"Aides to Barack Obama are blasting a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts 'President Obama; in the Oval Office, wearing a Muslim-style outfit and doing a fist-bump with his wife, Michelle, who is dressed in camouflage with an automatic rifle slung over her back. A picture of Usama bin Laden hangs above the mantel of the fireplace, which has an American flag burning in it. The July 21st cover, titled The Politics of Fear, is intended to be a parody, an attempt to show how “scare tactics and misinformation” are being used to try to derail Barack Obama’s campaign, says cover artist Barry Blitt. “I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous,” Blitt wrote in an e-mail to the Huffington Post. “It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.” The Obama campaign has had to fight an intensive e-mail spam campaign that claims Obama is secretly a Muslim, and his wife is a black radical. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton called the New Yorker cover over the top."Rico says of course it's over the top; the notion is to sell magazines, not promote the candidate. But this sort of thing will only get worse if he's actually elected... (And won't it be a huge joke on us all when he's in the White House and reveals that he is secretly a Muslim.)
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