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7.16.08 @ 12:01AM

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So far as I know, he is still in Hillary's camp and the thought hit me that the supposedly satirical front page may have been a hit job from Hillary, blowing the Obama campaign their version of a kiss. The emphasis on Black Muslim radicals is the line Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton pushed from the start of their primary campaign.

There is talk that Hillary will try again at the convention to get the nomination. Making the Clintons go away is like cleaning "Krazy Glue" off your fingers.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

A very savvy article by Mr. Neumayr. He's right on the mark when he describes these folks as cocooned. I'd use the word clueless. What we have here is a combination of the stupid (MSM), the obsessed (ideologue leftists), and the elites (Obama supporters), all attempting to advance the agenda, but in inept ways, that should have derailed the Obama juggernaut by now. Although there is significant overlap in all three camps, nonetheless, it's no wonder that the good leftist elites at the New Yorker were blindsided by criticism from the Obama campaign and the rest of the MSM. After all, in today's grim world of leftist determination, to finally deliver its brand of socialism to America, humor, satire, and especially the truth, have no place.

Ferraro, unwittingly stumbled over the Democrat's pecking order of aggrieved groups, in their deck of politically correct playing cards. A black inexperienced king still trumps the white entitled queen. Those clever sophisticates at the New Yorker, with their smug humor, aimed at us conservative rubes, once again, pulled at the scab on the life of the Obama's, that has many on the left in a state of panic. Now, if only we had a candidate capable of taking advantage of all these gifts the left has handed him.
-- A. DiPentima

I found the cover to be amusing myself. And while I could immediately recognize that they were attempting to satire the supposedly 'right-wing' disinformation campaign against Obama, they surely had to realize just how close some of their depictions came to the real deal. Mr. Neumayr outlines several of these pretty well in his article and I will not reiterate those points.

But I will say this: The Obama campaign has overreacted to any criticism. They will continue to do so throughout this campaign, and we can only hope that their overreactions will be seen for what they are, which is a diversionary tactic. If the New Yorker is truly left-wing, I'm willing to bet that they created this cover just so they could create some more diversion and faux-controversy to distract all of us from Obama's main theme: Liberalism you don't want.

The whole campaign makes me think of Rod Stewart... 'If I listen long enough to you...'
-- Charles Campbell
Austin, Texas

Leftist/liberal pubs like the New Yorker have reached that same level of arrogance as Obama and his handlers: They assumed that everyone would immediately see the satire.

This is yet another example of how the lust of the left and their current standard bearer to be in power seems to make them not just more ignorant, but stupid.

Thing is, there's a cure for ignorance.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

More evidence that lefties, i.e. so-called progressives, have no life and absolutely no sense of humor. One could bet that if it were McCain, Bush or any Repub or Conservative, nothing would have been said against it.
-- D. Moroco
Quantico, Virginia

Isn't it funny how the left's view of the right is always an offensive caricature? The New York tourism people must be almost as upset as the Obama campaign, years of combating the image of New Yorkers as offensive undermined by a stupid offensive cover on "The New Yorker."

But the Obama campaign is upset about more than the offense. They have been so carefully laying false trails over pointless discrepancies that lead to questions over Obama and his wife, so they can depict the conservatives, who get all hot and bothered trying to follow these bread crumbs, as outrageously offensive, so that they can tar McCain with the same brush. And all of that has been undermined by a far less subtle attempt to do the very same. Now these conservatives can say that the Obama campaign and its "willing accomplices in the drive by media," phrase on loan from Rush, have an outrageously false picture of them.

Upset that Obama will call you a bigot if you say his middle name? Worried about the status of his birth certificate? Heard the rumor that there is a tape of his wife saying outrageous things? That all came to us from the left. The first was from Obama himself. But the last item is very instructive. It came from an avid left wing supporter of Hillary. Nobody knew about it until an Obama campaign representative went on Fox News to put it down. Funny though, he did not go on the other channels. Once they knew about it, conservative commentators discussed both the accusation and the denial. The Obama campaign then released a web site smearing those commentators for attacking his wife. Then all those other fine upstanding media channels set about attacking the behavior of the commentators for their outrageous behavior, never actually blaming the real source on the left, nor mentioning that the Obama campaign had intentionally made it a news item.

These are just a few of the snares that have been left for Obama's opponents. All intentionally designed to do the very same thing the New Yorker was attempting, to smear conservatives. The main difference is the campaign is trying to trick conservatives into crossing the line of accepted behavior, but the New Yorker has crossed that line themselves and is dancing on the wrong side. The campaign was setting up the press so that it could do the smear yet act impartial. Report on Obama's being offended, use the conservative's words against them, and omit the background. But the press, being partisan, couldn't leave well enough alone, and tried to blatantly drive the point home. The trap has been sprung before it could do damage. Worse, the media has been discredited, future accusations can be portrayed as just more of the same, and the conservatives can be as outraged and offended as Obama is.

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