http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow News You Should Know Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:51:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/politics-party-rrivals-disagree-over-new-yorker-obama-cover/ http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/politics-party-rrivals-disagree-over-new-yorker-obama-cover/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:18:26 +0000 rturner http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/politics-party-rrivals-disagree-over-new-yorker-obama-cover/ But when you get right down to it, there’s really no surprise here
Democrats and Republicans definitely don’t see eye to eye when it comes to the New Yorker magazine cover featuring caricatures of Barack and Michelle Obama. But is that really a surprise? According to The Associated Press, nearly two in three Democrats found the cover, which showed Obama wearing a turban and other traditional Muslim clothes, and his wife, Michelle, wearing camouflage, to be down right wrong. However, about the same percentage of Republicans said they had no problem with the cover. Obama’s campaign has called the illustration “tasteless and offensive.”

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