Satire? Did the cover work. Barrack Obama cartoon on The New Yorker
The cover of The New Yorker magazine shows presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist. (AP photo / July 14, 2008)
There has been much discussion on the latest issue cover of the prestigious publication, The New Yorker picturing Barrack Obama - dressed in Muslim clothing, his wife Michelle with a machine gun on her back, with a picture of Osama Bin Laden on the wall and an American Flag burning in the fireplace. Personally I don’t think it worked. What do you think?
- Chuva Chienes.
“The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall? All of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover,” a New Yorker spokesman said in a written statement.
What do you think? Did the satire work? Many people didn’t think so.
