Obama calls magazine cover an insult to Muslim Americans
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Republican nominee-apparent John McCain's spokesman, Tucker Bounds, seemingly too bored with the controversy to come up with an original epithet, simply agreed that the cover was " tasteless and offensive. (article 5)
Also offended by all the tastelessness was Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks who went on CNN on Monday to call for a boycott of this week's issue of the magazine. (article 5)
CHICAGO Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker magazine's satirical cover depicting him and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals didn't bother him but that it was an insult to Muslim Americans. (article 4)
The cover for the latest issue of New Yorker magazine, which hit newsstands yesterday, shows a turban-clad, robed Obama fist-bumping with an Afro-wearing, machine-gun toting Michelle Obama in the middle of the Oval Office. (article 3)
Above the burning hearth - fueled by an American flag - is a partial portrait of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. (article 3)
Rachel Sklar of The Huffington Post discussed the cover with New Yorker editor David Remnick, who said it was satire and that New Yorker covers do not have to relate to the story. (article 2)
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Source articles
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SPECIAL REPORT W/ BRIT HUME (FOX News, 07/17/2008, 1980 words)
- 'Tasteless' cover, fascinating story :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Lynn Sweet (suntimes.com, 07/15/2008, 615 words)
- Caricature brings attention, irritation (boston.com, 07/15/2008, 464 words)
- Obama calls magazine cover an insult to Muslim Americans (L.A. Times, 07/16/2008, 169 words)
- Los Angeles Times (L.A. Times, 07/17/2008, 433 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > RED EYE W/ GREG GUTFELD (FOX News, 07/15/2008, 323 words)
- New York Post (NY Post, 07/17/2008, 252 words)
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