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The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire.
posted by brianrApproved 7/17/2008 9:42 AM
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Mr. Colbert said in a telephone interview that a running joke on his show has been that Mr. Obama is a “secret Muslim”; the New Yorker cover, he said, was consistent with that. “It’s a completely valid satirical point to make — and it’s perfectly valid for Obama not to like it,” he said. Mr. Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Mr. Obama than other late-night hosts because “my character on the show doesn’t like him. I’m expected to be hostile to him.”
Mr. Colbert said in a telephone interview that a running joke on his show has been that Mr. Obama is a “secret Muslim”; the New Yorker cover, he said, was consistent with that. “It’s a completely valid satirical point to make — and it’s perfectly valid for Obama not to like it,” he said.
Mr. Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Mr. Obama than other late-night hosts because “my character on the show doesn’t like him. I’m expected to be hostile to him.”
Posted on 7/16/2008 12:03:13 PM by brianrApproved 7/17/2008 9:42 AM
The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. Approved 7/17/2008 9:42 AM
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