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In satirical payback, Obama camp denies New Yorker writer plane seat
There's probably no connection whatsoever.
But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason for the magazine's controversial cover by Barry Blitt depicting Obama as a Muslim, has been barred from traveling with Obama on his foreign field trip this week.
The elitist magazine claimed the cover's depiction was satirical of a Muslim Obama fist-bumping with a militant wife Michelle armed with an AK-47 beneath a portrait of Osama bin Laden while they burn a U.S. flag -- in the Oval Office.
Initially, the Obama campaign and John McCain's spokesman denounced the cover.
Later, a cooler Obama dismissed it as a weak attempt at satire amid much more important things to discuss.
More than 200 media folks applied to fly in Europe with the freshman senator. But, alas, the Obama campaign said it simply was not able to find a seat for Lizza. (Overdue hat tip to Mike Allen at Politico.com)
Now, that's Chicago politics.
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The more I see you, the less I like you
la la la la la
and so it goes
They say the man for president
can only be you
la la la la la
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In satirical payback, Obama camp denies New Yorker writer plane seat
There's probably no connection whatsoever.
But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason for the magazine's controversial cover by Barry Blitt depicting Obama as a Muslim, has been barred from traveling with Obama on his foreign field trip this week.
The elitist magazine claimed the cover's depiction was satirical of a Muslim Obama fist-bumping with a militant wife Michelle armed with an AK-47 beneath a portrait of Osama bin Laden while they burn a U.S. flag -- in the Oval Office.
Initially, the Obama campaign and John McCain's spokesman denounced the cover.
Later, a cooler Obama dismissed it as a weak attempt at satire amid much more important things to discuss.
More than 200 media folks applied to fly in Europe with the freshman senator. But, alas, the Obama campaign said it simply was not able to find a seat for Lizza. (Overdue hat tip to Mike Allen at Politico.com)
Now, that's Chicago politics.
****
The more I see you, the less I like you
la la la la la
and so it goes
They say the man for president
can only be you
la la la la la
.....
