<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikinews has related news: New Yorker's Obama cover sparks outrage </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikinews has related news: New Yorker's Obama cover sparks outrage </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Politics of Fear", a cartoon by Barry Blitt featured on the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue, depicts then presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in the turban and salwar kameez typical of many Muslims, fist bumping with his wife, Michelle, portrayed with an Afro and wearing camouflage trousers with an assault rifle slung over her back . They are standing in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden hanging on the wall and an American flag burning in the fireplace in the background . </P> <P> Many New Yorker readers saw the image as a lampoon of "The Politics of Fear", as was its title . Some of Obama's supporters as well as his presumptive Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, accused the magazine of publishing an incendiary cartoon whose irony could be lost on some readers . However, editor David Remnick felt the image's obvious excesses rebuffed the concern that it could be misunderstood, even by those unfamiliar with the magazine . "The intent of the cover," he said, "is to satirize the vicious and racist attacks and rumors and misconceptions about the Obamas that have been floating around in the blogosphere and are reflected in public opinion polls . What we set out to do was to throw all these images together, which are all over the top and to shine a kind of harsh light on them, to satirize them ." </P>

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