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The
New Yorker magazine has created controversy with
the publication of a cartoon cover that depicts the
Democratic candidate and possible American president
Barack Obama looking like Osama Bin Laden next to
his wife Michelle Obama with a machine strapped to
her back and looking very militant.
 The
cartoon on the cover of the July 21, 2008 edition
of the New Yorker magazine is called "The Politics
of Fear" and drawn by the illustrator Barry Blitt.
One would expect conservative media to publish similar
images, but the New Yorker is considered a liberal
publication.
It is a cartoon and it is meant to be funny, but in
a climate of fear, untruths, and outright lies a lot
of people are not laughing. Damaging rumors have already
been spread in the media about Barack Obama having
Muslim connections, that he is unpatriotic, and that
his wife Michelle is angry and bitter.
One could argue that many readers of the New Yorker
magazine might see the humor in the cartoon which
makes fun of right wing conservative media and the
untruthful caricatures that they have presented Senator
Obama as. But the New Yorker magazine cover will now
be used by conservative media outlets like Fox News
to propel the myths and stereotypes portrayed in the
illustration.
Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton said
"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff
explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon
of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics
have tried to create. But most readers will see it
as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
The editor of the
New Yorker magazine David Remnick said the satirical
cartoon cover "combines a number of fantastical
images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious
distortions they are." The editor also said "The
burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic
outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall -
all of them echo one attack or another. Satire is
part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things
out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd.
And that's the spirit of this cover."
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