Barack Obama's campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Obama in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.
An American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it's the cover is meant to satirize the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Obama. I say that it is a crude, ignorant and racist perpetuation of stereotypes that was built to create danger for Obama.
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 Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."
The issue, which goes on sale Monday, includes a long piece by Ryan Lizza about Obama’s start in Chicago politics.
