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Why Obama should thank his satirists
Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Jul 16, 2008
My latest column deals with the controversial magazine cover satirizing right-wing claims that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim and his wife is a not-so-secret Black Panther.
Unlike those who are excoriating the New Yorker magazine, I say this: “the cover from hell should be treated as manna from heaven. In shocking people with these fierce images, the New Yorker has handed the Obama campaign a chance to score three timely victories.”
Read my entire commentary in The Globe and Mail.
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