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The New Yorker Obama Cover
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Posted 4 months ago I was browsing the online news articles and came across this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25673296/?GT1=43001 Its about the New Yorker cover that has Senator Obama dressed as a typical male muslum, his wife dressed as a terrorist and a picture of Osama hanging over the fireplace in the oval office. Obviously this illustration has caused quite an uproar, the main sentiment being that it's insensitive. Even Senator McCain says its bad. Yet the New Yorker defends its cover saying they have always been about satyrical imagery, that "Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd" Personally I think the cover is in poor taste, however as an artist I think it succeeds in confronting the fear some people have when they see or hear of Barrak Obama. Im curious what some of you think. Is this cover in poor taste, or a take on what some people think about when they hear the name "Obama" |
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| Posted 3 months ago The cartoonist is too arrogant to admit he made an error and the magazine backs him because the same error was made by their editors. What error? The cartoon was meant to satirize distortions of who Barak Obama is - but by presenting an image of the distortions realized baldly, it invite other interpretations (perhaps it satirizes Baraks denial of 'what we all know to be the truth?'). Alternatively the cartoon could have juxtaposed a very Christian American Obama watching aghast at the image that is the existing cartoon - being presented on FOX news as a 'special report'. I Don't know it would be funnier, but the scope of interpretation is at least narrow, specific and innofensive to the candidate (if not FoxNews). |