Spinning the Spin on Barack Obama [1]
Submitted by Anne Landman [2] on
The cover of the upcoming issue of the New Yorker magazine bears a satirical cartoon that incorporates practically every jab [3] the right wing [4] has taken at Barack Obama [5] and his wife Michelle: the couple is pictured standing in the White House Oval Office dressed in Muslim garb. Barack is wearing a turban, Michelle has an "Angela Davis"-type afro hairdo and is shown toting a machine gun. An American flag burns in the fireplace as the couple engages in a "terrorist fist-bump." A portrait of Osama bin Laden [6] hangs over the fireplace. The cover is titled, "The Politics of Fear." Both presidential campaigns quickly condemned [7] the lampooning cover as "tasteless and offensive." Jeffrey Goldberg, a blogger at the Atlantic.com laments [8] the whole situation as "the death of humor."