New Yorker: Barack and Michelle Obama as radicals
Release a magazine cover with a presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in Muslim garb, and adorn his wife in militant underground attire and armed with an AK-47, and there’s sure to be a seismic reaction. And did we mention the burning U.S. flag? When the presidential hopeful happens to be
Barack Obama, drawn here on the cover of The New Yorker in the midst of a so-called "terrorist fist jab" with his wife
Michelle, attempts at fun-natured satire are sure to be lost on the involved parties.
Issue date: July 21, 2008