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July 21, 2008
Take THAT! New Yorker
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Go team Obama! I’m loving the fact that the Senator and his team have decided to DIS The New Yorker Magazine for a spot on his press plane while he tours the Middle East and beyond…
That’s right. The Senator has declared that there will be no bad satire in the bubble!
After talking with a friend who suggested that Obama was somewhat of a patsy this past weekend, I walked away from the conversation feeling not as convinced as I had been that team Obama possessed the balls to stand up and fight some the sickening press that has transpired, particularly regarding his family. My friend had argued that if Obama lacked the back-bone to at least allow himself to get angry about some of THESE hateful “news” items, then what might we expect from him in the future? The embers of the little flame of hope in my heart have been re-ignited—albeit barely.
But leave it to the Blogarati to say completely dumb things like the one over at the Huffington Post who said, “Retribution for unfavourable coverage is a chilling thing to contemplate.” Oh please. I suppose the Senator should just bend over and bring his own vaseline too? Maybe he and his wife should invite the “artist” who stereotypically depicted a picture of his penis over to their home to BBQ too? (Supposedly, it was an attempt to underscore the myth of the black male’s genital prowess; It was eventually shut down by the CIA. Who even talks about that anymore?)
But with only 40 press passes allotted on the entire airplane, why on earth would The New Yorker get a seat in the first place? I can think of 50 other more credible, more editorially sound media that should fly with our next president.
New Yorker’s plane snub over Obama ‘terrorist’ cartoon
by Matthew Weaver (www.guardian.co.uk)
Monday July 21, 2008 - The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent has been denied a press place on Barack Obama’s tour of the Middle East and Europe after the magazine depicted the presidential candidate as a terrorist on its cover.
The Obama camp said there was not enough room on the aircraft but the move is being seen as a snub to the magazine.
Obama’s aides were angered last week by the cartoon, which showed the presidential candidate and his wife, Michelle, in a “terrorist” fist-bumping gesture. The magazine said it was intended as a satire of right-wing rumours against Obama.
“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” the Obama team said. “But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”
Obama later brushed off the cartoon, used to illustrate an investigation into his political rise in Chicago, as a poor satire.
The article’s author, Ryan Lizza, would have expected to secure one of the 40 press places on Obama’s tour this week but was told no space was available.
Writing on the Huffington Post, media blogger Rachel Sklar said: “So it’s gonna be like that, is it? Retribution for unfavourable coverage is a chilling thing to contemplate.”
Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and Hillary Clinton supporter, accused the Obama campaign of “engaging in a nasty little act of getting even”.
Journalist Ryan Tate, blogging on Gawker, said: “It’s hard to see the snub as anything other than payback. His people had to know what signal it would send to exclude the magazine so soon after the cover flap.”
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