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Public split on New Yorker cover

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor July 24, 2008 05:14 PM
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The July 21, 2008 New Yorker cover

Americans are divided about the infamous New Yorker cover satirizing attacks on Barack Obama, says a new poll out today.

And, not surprisingly, fellow Democrats are as dismayed as Obama, while Republicans thought it was OK, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center.

Half those surveyed said they had seen the cover, which depicted Obama in Muslim garb fist-bumping his wife Michelle while an American flag burned in the fireplace with a portrait of Osama bin Laden above it.

Among Democrats, 31 percent said it was OK for the magazine to publish it, while 64 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of independents were fine with it. Seventy percent of Democrats, but only 41 percent of Republicans said the cover was offensive.

11 comments so far...
  1. Oh woe is me!! They've outed the Obama's!! He really IS a Muslim and she really IS Angela Davis' secret daughter!!

    How DARE the leftist & elitist New Yorker magazine out the Hussein Obama's!! Don't they have any ounce of loyalty to the all-knowing, "I'm never wrong" messiah? They need to be kissing and washing his feet like the rest of mainstream media and not telling the truth about Him.

    Now EVERYONE knows the Obama's will be burning the American flag and hanging up their Cousin Osama's picture all over the Oval Office!!!

    This is so HORRIBLE!!

    This is so OFFENSIVE!!

    This is so WRONG!!

    This is an OFFENSE to every single American!!

    (and for anyone who is "offended" by this then ya'll are a bunch of MAROONS!!!)

    Posted by Karl Marx, Democratic VP candidate July 24, 08 05:47 PM
  1. The picture seems so real for Obama has not shown the real person He is. Like all to many of the Far Left truth can not be found near them. The Democratic Party has become true Big Government copy from history past called , The Italian Facist Party . Thus government will take care of all our needs, These same folks always have things to hide.... God help America...

    Posted by Charles Camereon July 24, 08 07:39 PM
  1. I LOVED YOUR SATIRE. IT TELLS A STORY ABOUT OBAMA THAT NO ONE ELSE WILL TELL. HE RUNS AROUND THE WORLD ACTING LIKE THE PRESIDENT OF THE US. HE WILL SAY AND DO ANYTHING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION - ALMOST LIKE TALKING TO CHILDREN. THE REASON HE HAD SUCH A TURN OUT IN GERMANY BECAUSE HALF THEIR POPULATION ARE MUSLIMS. THE MUSLIMS LOVE HIM! YET OUR SOLDIERS ARE BEING KILLED BY MUSLIM TERRORIST "JUST ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE FOR AMERICA".
    GOOD WORK NEW YORKER.

    Posted by ELIZABETH ROSATI July 24, 08 11:14 PM
  1. Humanity exist on different levels. This Moron is stuck in the stone age. This is what you get when one is uneducated! They need crap like this to stimulate their brains!

    Posted by amandel July 25, 08 02:07 AM
  1. Don't you see how important an education is?
    I think a lot of people should go get one and find out what "satire" means. Then maybe they won't be so "offended" or what have you.

    And the funniest thing? The funniest thing to me is thinking about those Republicans thinking: "I don't see what the big deal is! I already knew he was a Muslim terrorist trying to infiltrate the White House."

    Posted by Jin July 25, 08 12:43 PM
  1. I'm going to agree with Jin.

    The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    -Winston Churchill

    Posted by Tbrown July 25, 08 03:47 PM
  1. Say what you will...It is offensive. TRUTH is, no matter what you say.

    Posted by owlafaye July 25, 08 04:54 PM
  1. You've misinterpreted the SATIRE

    Posted by Tbrown July 25, 08 06:17 PM
  1. If the truth is horrible , offensive and wrong then then the satire hit the nail on the head...It is true and he is a Muslim brother.

    Posted by Ashad Rashad July 26, 08 11:15 AM
  1. You are racists, and the man is not Muslim and even if he was that isn't a basis to think that he is a bad person or a terrorist. And for you idiots who believe that this wasn't meant to be offensive because of the use of the word satire, here is a definition of the word from Wikipedia: "Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves,..." I find it very funny that you all think that your so educated and half of you can't spell or know how to use a dictionary.

    Posted by N. Bryant July 26, 08 07:51 PM
  1. LOL. People like Elizabeth (#3) are the reason why this cover was a rotten idea.

    She has NO idea that she doesn't get it and never, ever will thanks to FOX News. I bet she watches them every day.

    Posted by ThatDeborahGirl July 27, 08 02:48 AM
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