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Barack Gets No Love

July 14th, 2008

Barack on New YorkerBarack Obama may have the support of a slew of Black entertainers, including Common, Nick Cannon, John Legend, P. Diddy, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, but what he’s not getting this week is any love from the well-respected New Yorker magazine.

Check out this week’s satirical cover showing a fist-bumping Michelle, toting an Afro and AK-47, and Barack, in Muslim gear, in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama bin Laden on the wall and a burning American flag in the fireplace.

Portraying the Obamas as terrorists is plain wrong!

“Satire is part of what we do,” New Yorker editor David Remnick said in a statement. “And it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover.”

While the Obama camp called the cover “tasteless and offensive”, the senator himself refused to comment. 

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Which Sibling Can Get It?

May 23rd, 2008

John Legend helped lil’ brother Vaughn Anthony celebrate his birthday (along with Grandmaster Flash’s Melle Mel of all people) at The Plumm in NYC yesterday. Never mind that Legend favors the exotic model-type. Which one would you get down with?

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