Obama New Yorker cover

July 14, 2008 - 10:56am

Obama slams Muslim portrayal on cover of the New Yorker

By Rob Tornoe
Tags: Obama New Yorker cover, New Yorker, Barry Blitt, Barack Obama

Where's the Qur’an?: Barack and Michelle as fist-bumping terrorists on the cover of this week's New Yorker magazine (click to enlarge).Where's the Qur’an?: Barack and Michelle as fist-bumping terrorists on the cover of this week's New Yorker magazine (click to enlarge).The Obama campaign is condemning the “tasteless and offensive” illustration that appears on the cover of the New Yorker magazine this week that depicts U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife, as the American flag burns in the fireplace.

“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," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

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