Obama camp: Satirical magazine cover 'tasteless'

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:57 pm

I never thought The New Yorker, of all sources, would stoop this low.

Steve the Pocket · Postby **Steve the Pocket** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:00 pm

See, that image would have been fine if only for the addition of one extra element: The whole thing wrapped up in a speech baloon coming out of a generic pundit looking character. Possibly speaking to a shocked-looking John Q. Public.

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:20 pm

The cover makes perfect sense given the articles inside said cover. But the proportion of people viewing the cover compared to that of people actually reading the articles is skewed towards people not reading the article that says these kinds of rumors are bad with a capital t that rhymes with p that stands for pool.

Mista_B · Postby **Mista_B** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:49 pm

Haha, now *this* is going to be a huge boost to Obama's campaign. I wonder if it was orchestrated by his supporters?

Fritz · Postby **Fritz** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:57 am

I thought it was pretty funny.

GeorgiaCoyote · Postby **GeorgiaCoyote** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:13 pm

I was shocked when I saw it was the New Yorker. But when I started to think about it, it began to make sense. I bet if you look, the New Yorker threw their support behind Hillary Clinton. Apparantly they are still bitter.

Doc Sigma · Postby **Doc Sigma** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:58 pm

LAWL OSAMA BALACK R TEH MUSLIM!!!!!!!!!111

Stay classy, New Yorker, stay classy.

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:48 pm

I learned today that it was supposed to satirize the false idea of Obama as a fanatic Muslim. Obviously, it fell flat as satire.

And John McCain has gained a little respect from me by agreeing that it was in bad taste.

Ibun · Postby **Ibun** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:34 pm

LAWL OSAMA BALACK R TEH MUSLIM!!!!!!!!!111

Stay classy, New Yorker, stay classy.

You and I both know there's nothing classy about New York.

Osideboy · Postby **Osideboy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:28 am

All of these stereotypes of the Obama campaign can be traced to FOX News and Newscorp. The great thing about this whole thing is that people feel bad for Obama because of all the stereotypes and this can only help the Campaign. ^^

rabid_fox · Postby **rabid_fox** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:40 am

I heard it tasted like snozzberries, if you believed hard enough.

Osideboy · Postby **Osideboy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:47 am

I heard it tasted like snozzberries, if you believed hard enough.

Can you stop spamming up serious threads, rabid_fox?

rabid_fox · Postby **rabid_fox** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:49 am

Never!

Mista_B · Postby **Mista_B** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:56 am

I heard it tasted like snozzberries, if you believed hard enough.

Funnily enough, they both give you gas!

Osideboy · Postby **Osideboy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:00 am

Seriously....it's really getting annoying and I don't want to report anybody so could you people stop the spamming???

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