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The Times take on The New Yorker cover

The New Yorker cover that normally brings only admiring glances has this week been subject to a huge amount of debate - most of it critical. The cover pictures the Obamas in the Oval Office dressed as their worst enemies would imagine them. The Obama campaign has declared itself offended. Are they right? We've done a Comment Central ring round. Daniel Finkelstein: I see what the cartoonist was trying to do. I realise it was satire. But I quite understand why the Obama camp was not amused read

Judging a magazine by its cover

In a new issue that will hit newsstands today, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza has an interesting piece on the political identity Barack Obama forged in Chicago. It’s 15,000 words long, and adds details and insights I haven’t seen anywhere else. But before anyone gets to the article, there’s the issue of the magazine’s cover to deal with. As he flies around the country, Senator Barack Obama has a fondness for magazines. The New Yorker is often among the titles at the front of his campaign plane. read

In A New York Minuet

Interesting that Barack Obama’s camp is so outraged that Hillary Clinton’s hometown magazine does this … … while the rest of America is still put off by the New Yorker doing this: read

More on the New Yorker Cover

More on the New Yorker Cover By Jeff Fecke | July 14, 2008 Ampersand thinks that I’m being overly concerned about what other people think, asking, “do you really think that all liberals should base what we say on whether or not the stupidest people in the world could misunderstand?” Well…that depends. It depends on where the discussion is taking place, and in what context. In the context of an election in which Barack and Michelle Obama have been the targets of a rash of vile smears, I do read

The Morning Report

Permalink | Email Author In the Headlines "Obama slams Muslim portrayal" (Mike Allen, The Politico) - 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. "McCain takes a Social Security risk" (Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times) - McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, spoke several times last week about changing how the popular retirement program is funded, at one po read