This sort of thing is expected of a right-wing publication [see picture]. The New Yorker is a leftist magazine. They claim it is an attempt to satirize the anti-Obama elements out there. The problem is that there is no article accompanying the cover to give it context. It could easily be seen as an attack. The main purpose of this outrage is to get publicity for a magazine that is seeing it's profits collapsing.
The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.
At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to the diligent Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: "The upcoming issue of the New Yorker, the July 21st issue, has a picture of you, depicting you and your wife on the cover. Have you seen it? If not, I can show it to you on my computer. It shows your wife Michelle with an Afro and an AK 47 and the two of you doing the fist bump with you in a sort of turban-type thing on top. I wondered if you've seen it or if you want to see it or if you have a response to it?"
Obama (shrugs incredulously): "I have no response to that."
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