Now The Left Is Upset By A Cartoon?
Here is what is apparently driving the Left, and Camp Neophyte, bonkers
Eeeeeeevil! Racist! Bigoted! Smear! (Roger W. Gardner covered this yesterday here at Stop The ACLU, too)
(Politico) The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.
An American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it’s satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton 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 Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”
I’m sure Jane “Blackface” Hamsher will see it as satire. What? She doesn’t? Eeeeevil!
Will all those liberals who find the cartoons about Condi Rice by Ted Rall and Pat Oliphant funny and poigniant now call them racist and disown the two cartoonists? Or all the other nasty cartoons, which folks on the left, particularly the Democratic Underground, love? Will they slam them?
Those on the DU are very upset, and may cry.
Ed Morrissey: This makes the third bigoted attack from the Left on Obama. Two weeks ago, it was Ralph Nader acting as the arbiter of black authenticity, and last week it was Jesse Jackson wanting to castrate Obama. One side in this cycle certainly seems obsessed by identity politics, but so far it isn’t the Republicans.
Moonbattery: You would almost think the snooty liberal elitists at the New Yorker have acquired some insight into Obama’s character.
Michelle Malkin tells Obama to grow a pair (his wife carries them in her purse), and has many of the cartoons I have mentioned, plus many unhinged liberal assassination chic.
Tons more at Memeorandum.
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Posted by William Teach on July 14, 2008 8:39 am
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I think they might have gone a bit too far with the picture of Bin Laden above the fireplace, but I think Obama is a little too upset. If he can’t take this during a campaign, what’s going to happen when they start making fun of him constantly like they’ve done with Bush these past eight years?
Wonder when the left is going to riot in the streets, break windows out of coffee shops and burn the town?
This may be well orchastrated plan to place their Messiah completely into victim status. Nader hates everyone but himself. He has had waste material oozing out of his ears for years.
The Jesse Jackson gaff was directed at white liberals to get them to see that Obamanation in a down troddened colored liberal who they (the white liberals) can flock around in guilt to support. Lets face it about 80 – 90% of Black America will vote for Obamanation regardless of what Jackson says or doesn’t say.
New Yorker is again painting Obamanation as a victim. There has been so much speculation about radical and islamic ties throughout the whole campaign process so far. I suspect this is designed to rally the Left and Liberal base and help distract them from Obamanations counter gaffs.
Jonathan Raban in the British paper Guardian Unlimited has a good piece about American Policitics http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/uselections2008.johnmccain?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
[quote]US voters don’t want to hear about Iraq, terrorism and the fallout from 9/11. Instead, they want to talk about identity – race, religion and the glass ceiling. But how long can this holiday last, asks Jonathan Raban [/quote]Yep the cartoon is another way to keep the real issues off balance.