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Their McCain cover must really be a doozy The New Yorker is drawing fire, and big-time media play, for this week's cover, showing Barack Obama in Muslim headgear fist-bumping his wife Michelle in the Oval Office. The latter totes a gun and has a ’fro straight out of Coffy or Foxy Brown. Oh, an American flag burns in the fireplace and Osama bin Laden’s portrait hangs on the wall. The magazine says it was aiming for broad satire, but both the Obama and John McCain camps have complained. The latter probably envisioned himself making the cover, bedecked with medals, pushing the button to start World War III while making love to his wife Cindy (made up to look like Jill St. John in her swingin’-60s heyday). Maybe The Atlantic can do the honors. —Posted by David Gianatasio

July 14, 2008 in Gianatasio | Permalink

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Thanks New Yorker, that was a big help.

Posted by: Chris | Jul 14, 2008 4:25:22 PM

Great cover

Posted by: | Jul 14, 2008 5:53:25 PM

idiots

Posted by: oy | Jul 14, 2008 6:43:06 PM

Uh oh, there goes his votes! Please. Anyone taking this cartoon seriously should take a chill pill.

Posted by: Somebody | Jul 15, 2008 11:07:18 AM

Uh oh, there goes his votes! Please. Anyone taking this cartoon seriously should take a chill pill.

Posted by: Somebody | Jul 15, 2008 11:07:31 AM

political satire... thats pretty normal in the rest of the "free world". Where are we going to end... everything has to be rosy, pink, non offensive, and just plain boring. Just remember when you are walking down the street and somebody trips and falls...thats funny, unfortunate but funny, when they stumble its not even memorable, and that is just reality.

Posted by: somebody else | Jul 15, 2008 12:32:50 PM

LOL to the above. I thought Barack was one of those smart book guys who understands satire. Apparently not.

Posted by: Emo Williams | Jul 15, 2008 1:04:24 PM

LOL to the above. I thought Barack was one of those smart book guys who understands satire. Apparently not.

Posted by: Emo Williams | Jul 15, 2008 1:04:26 PM

my problem is that it's a lousy new yorker cover. by all means do political satire, just make it funny. it's not funny.

Posted by: no yorker | Jul 15, 2008 3:12:27 PM

He gets satire, as does most educated Americans. I don't think those are the people he is concerned with seeing this.

Posted by: Chris | Jul 15, 2008 3:14:00 PM

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