Obama addresses magazine cover
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- July
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The New Yorker cover showing Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a gun-toting militant will probably play into all of the misconceptions he has had to fight during his presidential campaign, Obama told CNN’s Larry King last night.
But according to CNN, he downplayed the cartoon.
“It’s a cartoon … and that’s why we’ve got the First Amendment,” Obama said. “And I think the American people are probably spending a little more time worrying about what’s happening with the banking system and the housing market, and what’s happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, than a cartoon. So I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it.”
“I’ve seen and heard worse,” he said. “I do think that in attempting to satirize something, they probably fueled some misconceptions about me instead. But that was their editorial judgment.”
Watch Obama on Larry King.
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