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[Via Gawker] |
» Sell Out!
"The controversial July 21 cover of The New Yorker portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim has been a virtual sellout on newsstands… The issue went off sale on Monday and preliminary estimates show single-copy sales surged 80 percent over average weekly newsstand sales, or around 75,000 copies, compared with average newsstand sales of around 43,000." We wonder how many people actually read the related article… [NY Post] |
» Payback?
"…New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason for the magazine's controversial cover by Barry Blitt depicting Obama as a Muslim, has been barred from traveling with Obama on his foreign field trip this week." [LA Times] |
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As you can see, a frightening number of the respondents are apparently mentally - or is it morally - impaired: 60% replied "the image isn't too far from the dangerous truth about the Obama family." On a somewhat related note, New Yorker staffers have contributed a total of $4,800 to Barack Obama's campaign.
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(PS: The headline "Zounds" is a contraction of "God's wounds," which apparently used to be or still is some sort of sacrireligious profanity.) |
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