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By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » Maddow & Alter: “The New Yorker cover is irresponsible because they should know that Americans are too supid to understand it.”

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:46:52 +0000

[...] I have no problem with Alter’s thesis (reinforced in Alan’s post here) – that the “Obama is a Muslim” lie must be challenged, confronted and corrected in the [...]

By: wj

wj — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:26:19 +0000

On the other hand, I saw a different poll recently where another several percent believe that he is a Jew. Go figure!

I anxiously await the first cartoon satirizing that. Should be no problem, especially after the speach he gave about Israel (which was after the poll, by the way).

By: Divided We Stand United We Fall

Divided We Stand United We Fall — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:33:52 +0000

Its up to you New Yorker! New Yorker!…

But what do I know. Perhaps the Obama campaign is right. Perhaps it is important for every President and political candidate to immediately respond with righteous indignation on every political magazine cover. Perhaps Hillary Clinton and George W Bush …

By: Pacze Moj

Pacze Moj — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:28:03 +0000

I’m actually quite disheartened by the fact that if that cartoon had been satirizing, say, Obama being “soft on terrorism”, then most people who now defend it would then be attacking it.