What’s so shocking about satire?
By Scot Lehigh | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…The latest tempest in a teapot is over a New Yorker magazine cover that shows Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim, in an Oval Office where an American flag burns in the fireplace, a picture of Osama bin Laden hangs above the mantel, and a radical, assault-rifle-toting Michelle Obama gives him a fist bump.
‘Tasteless and offensive,’ fumed the Obama campaign. Yes indeed, agreed John McCain.
For cable TV, this was almost as good as a summer shark attack….”…BS
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