Obama slams Muslim portrayal
The Bear on Jul 14 2008 at 2:55 am | Filed under: Election 08’
The magazine says the cover art, featuring Barack Obama and his AK-47-toting wife in terrorist garb in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama bin Laden above the mantel and an American flag burning in the fireplace, “satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.” But the Obama campaign is denouncing the cover, saying The New Yorker’s editors might believe the picture is “a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” but it is fact “tasteless and offensive.”
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