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July 14, 2008 | 12:01 pm

Obama the Muslim, Michelle the revolutionary and bin Laden in the White House *

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Doesn’t the New Yorker, that bastion of conservatism, know that politicians are delicate flowers?

If you’ve seen this week’s cover, you know it’s a satirical piece—they often are when concerning politics—and it has the Barack Obama campaign team ticked. Pictured at left, it “depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing wife Michelle in camo clothes with an AK-47 and ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a portrait of Osama bin-Laden while the American flag burns in the fireplace—in the presidential Oval Office. It’s got everything incendiary except a vest bomb. Which is what should telegraph to most people that it’s way over-the-top and, therefore, satire.”

But, as the Top of the Ticket blog goes on to note, “politicians don’t like satire because it’s subject to differing interpretations.”

The cover quickly became fodder for political pundits and media talking heads. I think the cover is funny and its subject fair game, not to mention positively portrayed inside the magazine.

The joke says more about an American absurdity than Barack Obama. And the people most bothered by this joke probably don’t work for him, but are typical Muslim Americans.

(For those wondering why Obama is so sensitive about being portrayed as Muslim, here is a primer.)

*Updated: Opinion L.A. has a round-up of what some notable bloggers and New Yorker editor David Remnick are saying.

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More important perhaps than the way we play with ourselves is the way the realplayers see things.

In April 08, Obama received this endorsement:
“During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.

“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef said in response to a question about the group’s willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential candidates.

When told of Obamas condemnation of Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas, he responded, Hamas . . . uderstands American politics; this is the election season, and everyone wants to sound like a friend of Israel. Nevertheless, he hopes that the Democrats will change American policies when they take office.

Interview here http://cameronscorner.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/aaron_klein_4113081.mp3

Yes, yes, I know Hamas ‘unendorsed’ him after the obligatory AIPAC speech in a ‘Wright-ian’ maneuver but they did not sound very upset, just stated that they now did not support either candidate to win.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/14/08 at 5:27 pm

While the average, intelligent individual WOULD know that this caricature is meant to be satirical, there are a concerning percentage of Americans who just do NOT get it. I read many comments to articles on this NewYorker cover that lauded the cover as an accurate portrayal of Obama’s background, religion, and lack of patriotism. These are probably the same 12% of uninformed Americans who believe Barack Obama is a Muslim!

Comment by Lori on 7/15/08 at 9:12 am

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