The Manchurian Muslim….
In 1959, writer Richard Condon, penned a thriller about the son of a prominent political family who is brainwashed into becoming an unwilling assassin for the Communist Party.
The Manchurian Candidate was subsequently made into two movies, in 1962 and 2004.
A review by The New Yorker called the book among other things: “Brilliant…Wild and exhilarating.”
Now, The New Yorker is taking a lot of heat because of it’s latest cover—depicting Barack Obama as a Manchurian Muslim running for the presidency.
The editors of the magazine are defending it as satire, saying its images of a gun-toting wife, burning American flag, Turban, and portrait of Osama Bin Laden is meant to poke fun of all the whispering campaigns aimed at Obama.
But the satire has fallen flat—instead earning the haughty magazine round criticism from everyone from John McCain to other magazine editors like those from Newsweek.
For satire to work—people have to “get” what being satirized.
But, in the case of this magazine cover—a lot of folks think it’s depicting something real—and they just assume that Obama really is a Muslim and that he is bent on destroying American values.
But if they stopped to think it through—they’re realize it wasn’t true.
If Obama was a real Muslim, once he saw the cartoon, he’d have reacted by rioting and burning down the offices of The New Yorker.
—Steve
Link to the video and the story Steve covered today on NBC-17
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