DISQUS

Di-NC · 1 year ago

The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a NEW YORKER magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife. An American flag burns in their fireplace. The NEW YORKER says it’s satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news. THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN QUICKLY CONDEMNED THE RENDERING. SPOKESMAN BILL BURTON SAID IN A STATEMENT: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

WHAT? NO CRIES OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FROM THE LEFT? --- OR, DOES THAT ONLY APPLY WHEN CONDOLEEZA RICE IS CARICATURED AS A “HOUSE NEGRO?”

FOR OVER THREE DECADES I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT I FOUGHT IN VIET NAM IN PART TO GIVE OTHERS THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, EVEN WHEN OFFENSIVE. I HAVE BEEN TOLD TO JUST “BUCK IT UP” WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH IS PORTRAYED A BUMPKIN --- OR A CHIMPANZEE.

SORRY, BUT FOR ALL THOSE WHO CONDONED ALL THE VITRIOL PRINTED AT BUSH --- YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPRESS OUTRAGE NOW AT THIS.

IT IS A TWO WAY STREET!!!!

I’LL VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN NOVEMBER.