Immune to Their Attacks
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SMH how white folks got Michelle with the fro and giving Barack a pound. The idiots over at the New Yorker are getting real out of pocket:
The Illinois senator is depicted in traditional Muslim garb in the Barry Blitt illustration set in the Oval Office. His wife, Michelle, is in fatigues, sporting an Angela Davis-style sky-high Afro, an AK-47 slung over her shoulder.
“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,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.
New Yorker editor David Remnick seemed shocked by the backlash. “Our cover … combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are,” he said in a statement. “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,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.
Obama brushed off the brouhaha. “I have no response to that,” he told reporters when asked about the cover, but his supporters are infuriated.
We all know how well versed our man Barack is at brushing off the bullshyte. You can always guarantee that he will show class and strength in the face of this kind of plain foolishness. Barack Obama ‘08 - YES WE CAN!!!
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That’s a dang shame…
This is just ridiculous. I expected more out of an intelligent magazine like the New Yorker. I guess I was wrong.
I heared this news earlier on ” Cas ual se ek . C om “. Many discreet news and discreet videos can be found on it.
BARACK Said he WANTS OUR CHILDREN TO LEARN SPANISH, OR ELSE.
ARE YOU SENDING YOUR CHILDREN TO LEARN SPANISH? IF NOT, THEN YOU’RE NOT A TRUE BARACK SUPPORTER.- YOU’D be JUST A FAKE BARACK SUPPORTER.
So go enroll your children to learn Spanish IMMEDIATELY!!!
Its very unfortunate, but these are the type of things that Obama will have to face throughout his campaign. All of the ridicule will not be in vain, he will be the next President.
Wow….it really is getting worse….these fucking crackers…LOL
Every since Barack has won Iowa so much racism has come out from every angle. Not just white people but even blacks who have an mentality that they don’t think he can be president. I mean look at the Black Republicans.
@ Sniper
Can’t they just watch Dora the Explorer?! “Adios Boots”!
this is silly season…fcuk new york
SMH
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wow I expected better from the New Yoker
Why hasnt this story/edition been pulled?
dat shit ain’t EVEN funny….SMDH
OMG I cant believe they are letting this circulate. I’m with Nikki, WHY hasnt this been pulled? Far less offensive things have been published by the New Yorker and pulled…SMH @ the outlandishness
The artwork is great. I’m not worried about this kind of stuff. The more the racists push, the more right thinking Americans (white and Black) will shake their head and vote Obama on election day. The young people especially are sick of this crap. Sick of their father’s and mother’s hypocrisy. Even the accidental racists (those who swore they were not racists and, by virtue of having grown up in this media racists society, thought Black people complained for no reason) will become ashamed and angered at having been bamboozled and will vote Obama. Change? How about a New World Order…waking up and the President of the United States is Black — and gives a damn.
This just goes to show they are SCARED because they know OBAMA will be the next president. Hateration in rare form here. I dont even know why i’m surprised, the New Yorker is run by the caucasian persuasion
to me it just shows how intimidated folks are of him, i mean where’s mccain’s sattire???
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@ 2cute4u(Check me out!)
Can’t they just watch Dora the Explorer?! “Adios Boots”!
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Hahaha. Somebody shoulda asked Barack that during his Speech when he said everyone needs to make their children learn Spanish.
It just goes to show just how racist this country still is. Oh well, they better get use to Obama cause he WILL be the next president. Yes we can!
@ Whats the World Coming To? (SMH @ racism in 08, GET OUT DA DARK AGES!)
Actually, I’m a little scared if Obama becomes President - I’ll have to learn Spanish, because he demands it.
Crustbetweenmytoes….
Ummm this is NOT ‘great artwork’. When I think of great Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Picasso….those names come to mind. This was clearly sketched by some redneck chewing a straw while batting flies away from their Milwaukee’s Best….oh after having sex with their niece.
SMH this is so sad. It just makes him stronger in the end though.
This is VERY distasteful and I see ABSOLUTELY NO humor in this whatsoever…
These “so called” educated people and the “editor” know better…
SOME white people are inherently racist and this is a prime example of that fact…
I understand that “controversy sells” but they crossed the line with this one…
What they so affectionately refer to as the “fist bump” is something they’ll (white people) ALL be doing sometime soon down the road in the near future, just like all of the other things that we (Black people) do FIRST that they make fun of initially and be like “why do they do that?”, but then they end up doing it later…
WOW this is crazy, but i think its ironic that they drew a pic of the main thing that let black people know that the Obama’s were down and made it into a negative thing. *fist pound forever!*
The New Yorker should be ashamed of themselves - they knew exactly what they were doing when they created that cover. How come they haven’t done the same to McCain if it was supposed to be so innocent. This just goes to show people that the white people are scared of Barack, they are scared to see a black man in the White House, well I say it’s about time.
Oh, i guess I’m cool cuz I speak Spanish @ sniper..LOL
dang! and these are his friends! black people please stop with this barack will be the next president nonsense. if white liberals feel this way about him, just imagine how the other white folk feel about him.
he’s going to lose and you should understand that!
MORNING DARLING NIKKI ,HOW WAS YOUR WEEKND?
I work with an office full of white people and its SO FUNNY how they get quiet when I or my coworker walk in the room when they are talkin about something political because we are always laughing about how scared they are to make comments. SMH….I’m actually scared for OBAMA and fam, cuz its so many scared white people out here, and they are certainly threatened by them…*prays for no sniperish ish*
this is truly tasteless on so many levels…there is nothing satirical about this …they are trying to depict the Obamas as terrorists….the burning of the flag….the wearing of fatigues….horrible….
@ STOP TRIPPIN….do you really think he will lose?
PREPARE FOR MORE SHIT LIKE THIS…..AND OBAMA IZ GONNA NEED YOUR SUPPORT MORE THAN EVER SO GET READY! HA! THEY EVEN USED THE DAP! WELL ATLEAST THEY HAVE THE SISTA ROCKING THE FRO…..THEY IF THEY GAVE HER A NAPPY DO, YOU SISTAZ AND BYTCHES WOULDA WENT STUPID AT THAT THAT FUKKING MAG ! RIGHT?
Thank you Kitty
since they are erring on the side of insensitive why not show McCain’s wife with a big bottle of liquor falling on the floor and show him changing excerpts in his fact based book when as he sees fit….ridiculous
Bossip why ya’ll nuccas can never show me love when I send you tips
Ya’ll are slow on the politics game, you best be happy I sent this to ya’ll early this morning
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NIKKI UNDERWOOD (It’s ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic) wrote, “Why hasnt this story/edition been pulled?”
The New Yorker is claiming that they’re only satirizing all the negative views about Obama and Michelle with that cover.
I don’t buy it. I hope other people don’t buy that. Unfortunately, some people are. You can tell who’s a snob by who’s running the ‘you just don’t get it’ nose in the air mess. There is a legitimate way to argue for the cover, by the way, that isn’t fake-intellectual.
It just isn’t to the Obama’s benefit. The New Yorker needs an ass-whupping on this one.
Is this not blatant bigotry on the behalf of Barry Blitt and the staff at the New Yorker? I think that Barack did what any Black man in his position should do and that is be better, by dismissing this sans comment. Anytime you are Black and want something in this imperialistic world, you have to be better. On the View, Rosie O’ Donnell mocked how Chinese people spoke with “ching chong ching chong” and was blasted for it. To me, the New Yorker staff is Rosie the bully. Clearly, depicting Obama’s supposed relation to Bin Laden, which is a clear stereotype. And no matter how much the Obama’s assimilate, the supremacists are still there wanting company.Black people let us raise our own children without the dependence upon some school or teacher and by that, they will know the importance of education and true-history. Shit, sooner or later, the face of Kemet(Ancient Egypt) will be white with blue eyes. We are constantly at war with supremacist and will be~
Very disappointed with the New Yorker.
they usually display class and political neutrality.
Won’t be buying their mags anytime soon…
glok9n….
Oh my Dear it was GRAND…and yours?
Nita….
Yup yup…
The thing to remember is this, once you are a politician ridicule is a part of the job. McCain gets ridiculed. Why not Obama? It’s all the same to me. If the politician truly wants to be in office and do a great job, then they will just ignore the media as other potential candidates have before and just do their job. No one can break anyone else if they truly know what they want.
furthermore, has anyone noticed the depreciation in Michelle Obama’s face? It’s like he said I want to draw her without any of her natural beauty- what a bunch of fat, unhappy, sorry, unoriginal, “the Bubonic Plague ran rampant throughout Europe for hundreds of years and still does-and because of it we have a morbid culture”- pieces of shit…
WOW!! Totally uncalled for! get a life new yoker
trash.
this just furthers my confirmation that I WILL vote Obama come November!!
Nice Try folks!
@$m♥K.E.Y.
I sent this info. to them last night…
I am equally offended at the image of Mrs. Obama
They got her looking like a militant slave leader. Very offensive and ignorant.
I can imagine that Barack is doing the best job possible.
He got folks so scared, they cant even sleep at night so they make up tasteless crap such as this.
Thumbs down
This is sad. It really, really is. They knew exactly what they were doing and what image they were trying to put out there. Isn’t the New Yorker and lots of papers like this run my right-winged Republicans. I mean seriously, media and media outlets need to really stay neutral but since money and politics are involved it will never be. This is a sad.
wow @ smokey
JUDITH said:The thing to remember is this, once you are a politician ridicule is a part of the job. McCain gets ridiculed. Why not Obama?
@ Judith, You’re right about all politicians face ridicule, but you’re wrong to think that they would ever associate any white American candidates as Hitler, Himler, Nero, Napoleon, etc.
It is one thing to poke fun, but when it crosses the line-such as Barack being portrayed as a monkey or a fugitive- that’s a bit leftist(radical).
Haters come in all sorts of disguises!
OBAMA 08 YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@NIKKI U! MINEZ WAZ KOSHER! LOTTA BBQ INVASIONS WE GOT HIGH AS FUK AND WENT TARGETING BBQz!
I’m going to have to agree with Judith on this one. It’s part of the game. I see nothing wrong with this photo and can clearly see the satire. Do any of you read political cartoons on a regular basis? If you do then you will immediately see the political cartoon humour.
I see a cartoon depicting all of the racial and negative undertones the media has thrust upon the Obama campaign. I do not see this as a representation of obama nor his wife.
You guys really need to take a chill pill and read up on the idea of satire and metaphors. Anyone with a 7th grade education can see so.
I’ve seen John McCain and Hillary clinton satire
I got news for you the white Liberal media and their butt buddy Black Liberals, we all know who they are, have been pulling tricks like this for years. Anybody who trust a Liberal is a fool, but at least the conservatives are upfront about it. The New Yorker as well as The New York Times have been mad every since their candidate Hillary lost, so this mess doesn’t shock me in the least. But just you wait, cause it is gonna get even uglier than this the closer we get to the election.
This shit really pisses me off!!
But come to think of it all obamas supporters are going to have learn how to deal with ignorant insulting shit like that once he wins the White House. YESSSSSSSSSSSS WE CAN !!!!!!
Obama 08′
Register to vote now!!
as well, even more exaggerated as this..this is a caricature drawing. Be more outraged that next year pookie and peaches will be getting a subpar education.
glok9n…..
Tickled pink @ ‘LOTTA BBQ INVASIONS’…..
I bet Hillary was behind this. NY was her playground…
Satirique cartoons is the price to any presidency. I promise all of you that Obama wont be an exception to that rule. SUCK IT UP PEOPLE!!!
Good morning everyone!
This is absolutely ridiculous! I expected more from New Yorker. Like Mr. Obama, this will just drive me even harder to make sure he is elected! YES WE CAN!
@IM JUST ME! HEY GORGEOUS! WHAT YOU MEAN THE LIGHT SKIN BROTHA IZ STILL AINT MAKE A COME BACK YET? DOES THAT MEAN WE “CHOCO” BROTHAZ SMASHING THAT THING RIGHT? LOL!….IM HIGH SIS!
LADY K MORNING P.Y.T !
Fell out of my chair when I saw this cover.
I thought it was a joke at first.. but they are really circulating this shyt!?!?!?!
That is blaten rascism if I’ve ever seen it on a major paper too…
I guess some things never change….
I pray Obama and his family will be able to see the next 4yrs in office.,..because by the looks of it.. these fools don’t even what to see the day when he is sworn into office.
@ SMOKEY!GURL WHERE YOU BEEN WITH YOUR SEXY AZZ BELLY!
SMDH….
This is foolishness….
It is not art. Proportion is wrong, olor is fucked up and bland, the lines arent even with any grace or vision, it’s trash.
Well now you know how ignorant and foolish the New Yorker is…
I’m glad that all these wolves are taking off their sheep clothing.
P.s. I wish I did know Spanish!!!
please google Condi Rice political cartoons. if you are outraged at this, then you should be equally outraged by these.
keep on crying wolf because no one hears you anymore. On the eve of this country electing its first bi-racial president, we still get bothered by something as small as this.
grow up guys, the world is more than just black and white.
i don’t think that hilary is behind this, and I am really offended at this bullshit! Y does Michelle have to have this fro and that other bullshit? HAS anyone ever seen Michelle rocking this bullshit? Has anyone ever seen Obama dressed like this?
This shit isn’t over by a long shot..When they win..U will see more racist sh*t! I wish that racist would just kill themselves
OBAMA ACT LIKE A PUSSY CLOT!
do you know any white people who are voting for obama? i know only one! white people get quiet when someone mentions obama or they say that he’s inexperience so they are not voting for him. these are whites who social with black folks so they are liberals. black people cannot elect a president! we are only 11% of the population. if white liberals are not supporting obama, he’s toast. this cover just feeds these conspiracy theories about the obama. they knew that it would hurt obama!
I don’t recall Bill Clinton nor McCain’s wife being “satired”
so what is really the reason behind this? we all know…
BG:
It’s a caricature–you know, you can get one of yourself at the state fair. That is why it is so exaggerated. Please, this is not racist at all–it’s just a symbol of how the right views obama’s campaign.
Damn, sh*t is just plain distasteful. The burning flag, muslim attire. America is a mutha-fuc*in BEAST, cottdamn!
McCain’s an old fool,
You are so right. Let’s see if they satire the McCains.
SMH @ the whites and uncle tom’s on this site right now telling everyone to “get over it”
Mr. Obama is being satired. fine!!
But what does Mrs. Obama have to do with anything? She is NOT running for presidency or any office!! she has nothing to do with nothing. Just a supporting wife.
Where are the satires of Bill Clinton when Hillary was running? Or the photos of McCain’s wife?
Please stop the Bullshyte and go spew your garbage on T.M.Z
WOOOOW!! Like Flava Flav says it, wooooow!! Like I said the world will shake and the ground will rumble, and all the former slave owners and bigots that founded this country will be shaking their demonic graves!! YES WE CAN ‘08!
HEZ GONNA NEED BLK&LATINO PPL MORE THAN EVER AND LATINO AND SOME WHITES! THIS SHIT IZ GONNA START A RACE RIOT, I CAN FEEL IT! WHITE PPL YOU TEASE YOUR FOLKS WITH ALL THAT CARTOOON SHIT. WE BLK PPL DONT PLAY THAT SHIT!THATZ LIKE A YOUR MOMMA JOKE TO US!
SHEZ GONNA BE THE BUTT OF ALL JOKES TO COME, MRZ OBAMA, YOU WATCH!
THE FUKKING CLINTONZ AINT DONE WITH THIS ELECTION….BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THEY USED “JESSE UNDER THE TABLE JAXSON” TO CREATE A ATMOSPHERE! WHAT WAS HE DOING ON “O’REILLY” ANY WAY? ,TOLD YALL KICK THESE OL SKOOL NIGGRZ TO THE REAR!
I think that some white folks are getting so scared of the possibility of Obama leading the country that they are getting beyond desperate. Sure they can say that it’s an obvious satire, but we know that they are thousands of, ummm, not so educated or enlightened Americans out there who STILL want to believe that Obama is Muslim…which to some also translates into “terrorist”. And the depiction of Michelle as a militant sistah just serves to perpetuate the stereotype/link to terrorism. If they simply had to do this, why not a small cartoon inside the mag…but the friggin’ cover, c’mon?!?!
This is despicable and there is absolutely NO justification for this gross, irresponsible caricature!!
Slide Like A Fresh Pair of Gators (fka Keepin’ It Real - D’Original)
Damn you!!!!! lol
I wanted to send it last night but I was too lazy,
especially after the late night excercises…..
golkn9
HI!!!!!!!
dubya…you are a simpleton!! Thanks for the definition of what a caricature is…wow, who knew? *sarcasm* This is more than just a caricature, this is another “subtle” attempt by media to perpetuate a lie. Yeah, most people by now know that he is NOT muslim, but do you know who many ignorant people will see that cover and believe that it’s fact and that it somehow corroborates what they’ve been thinking all along?!?!
I think its funny that conservative dont realize the cover is making fun of them and their gullibility as to the ridiculous rumors about Obama
Suga Walls, NIKKI UNDERWOOD, IM JUST ME, LAUREN
MORNING!
damn, what happens to my grammar when i’m blogging. i’m a college graduate but damn, i can’t think and type at the same time…
Morning all….
And I thought my coffee was bitter this morning…. This picture took the cake! This is so distasteful and absurd. They are taking shots at him like he’s George Bush!
MORNING SMOKEY!
I expect nothing less. They have rediculed blacks for years and just when you think they couldnt stoop any lower. They prove us wrong. They dont want anyone to believe that a positive black couple exists. They want the world to see us as animals and unintelligent. They cant touch Obama and his family with a ten foot pole so they do this. It only shows who has the real stupidity. The U.S is the most hated country in this world because of its hipocrisy. It claims to care about others in the world and hates its own citizens. A lot in White America stills wishes slavery still existed and they could hang us from trees. They crack their little jokes and get checked. Not gonna happen. It is offensive and racist. Somebody drew this before they went to their Klan meeting and had a good laugh with the other bigots. America maybe a melting pot but it will always be racists cause racism is handing down from generation to generation.
I feel sorry for Obama, man didn’t realize what he was getting himself into when he declared his run for the White House. Didn’t realize he would have to go up against the racist Liberals, the NAACP House Negroes, the Conservatives, the self-crowned, pimping preachers Jackson & Sharpton. And now he has to go and address that ex-coke head Julian Bond and all the rest of those ignorant, living in the 1960’s House Negroe Hillary supporters at the NAACP. Obama shouldn’t go because he doesn’t need the endorsement of any of those fools who still living in the past and can’t stand that the world has passed them by with their old outdated way of thinking .
in the infamous words of Jay Z…..”brush your shoulders off”.
LIBERALS ARE SO OF THE WORST RACISTS YOU WILL EVER MEET IT’S JUST THAT THEY HIDE IT BETTER, LAUGH IN YOUR FACE WHILE THEY STAB YOU IN THE BACK!
@just sit:
You can call me whatever you please. I just happen to look at all sides of the story before I go conjuring up conspiracy theories.
I think we are making mountain out of a mole hill. All presidential candidates and winners have been ridiculed in this fashion, so where is the outrage then.
I see it as a metaphor as to how the right wants to depict Obama’s campaign–loud, angry, militant wife, Muslim candidate, him hating america….
Perhaps you are the simpleton, perhaps the whole african american race is. I don’t know, the jury is still out. I, however, in the meantime, will continue to analyze a situation in as many facets as possible and then draw a conclusion.
You do you and keep yourself confused and angry at an enemy that lives within.
$m♥K.E.Y…..
Good one to ya!!
@ dubya…
either you are white and should be on another site, or are Black and just simply trying to outrage the people who post on this site….of course when you are in the public eye, you are going to be ridiculed and especially if you are running for President…my concern is not so much that a caricature was done as much as the message that it is sending….this wasn’t some cartoon distortion of the Obamas, this to me is racist and to add insult to injury the American flag is burning in the fireplace…what’s up with that? ….like I said earlier where are the Caricatures of Mrs. McCain and her liquor bottle since she had a drinking issue….where are the caricatures of McCain as a headcase since he was a POW….see it’s not so funny when the shoe is on other foot….the New Yorker hit waaaaay below the belt….
This will only backfire for The New Yorker, as they watch Obama get elected in November.
Typical white liberals trynna act “down” and end up offending blacks. Don’t these people understand that middle white America isn’t smart enough to decipher this. They don’t know what “satire” is. They just see Obama as a terrorist. Just what Faux news is doing. If it isnt black ppl holding Obama back, its liberal whites with no clue. He really can’t catch a break huh?
The right-winged media and the left-winged media both bash Obama. The Liberals underneath have always been secret racist and they don’t approve of a Black man that they cannot control, the way they controlled Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Obama is an intellectual who understands how the world works, while the preachers do nothing but scream about racism(Which is a part of life that will never go away). Obama talks about global economics and self-help for us and that scares the secret racist liberals. The Liberals want us to stay poor and ignorant about the world, so that they can continue to control us with their emotional arguments and appeals, when every thinking Black person (the emphasis is on THINKING) don’t give a rat’s ass about whether someone likes them or not. The thinking Black man and woman in America cares about higher education and economics and what it will take for us to reach the top. It sure ain’t about marching and slogans and hollering racism every five minutes. I have four children, three already in university, the youngest one graduating next year and on her way to Columbia. Two are in Pre-Med, one is in Engineering, my youngest is undecided between medicine and Computer Science. And my husband and I have taught them that is your family and friends love you, why give a damn about the feelings of some racists idiot you don’t even know. That old-styled, N.A.A.C.P, brand of thinking is over for today’s thinking, Black American. I love all of you and remember to get your education.
More propaganda. Im not suprised.
This is all part of the game, while I would love to see a election where it doesn’t just seem like a personality/Mr. America campaign, this is all part of the game. I mean how can one not be surprise that they would go the Muslim route and the ‘radical’ image. If anything I believe this will help Obama because this been going on on the low for the longest with the e-mail that many GOP groups been sending out. So if Obama is smart he shouldn’t run away from this he should use it & flip on the critics cause if he doesn’t address directly the GOP spin doctors will have a field day with this.
Cali Slice, of course they know it, that’s why they do it. Like somebody stated above, anybody who trusts a Liberal is a fool. No bigger back stabbing Judas on earth than a Liberal. They still mad Hillary didn’t win.
I’m black but apparently being open minded and rational is a trait I should not have. It really bothers me that on the eve of our nation possibly electing our first black president, we still can’t be open minded and fair in our assessment of our country, community, and household. We are selectively and destructively biased in our approach thus we still fail to make any significant moves. Where was the outrage over similar and more offensive Condi Rice cartoons?
We get outraged when it fits our agenda and that kind of passion never brings about growth and change.
How many of you read the New Yorker? How many of you read the actual article on Obama in the magazine?
I’m really not trying to rock the boat. I am stating my opinion. You see racism, I see political humor. I don’t see this cartoon representing Obama at all. I see it representing what others see in him.
My mom used to say to me, we run around looking for the enemy only to find that he lives within.
@Madmax-2099
You are right. Just like the Jesse Jackson comments will help Obama. This picture will help also. Its helping to lock in the undecided white voters.
I just want to put it out there in Baltimore city. That now in the Koren hair stores that they are selling Obama and Dr.King tee shirts. People please stop buying these shirts. In no why does this support any cause but to line there pockets.Thank You
Whats wrong with you people? Can’t you see a quality piece of satire when its rubbed in your sick poisoned faces?