Bump Me, Bitch
Barack Obama's campaign is calling an illustration on the cover of the 7.21 issue of the New Yorker magazine, showing a turban-headed Obama fist-bumping an AK-47-slinging Michelle in the Oval Office, as "tasteless and offensive." It's meant as a satire, of course, of the right-wing scum who've been pushing the Manchurian candidate myth as well as the rural boobs who've been buying into it, but if I were on the Obama team I'd probably take one look at this thing and go "jeeeez!"
Here's an interview about the cover between New Yorker editor David Remnick and the Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 13, 2008 at 11:10 PM
comment #1
Marty Melville
says ...
That's the New Yorker, always thinking the country is as smart (or as Humbert would say, "... in the know") as they are...
didn't the last eight years tell them anything?
Posted by Marty Melville
at July 13, 2008 11:24 PM
comment #2
Adonis
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Wow. Just... wow. $20 says someone gets fired over this.
Posted by Adonis
at July 14, 2008 12:19 AM
comment #3
fielding
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[Deleted for reprehensible content.]
Posted by fielding
at July 14, 2008 12:50 AM
comment #4
Coltrane
says ...
Can we collectively purge this scumbag fielding from this post. If I want to read that drivel I can go to Redstate or some HRC worship site.
Posted by Coltrane
at July 14, 2008 3:23 AM
comment #5
Josh Massey
says ...
...And people are talking about The New Yorker for the first time in over a decade.
The picture did its job.
Posted by Josh Massey
at July 14, 2008 4:09 AM
comment #6
swordandpen
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It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Posted by swordandpen
at July 14, 2008 5:04 AM
comment #7
Mgmax, le Corbeau
says ...
In next week's issue, he and Michelle will be sitting on the front porch of the White House in bare feet, eating watermelon.
Those sophisticated New Yorkers sure do have our number out here in the sticks. Yup.
Posted by Mgmax, le Corbeau
at July 14, 2008 5:19 AM
comment #8
corey3rd
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it's only a joke if it has a punchline. Where's the headline to remind us that this is a joke about what Karl Rove wants you to think will happen? To let us know that this isn't being done out of spite. Oh wait, it's the New Yorker.
Posted by corey3rd
at July 14, 2008 5:46 AM
comment #9
Mgmax, le Corbeau
says ...
Karl Rove? All that shit has come from Obama's fellow Democrats, not from Republicans. It probably will at some point, from some minor corner, but let's be honest about what's really happened so far.
Posted by Mgmax, le Corbeau
at July 14, 2008 6:08 AM
comment #10
The Pope
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One and all,
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a "HRC worship site"? I am sure it is very obvious and i shall groan when I am told but In defence, I live in Yurp so am obviously out of the loop on that one.
Posted by The Pope
at July 14, 2008 6:33 AM
comment #11
The Pope
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Okay, sorry. I assume you mean Hillary Rodham Clinton. The only HRC with which I had any contact was a Human Rights Campaign/
Posted by The Pope
at July 14, 2008 6:37 AM
comment #12
hollyman
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I agree with Bump Me, Bitch... Unreal.....
Posted by hollyman
at July 14, 2008 6:47 AM
comment #13
tophertilson
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Corety3rd, the punchline is that it is on the cover of The New Yorker. That a picture like this is on the cover a magazine like that is, I guess, an act of satire. Not that I find it funny. I don't. But I think that's the point.
Posted by tophertilson
at July 14, 2008 6:53 AM
comment #14
Michael
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This is offensive in the same way that using the word "niggardly" appropriately is offensive. That is to say, not at all. Reactionary, ultra-p.c., humorless left...is the Obama campaign that stupid? I can't believe I have to vote for this guy.
Posted by Michael
at July 14, 2008 6:59 AM
comment #15
Bilge
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Am I the only one who thinks Michelle looks kind of hot in that get-up?
Posted by Bilge
at July 14, 2008 7:00 AM
comment #16
Michael
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Although I could be persuaded that this is how Michelle Obama sees herself when she looks in the mirror.
Posted by Michael
at July 14, 2008 7:01 AM
comment #17
sardine
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a great witty cover. Obama, love you. Now lighten up.
Posted by sardine
at July 14, 2008 7:50 AM
comment #18
Rich S.
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It's probably a good thing that Obama ultimately decided not to sponsor the NASCAR car. I don't think Jeffrey could have handled going down that road.
Posted by Rich S.
at July 14, 2008 8:51 AM
comment #19
D.Z.
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Jeff: "[Deleted for reprehensible content.]"
It should really be 'deleted for lacking taste in women'.
Michael: "This is offensive in the same way that using the word "niggardly" appropriately is offensive. That is to say, not at all. "
Yes, using racist imagery in a light-hearted way is fine and dandy, but it's only awful when it's reversed, because then it's a "double standard".
"Reactionary, ultra-p.c., humorless left..."
So how does McCain getting beaten up a few times in a POW camp really make him ready to lead again?
Posted by D.Z.
at July 14, 2008 9:48 AM
comment #20
JCEFalconi
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It's such a selfish and shortsighted move by the New Yorker.
It is supposed to be taken as satire, but what it really is, is a selfish publicity-grab by the New Yorker, using inciendary images from news stories that aren't even current, The "meme" or whatever about Obama being an unpatriotic secret muslim started dying down once he became the de-facto Democratic candidate (now it's wether he's really that liberal). Yet, here's the very hip New Yorker reminding all the rubes about their false fears.
"Starting the conversation" as the magazine's editor says, yeah, that's one "conversation" democrats want Fox News having. They'll just get two more news cycles of big letters saying "REVISITED: IS BARACK OBAMA A SECRET MUSLIM?? more after these messages".
Maybe the real story is that the New Yorkers are secret Republicans,
Posted by JCEFalconi
at July 14, 2008 9:51 AM
comment #21
Michael
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D.Z.: My final sentence in that post was a truthful one. I'm not voting for McCain. I don't know how it makes him ready to lead...it's immaterial.
As to your comment on racism...I have no idea what you're talking about; the cover is satire, and obviously not a slam of Obama (his wife, maybe). If there are people who are too stupid to realize this (and there are, in spades, on both sides)...too bad. Bravo to the New Yorker for letting it stand.
Posted by Michael
at July 14, 2008 10:15 AM
comment #22
corey3rd
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Fox is already reporting this as if Obama and his wife dressed up and posed for the pic.
Karl Rove is double dipping as a Fox News journalist and a McCain advisor. He was the guy who floated the whole "Fist bump as a terrorist support sign" before E.D. Hill pimped the lie.
Remember the motto of FoxNews, "We can lie a 1,000 times a day, but we only have to issue a correction once."
Posted by corey3rd
at July 14, 2008 10:20 AM
comment #23
frankbooth
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ps
Off-topic, but your food blog thing plays all glitchy and twitchy on my Mac. Rooftop dude sounds like he has baaaad hiccups.
Feel free to airmail me one of those ginger cookies. Though I suppose that's contrary to the whole "locally grown" theme.
Posted by frankbooth
at July 14, 2008 10:27 AM
comment #24
D.Z.
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Michael: "As to your comment on racism...I have no idea what you're talking about; the cover is satire,"
Satire usually exaggerates things that are true. This photo is just using caricatures based on things which are not true.
Posted by D.Z.
at July 14, 2008 10:30 AM
comment #25
Michael
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D.Z.: maybe so; I just felt the cover was so over-the-top with the Osama portrait et. al., that the thrust of it (right wing fever dream) was clear to me.
Posted by Michael
at July 14, 2008 10:36 AM
comment #26
DarthCorleone
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sat·ire /ˈsætaɪər/ –noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
This cover easily qualifies as satire.
Posted by DarthCorleone
at July 14, 2008 12:14 PM
comment #27
Mgmax, le Corbeau
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"Off-topic, but your food blog thing plays all glitchy and twitchy on my Mac. Rooftop dude sounds like he has baaaad hiccups."
Download the whole thing before watching it. The streaming is very hit and miss depending on your connection etc.
Posted by Mgmax, le Corbeau
at July 14, 2008 12:31 PM
comment #28
D.Z.
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Darth: "the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. "
It's not being ironic or sarcastic. It's just repeating FOX talking points. Ridicule implies going after factual information.
"a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. "
But there is no human folly or vice being targeted in that photo. It's simply race-baiting like Shylock.
Posted by D.Z.
at July 14, 2008 4:10 PM
comment #29
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Posted by saranie
at July 14, 2008 7:02 PM
comment #30
Terry McCarty
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JCE Falconi wrote:
It's such a selfish and shortsighted move by the New Yorker.
It is supposed to be taken as satire, but what it really is, is a selfish publicity-grab by the New Yorker, using inciendary images from news stories that aren't even current,
Anyone here remember the (I believe it was drawn by Art Spiegelman) NEW YORKER cover with the Orthodox Jewish man kissing the African-American woman?
Re satire, anyone remember NATIONAL LAMPOON from the 70s, with covers and articles that went farther than this week's NEW YORKER cover?
Posted by Terry McCarty
at July 15, 2008 12:06 AM
comment #31
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