Obama New Yorker Cover : The Politics of Fear
Monday, July 14th, 2008Barack Obama’s campaign is blasting a New Yorker magazine cover, calling it “tasteless and offensive.”
The cover depicts “President Obama” wearing a Muslim-style outfit known as turban, and his wife Michelle Obama carrying a machine gun, dressed in camouflage and combat boots with a big afro.
The New Yorker says the July 21 cover entitled, “The Politics of Fear” is intended to be satirical.
In a statement from The New Yorker says, “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.”
