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The New Yorker drop a clanger.
When thinking about a fresh angle to support your particular choise for leader of the country, it probably not a great idea to portray him as a threat and his wife as a terrorist, satire works on very few people as a rule (Just look at half the posters here they recognise my ironic and satirical posts 1/3rd of the time.)

Not entirely sure what they where thinking but it's generally accepted by now that race and terrorism doesn't really fit into mainstream humoUr of any kind much less a subtle form like satire.

I was slightly worried by the statement that 10% of Americans still think he's a muslim though are that many Americans mindbogglingly stupid?

Only if you accept the idea that the existence of a liberal leaning magazine which has never attempted to be anything else is indicative of a larger "liberal conspiracy".

It's not like they claim to be "fair and balanced" or anything.

My mother in law thinks he's Muslim

I should add that the cover is typical New Yorker anyway.

Most of their covers fall into one of the following categories:

- Silly observational humor about a current cultural trend

- Silly observational humor about big city life

- Absurdist visual throw-away gag

- Political satire

- Pretty picture

Only once in a blue moon do they have a serious cover.

5 to 1 it's their highest selling issue ever.

Obama / Osama - Duh. Far as I am concerned they are blood brothers.

I have to assume Obama's advisers are quietly celebrating the free publicity and expanded chance to get the message out.

On the morning AM shows, they were saying that complainers about the cover were wrong to complain because it was satire, which got them to explain that it was satire because the right-wing character attacks were all overblown and eventually settle into "Look, there's policy complaints you can have but these attacks against his patriotism, religion and associations are idiotic." After all, if they said that the attacks against his character were true, that'd mean the cover wasn't satire and they couldn't ***** about the people who didn't like the cover.

It was great

In the midlands it's "I could eat a scabby 'oss and come back for the jockey"

Speaking of mindbogglingly stupid. What about this cover makes you (or anyone for that matter) think about Americans who believe he's a muslim?


Don't get me wrong. It's a clever cover. But probably not for the reasons you think...

Edited, Jul 15th 2008 4:17pm by gbaji

If it had been anyone else i would have told them to click on the link.

but since it's you i'll just put my money on you clicking the link and then ignoring anything you didn't want to hear.

I'm not a sophisticated urbanite, I'm an urbane sophisticate. But I agree with Samira on this one.

I have to say that if I were Muslim in this country, I'd think the "accusations" of Obama being Muslim being use as fuel against him (effectively with some) really sucks ***. Obama reacts by having to necessarily distance himself from Muslims and people constantly make references to Muslims as not being real Americans. As if the last decade wasn't bad enough-- I've known Middle Easterners with no possible tie to terrorist groups have the FBI show up at their house--there is a daily reminder that God Forbid, anyone with power has any Muslim relatives.

Melting pot my ***.