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Mike Allen / The Politico:
‘Scare tactic’ — Obama slams Muslim portrayal — 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.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THAT NEW YORKER COVER....I blogged a few hours ago about Ryan Lizza's Obama piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, but at the time I hadn't seen the cover that went along with it. Now I have, because when I browsed through my RSS feed after dinner it turned out that the entire (liberal) …
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The Huffington Post:
David Remnick On That New Yorker Cover: It's Satire, Meant To Target “Distortions And Misconceptions And Prejudices” About Obama — Earlier today, the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious. — The cover by Barry Blitt, called …
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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
“Hope” — I guess it takes a lot of that stuff to actually make a statement like this: … Well that's all true Senator Obama, but you're making a fundamental mistake. Basic truth is too much to handle for our media and because they say so, it must therefore be too much for us.
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
New Yorker Obama Terrorist Cover — The liberal blogs are in a tizzy about the cover of the July 21 New Yorker, an illustration by Barry Blitt which shows the Obamas in terrorist outfits, doing a fist bump with a big portrait of Osama bin Laden over their mantle with an American flag burning in the fireplace:
Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:Ya can't make it up — The New Yorker says it's satire.
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Nico Pitney / The Huffington Post:Barry Blitt Defends His New Yorker Cover Art Of Obama
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The Huffington Post:Yikes! Controversial New Yorker Cover Shows Muslim, Flag-Burning …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:Troops in Afghanistan Need Help, Obama Says
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:Obama was right: Another hateful, bigoted attack from ... the New Yorker?
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Barack Obama / New York Times:
My Plan for Iraq — THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fannie, Freddie and You — And now we've reached the next stage of our seemingly never-ending financial crisis. This time Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse. How worried should we be? — Well, I'm going to take a contrarian position …
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Clive Crook / Financial Times:
Guarantees for America's guarantors — US taxpayers are about to find out what their long-standing and (strictly speaking) non-existent guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will cost them. One way to think of it is this: take the US national debt of roughly $9,000bn and add $5,000bn.
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Obama backers on the left are doing the wincing now — When Jesse Jackson's Castrato-gate or the Barack Obama Nuts Controversy or whatever you want to call it erupted last week—as captured by the hot microphones of Fox News—terrible cries of pain went unnoticed.
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Elizabeth Aguilera / The Politico:
Denver businesses stiffed by DNC — As soon as Charlotte Kulscar heard the Democratic National Committee named Denver its 2008 convention site, she began researching how to get a piece of the estimated $160 million economic impact for her print shop. — She thought she had a good shot.
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Hot Air
Jerusalem Post:
Obama backtracks on an undivided J'lem — In his first major speech minutes after clinching the Democrat nomination as the party's candidate for the US presidential election, Barack Obama surprised listeners at an AIPAC convention by saying Jerusalem should be Israel's “undivided” capital.
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Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
No fuzzy math: State Dems sign up voters 7-1 over GOP — TALLAHASSEE - John McCain's Florida problems may be growing: Democratic voters have out-registered Republicans by a nearly 7-to-1 margin since January. — State totals show Democrats gained a net of 106,508 voters from January through May …
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CNN:
Sudanese president charged with genocide — (CNN) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur. — Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday urged a three-judge panel to issue an arrest warrant …
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Wall Street Journal:
Foreign Courts Take Aim at Our Free Speech — Our Constitution is one of our greatest assets in the fight against terrorism. A free-flowing marketplace of ideas, protected by the First Amendment, enables the ideals of democracy to defeat the totalitarian vision of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
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