New Yorker Magazine Plays on America's Fears About Obama

The New Yorker Magazine has a huge feature on the Obamessiah in this next issue, but the Obama campaign is not happy with the cartoon featured on the cover:

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."

Of course, when the McCain campaign was asked about it they couldn't just say "no comment" or "that's just the way they do things at the New Yorker", they had to condemn it:

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”

Magazines like New Yorker do this kind of satire about Republicans all the time, and I've never yet heard a Democrat condemn it. McCain is his own worst enemy.

By the way, good satire always has an element of truth in it. I think the cartoonist captured the Obama's rather well.