Barack Gets No Love
July 14th, 2008
Barack 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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