Lloyd Williams: New Yorker Cover Depicts the Obamas as Terrorists
The closer Barack Obama gets to winning the White House, the more determined his adversaries have become to derail his campaign by any means necessary....on the cover of the July 21st issue of the New Yorker Magazine....Barack is depicted in Arab garb complete with turban, and looking suspiciously like Osama bin Laden whose portrait has replaced that of a prior president on the wall. The not so subtle suggestion being made here is that a vote for Obama is a vote for an Islamic radical terrorist. Meanwhile, Michelle is attacked in a different way, being drawn with a big afro and a machine gun slung over shoulder in front of a fireplace with a United States flag burning in it. These images are designed to imply that she’s a Sixties-style black militant who hates her country and advocates a violent revolution.