Why Obama Should Thank The New Yorker
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.
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.
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
In light of the controversy surrounding this week's New Yorker cover, we wanted get some insight from an insider at the notoriously tight-lipped publi...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
The great danger is that the lies and maliciousness the Obama slander sites busily fan could or has had some resonance with some voters, especially the much fought-over independents.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
Barack Obama was asked if he had a response to the very controversial New Yorker cover that combines every rumor and smear about him and his wife Mich...
Steve Posner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Obama's faith should be irrelevant since unlike Bush's Christian-dominated faith-based initiatives, he insists that he will not use government resources to promote either Christianity or Islam or any other religion.
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
This week's New Yorker cover shows Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim terrorists burning a flag in the Oval Office. Why would they publish such a thing? We asked New Yorker editor David Remnick. Here's what he said.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
Who knows if they'll get this in Dubuque, but they sure aren't going to like it in Chicago: This week's New Yorker cover features an image of Michell...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
Presumably the readership is sophisticated enough to get the joke, but this going to upset a lot of people -- probably for the same reason it's going to delight a lot of others on the right.
Paul Hogarth | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
The fact that some voters in "Flag City" think that Obama is a Muslim doesn't mean he will lose Ohio -- and it certainly doesn't belong on the front page of the Washington Post.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
The false rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim spread quickly and widely throughout the internet. Obama has launched a website, FightTheSmears.com, to ...
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Up until now, the Obama campaign has been smarter in its dealings with controversy, but they feared what some right wing Republicans will do with a picture of Barack Obama and, god-forbid, a Muslim.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign, seeking to combat the spurious rumors that run amok online, has launched a campaign site named Fight The Smears, dedicated to the ...
AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — A young Muslim woman said she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama _ and in front of TV cameras _ at a De...
Guardian | Ewan MacAskill | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama is recruiting senior staff to a new unit which will combat virulent rumour campaigns on the internet that threaten to cost him votes in t...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
There is great concern -- both within and outside of Barack Obama's campaign -- that the smear attacks suggesting that the Senator is, in fact, a Musl...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
*** UPDATES TO LIEBERMAN/OBAMA ENCOUNTER BELOW *** More than the last two elections, the religious vote is up for grab between John McCain and Barack...
McClatchy | Ryan Alessi | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, facing a likely defeat in next Tuesday's primary election, won't travel to Kentucky before the voting,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
It's been a few weeks since the nation has pointedly moved on from the Wright matter, so I guess it's time for the pendulum to swing back to the Obama-as-secret-Muslim argument.
Art Levine | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
All the smear tactics aimed at Barack Obama appear to be working with key segments of the voters who support Hillary -- no matter how false the charges.
John Eskow | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
It's beginning to seem that fish-wrapper newspapers are eerie predictors of the narratives we can expect to see in the so-called mainstream media.
August J. Pollak | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
James Zogby | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Rep. Steve King should be formally censured by the Congress, so as to make it clear that bigoted remarks such are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Underneath the stomach-turning Clintonian strategy for winning the nomination are little passion plays playing out -- about the state of the nation, and the state of its soul-sick psyche.
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
After being forced to respond to three separate incidents in recent weeks of conservatives alluding to Barack Obama's middle name, John McCain's campa...
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Irshad Manji | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media