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10:45 AM ET, July 14, 2008

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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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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.
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) …
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
Nico Pitney / The Huffington Post:
Barry Blitt Defends His New Yorker Cover Art Of Obama  —  Barry Blitt is the artist behind this week's very controversial New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama.  Via email, I asked him to respond to those who feel that his work was offensive, and to explain his own personal feelings about the Obamas.
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:
Michelle Malkin:
Grow a pair, Obama  —  So, you found this satirical New Yorker cover art “tasteless and offensive.”  —  Welcome to public life.  —  Guess what?  In Washington, political cartoonists and caricaturists spare no one.  —  Here's a reminder of the crap Condi Rice has had to deal with over the years:
Discussion: Michelle Obama Watch
Editor and Publisher:
‘New Yorker’ Cover With Obama as Muslim “Terrorist' Draws Heat
Discussion: The Fix and Philly.com
Katie Fretland / The Swamp:
Obama campaign slams New Yorker cover
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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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
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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.
Discussion: pandagon.net
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.
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
Discussion: MSNBC
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.
Discussion: Commentary
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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Associated Press:
Iran denounces McCain's remarks about cigarettes
Discussion: TIME.com
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
U.S. Census Bureau won't count same-sex marriages
Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Remarks to La Raza
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Los Angeles Times:
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Huckabee 2012?  —  Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee …
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Discussion: TIME.com
MSNBC:
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