'Scare tactic' — Obama slams Muslim portrayal

When Conservatives speak of that mythical beast, the Liberal media, I wonder how many of them could even imagine John McCain being insulted in the way in which Obama is insulted in this disgusting front page.

Note the Hizbullah wife, the burning flag in the fireplace, the picture of Osama on the wall.

The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.

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."

It may very well be satire but, far more importantly, it puts an image of Obama into people's minds in a country where some one in ten citizens, despite the Reverend Wright scandal, still labour under the misconception that he is a Muslim.

When such a large number of your citizens are so spectacularly misinformed, an image like this will only reinforce their ignorance.

The McCain camp have been swift to condemn this. Why wouldn't they? It costs them nothing.

But I'm sure they're smart enough to know that shit like this helps them in the long run.

Obama's response is reported as being "incredulous":

At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to a transcript by Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: “The upcoming issue of the New Yorker, the July 21st issue, has a picture of you, depicting you and your wife on the cover.

“Have you seen it? If not, I can show it to you on my computer. It shows your wife Michelle with an Afro and an AK 47 and the two of you doing the fist bump with you in a sort of turban-type thing on top. I wondered if you’ve seen it or if you want to see it or if you have a response to it?”

Obama, shrugging incredulously: “I have no response to that.”

I know how he feels. But let's stop the ridiculous lie that the US are being served by a "liberal" media. A cursory glance at the way they fawn over John McCain should be enough to disprove that pile of crock.

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Tags: Barack Obama, New Yorker magazine, terrorist sympathiser, propaganda, McCain, US election 2008