McCain spokesman agrees with Obama spokesman that it was tasteless and offensive

[cbc5g]

This is like high school!

:crazy:


http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/Ya_cant_make_it_up.html

McCain spokesman Tucker "Outward" Bounds quickly e-mailed: "We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. I am proud to say I disagree 100% with John McCain

[JimGinPA]

2. Off The Record The McCain Camp Is Happy About It Though...

"On the record, the McCain campaign adds: "We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it's tasteless and offensive." But privately, some McCain types admit they find the cover funny. And how bad can it be for your campaign when a national magazine, in an effort to take a shot at Fox News and talk radio, portrays your opponent like this? Some of Obama's supporters are likely to go over the top in their defensive outrage, sending subtle reinforcements to viewers who already believe that McCain is stronger than Obama on the issue of terrorism. Maybe it's funny, and maybe it's tasteless and offensive — maybe all three — but it will be noticed."

Per Byron York of 'The National Review'

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjI5MWE3ZDJhZGE4MmZiMTcwOGEyYmNjOTI3YzNhYWI=

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Adding the whole thing here, to save folks a trip to NRO

"The magazine says the cover art, featuring Barack Obama and his AK-47-toting wife in terrorist garb in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama bin Laden above the mantel and an American flag burning in the fireplace, "satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign." But the Obama campaign is denouncing the cover, saying The New Yorker's editors might believe the picture is "a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," but it is fact "tasteless and offensive."

On the record, the McCain campaign adds: "We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it's tasteless and offensive." But privately, some McCain types admit they find the cover funny. And how bad can it be for your campaign when a national magazine, in an effort to take a shot at Fox News and talk radio, portrays your opponent like this? Some of Obama's supporters are likely to go over the top in their defensive outrage, sending subtle reinforcements to viewers who already believe that McCain is stronger than Obama on the issue of terrorism. Maybe it's funny, and maybe it's tasteless and offensive — maybe all three — but it will be noticed.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjI5MWE3ZDJhZGE4MmZiMTcwOGEyYmNjOTI3YzNhYWI=

[johnnydrama]

5. doesn't the fact

the magazine has to explain there satire this much means it kinda failed in the first place?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

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