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Barack Obama New Yorker Cover

Black. Female. Accomplished. No Longer Attacked.

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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Sophia A. Nelson

In the last two and a half months, Mrs. Obama has had the unique opportunity to single-handedly correct and contradict a litany of tired stereotypes about black women.

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New York Times Plays Race Card to Raise Circulation

Trey Ellis | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media

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Trey Ellis

The New York Times' non-story about Obama's casual relationship with Bill Ayers is their version of the odiously unfunny New Yorker cover of Obama dressed like a terrorist.

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Barack Obama's New Yorker Satire Sells Out On The Newsstand

New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 08.02.2008 | Media

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The controversial July 21 cover of The New Yorker portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim has been a virtual sellout on ...

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One MORE Last Comment on "The Cover"

Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media

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Jerry Weissman

One more cartoon deserves mention: Walt Handlesman's view on how a prototypical New Yorker reader ..."Urbane! ... Abstract!" ...views the cover is spot on. Check it out.

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The Next New Yorker Cover

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media

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Robert Koehler

The moral perspective of the New Yorker cover was buried at the bottom of the table of contents on page two -- fiendishly understated, you might say.

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For Whom the Satire Tolls

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

The media's self-censoring is not reverse racism. It's just racism. If only "positive" views of Obama are allowed, it's only because we believe he needs protection.

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What a Week

Bart Motes | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

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Bart Motes

All of us, including Barack Obama, should hope that the Obama campaign did not snub Ryan Lizza, not only because of what it would tell us about Obama, but because of what Lizza is capable of telling us.

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Vanity Fair Spoofs New Yorker Cover

Vanity Fair | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

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We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete f...

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Laughter and the '08 Campaign

Bruce Kluger | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

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Bruce Kluger

Who can blame viewers for wanting a little cavorting with their reporting? Today's voters toggle easily between sober op-eds and faux-news analysts squirting seltzer down the candidates' pants.

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Best Thing Yet About the Obama New Yorker cover

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media

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Mark Oppenheimer

If you haven't seen it yet, check out Lee Siegel's extremely smart piece about the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as anti-Americ...

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How I didn't end up being a criminal

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

The imagery on the cover of the New Yorker represents the quality of conversation on race and religion in this country: mixed messages, nothing decoded.

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The Next New Yorker Cover Must Be "McBush"

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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Harvey Wasserman

Shouldn't the New Yorker now give equal time to the factors that could likewise define the McCain campaign -- his one-ness with the incumbent, his age, his unbalanced temper, his misogyny?

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Maureen Dowd and Jon Stewart: Senator Obama Has a Sense of Humor Do You?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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Frank Schaeffer

There are worse things than being serious. Being robbed of a country that that we can be proud of is one. We are voting for Obama to restore hope and national pride, without which laughter makes no sense.

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My Conversation with David Remnick about the New Yorker's Obama Cover

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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Charlie Rose

2008-07-17-remnickrose.jpgI talked to Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, about the magazine's controversial cover of Barack and Michelle Obama.

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Why Obama Should Thank The New Yorker

Irshad Manji | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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Irshad Manji

In shocking people with so many fierce images at once, the New Yorker has handed Barack Obama an opportunity to score three timely campaign victories.

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New Yorker Unveils Next Week's Cover: Baruch Obama!

Tony Hendra | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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Tony Hendra

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Jon Stewart Takes On Media, Obama For Overreacting To New Yorker Cover: "It's Just A F***ing Cartoon!"

Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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On Tuesday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took on the media and Barack Obama for overreacting to, and thus validating, the New Yorker cover controversy. ...

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The New Yorker vs. The Media Channel on GRITtv.org

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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Laura Flanders

2008-07-16-ny.jpg Information or Inflammation? Hendrik Hertzberg and Danny Schechter went at it on GRITtv.

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Both Sides Now

Sam Greenfield | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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Sam Greenfield

I understand the satiric tone of the cartoon, and I would think that in a world blessed with a sense of humor, it would be a non-issue. Sadly, we do not have the same sense of humor we used to.

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That New Yorker Cover

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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Peter Clothier

The New Yorker forgot the vast mass of voters who lack the critical discrimination to read their cover in other than literal terms: those many who will understand it at face value, not for its ironical intention.

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Critics of New Yorker Cover Ignore Depth and Substance of Racism

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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Ray Hanania

The media never looked at the cover as racist on its face, exploiting a stereotype that is only denounced when it is wrapped around a popular presidential candidate and a minority.

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Rachel Weiner

Obama's Larry King Interview: Responds To New Yorker's "Attempt At Satire"

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

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Obama will appear on Larry King tonight. Here are some excerpts. On the New Yorker cover: LARRY KING, HOST: I've heard a lot of others comment on i...

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Jason Linkins

A New Yorker Cover For National Review

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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[UPDATED, below.] Andrew Sullivan pulls this editorial cartoon from David Horsey, and asks, "How would the Republican base react to this?" Of cour...

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The Politics of Fear

Lucy Carrigan | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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Lucy Carrigan

We are all terrified, plain and simple, that somehow the right-wing smear campaign will succeed in defeating our candidate. We are the ones who have become... not stupid, but scared-stupid and irrational.

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Good News, Bad News and Obama

Rory O'Connor | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

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Rory O'Connor

The Romanian Senate recently voted to require 50 percent of all material reported by Romanian media outlets to be "positive news." Absurd! Ridiculous! Maybe we should do the same thing here.

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