Everyone else is writing about this, NewMexiKen might as well too. That’s this week’s New Yorker cover, art by Barry Blitt. That’s Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office, she with AK-47, he in Muslim garb. The American flag is in the fireplace.
This cover work for you?
Update: New Yorker editor David Remnick —
Obviously I wouldn’t have run a cover just to get attention — I ran the cover because I thought it had something to say. What I think it does is hold up a mirror to the prejudice and dark imaginings about Barack Obama’s — both Obamas’ — past, and their politics. I can’t speak for anyone else’s interpretations, all I can say is that it combines a number of images that have been propagated, not by everyone on the right but by some, about Obama’s supposed “lack of patriotism” or his being “soft on terrorism” or the idiotic notion that somehow Michelle Obama is the second coming of the Weathermen or most violent Black Panthers. That somehow all this is going to come to the Oval Office.
The idea that we would publish a cover saying these things literally, I think, is just not in the vocabulary of what we do and who we are… We’ve run many many satirical political covers. Ask the Bush administration how many.
You forgot the portrait of Osama bin Laden above the mantle.
McCain’s gotta be thinking, omigod, how will they portray me.
How about McCain in a toga fiddling. You know… with the view out the window of the city burning.