Spinning the Spin on Barack Obama
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Spinning the Spin on Barack Obama [1]

Submitted by Anne Landman [2] on

Obama New YorkerThe 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."

Main Source: 
The Boston Globe (Boston.com), July 14, 2008 [9]
Topics: 
Left Wing [10]
Right Wing [11]
Crisis Management [12]
Journalism [13]
Election 2008 [14]
Terrorism [15]
Democracy [16]
Education [17]
Ethics [18]
Politics [19]
Public Relations [20]
Race / Ethnic Issues [21]
Religion [22]

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[2] https://www.prwatch.org/users/5684/anne-landman
[3] http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
[4] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/right_wing
[5] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barack_Obama
[6] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Osama_bin_Laden
[7] http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVwEDDjom_4jut79Rwt0BGaKv92w
[8] http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/obama_the_new_yorker_and_the_d.php
[9] http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/07/new_yorker_cove.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed4
[10] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/politics/left-wing
[11] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/politics/right-wing
[12] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/crisis-management
[13] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/media/journalism
[14] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/us-government/election-2008
[15] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[16] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[17] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/education
[18] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/ethics
[19] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/politics
[20] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations
[21] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/race-ethnic-issues
[22] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/religion