controversy over its cover image depicting Sen. Barack Obama as a Muslim has reprinted as fact a discredited distortion of the Holocaust made in several speeches by Obama.
    It also reprinted military claims by Obama about his family that are inconsistent with records.
    The lengthy article by New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza quotes an antiwar speech Obama delivered in Chicago in 2002 in which the Illinois senator claimed U.S. troops serving alongside his grandfather during World War II liberated the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
    The U.S. Army did not liberate Auschwitz, which is in southern Poland and was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945. America liberated the Nazi concentration camps of Buchenwald in Germany and Mauthausen-Gusen in Austria.
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    But the New Yorker piece quotes Obama stating in 2002, "My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's Army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow-troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don't oppose all wars."
    The fact checkers at the New Yorker may have missed the widespread media attention garnered in May when Obama made similar comments during a Memorial Day speech at which he told an audience his uncle liberated Auschwitz.
    "I had an uncle who was one of the, part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps," Obama said in speech in New Mexico. "And the story in our family was, is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic, and he didn't leave the house for six months."
    Obama was using the story to promote better benefits for troops.
    When the media pounced on the story, pointing out the U.S. did not liberate Auschwitz, Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton issued a correction. Obama was referring to his great uncle, a member of the 89th Infantry Division that liberated the Ohrduf camp, part of Buchenwald, in Germany, said Burton. Burton said the great uncle, Obama's grandmother's brother, is still alive.
    The New Yorker's reprint of Obama's claim about his grandfather also contained another inconsistency – the grandfather, Stanley Dunham, did not sign up for the U.S. army "the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed."
    WND reported in May Army records showing Dunham signed up June 18, 1942 – six months after Pearl Harbor.
    In his autobiography, "Dreams of My Father," Obama states his grandfather never engaged in combat.
    "Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family moved to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill," he writes. "But the classroom couldn't contain his ambitions, his restlessness, and so the family moved again."
    The New Yorker did not immediately return a phone call request for comment.
    It was Lizza's New Yorker article that caused a campaign storm this week when the magazine printed a cover image depicting Obama in Muslim garb and wife Michelle sporting an afro and carrying a machine gun in the Oval Office. A picture of Osama bin Laden hangs over the fire place in which an American flag is being burned.
    The New Yorker explained its image was meant to be a satirical depiction of the distorted way some Americans view Obama.
    The cover "combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are," a New Yorker statement 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 prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover," said the New Yorker.
    But Obama's camp didn't think the cover was funny, calling it "tasteless and offensive."
    Sen. John McCain said the cover was "totally inappropriate and frankly I understand if Sen. Obama and his supporters would find it offensive."

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    Since when were political cartoons not meant to offend somebody?


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    Quote Originally Posted by rooster470 View Post
    When a satirical cartoon is not understood as satirical by the masses then it just becomes hurtful and of no value. The cartoon is meant to ridicule Obama's critics but instead it serves as twisted information for the ignorant. The New Yorker published it in very poor taste, so my answer is, Fucked Up.
    couldn't have said it better myself! I think it is AWFUL. Esp on the cover, so that everybody walking by a newsstand sees that shit.
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    This is most likely going to have negative effect on his campaign, at least subconsciously. Bah!

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    OK, so I have a good friend that work full time on the Obama campaign ....and I think I'm gonna steal and use this just to ruffle his feathers.

    So ... I shall just thank you now for this, kthxbai.

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    That would be cool! Obama's constant flip-flopping on issues does show that he is an evolving parasite capable of mutating in order to thrive, I'm sure he would be thrilled to know that he has risen from the cellars of being a mild infectious agent to becoming known as "THE OBAMA STRAIN". Once more the cover is obviously satire as if the two Obama's were to combine their "Wonder Terrorist Twins" powers as the picture suggests, the result would a multi-celled virus...an "Ebola-Obama-Rama" virus if you will. The "Ebola-Obama-Rama Strain" virus would cause massive internal hemorrhaging and non-stop blood flow from the wallets and all other orifices of the infected governmental body. NO ONE with a functioning brain would allow this horrible disease to infect America !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy68 View Post
    FYI: he is a Christian. Carry on.

    And Budai: I dont think the majority of the country will get the satire the drawing means. Maybe if the NYer included something that showed McCain with a gun hidden and a halo on his head, people might get it. Ha.

    And yes, I am voting for Obama.

    I know he is.. I'm saying if he stood up and announced it. I probably could have worded that better.

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    Great article from The Onion to lighten everyone's mood!

    http://www.theonion.com/content/news...finitive_obama






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