I think that the cover was pretty tasteless. It shows Obama as a Muslim terrorist with a picture of Osama Bin Laden hanging on the wall of the Oval Office. His wife has a machine gun slung over her back and there is a flag burning in the background. While they claim that it was simply used to poke fun at what the Republicans are trying to depict Obama as, I still think it is very offensive and should not have been published.

Call for Action: 3 Month Boycott of the New Yorker Magazine

The cover of the New Yorker Magazine is racially insensitive, racially inflammatory, and racist.

Certainly some people will call it satire; but, I believe it has, and will, just reinforce the false racist statements made by republicans, which are intended to undermine and demean Barack Obama.

For this reason, I call for everyone to Boycott the New Yorker Magazine for six months, or until they put someone from the NAACP on their editorial staff for six months, and accept and publish articles on racial insensitivity in every edition for six months.

Until then, Boycott the New Yorker Magazine.

Thanks so much for your time and support.

when i see that picture i see 1939 Germany, the Jewish man with the big lips. this is to far, have we become so jaded that we do not see this is propaganda. the ignorant masses (republicans) :P see this and it verifies in there stupid minds that Obama just sound to much like Osama. Fair enough challenging him on something else on policy or other, but this is a personal attack and it is unacceptable.

Barack Obama in Muslim garb and Michelle Obama dressed ala Angela Davis, the 70's Poster Girl of the Black Panthers and the epitome of Black Power is a depiction indeed how some people would like you to view them and wrapping it in a safety net of lampooning a presidential candidate makes it seem like a harmless parody. But is isn't is it? It is one of the most insulting and insidious method of brainwashing I've seen in a very long time. It panders to our worst fears as a nation that if a black man were elected president, this is what we will have to face. Not just any black man, mind you, but Barack Hussein Obama whose very name and upbringing have been the subject of much conversation and speculation since day one of the primaries. Couple that with Michelle Obama's statement in which she told a nation that ‘For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I Am Really Proud of My Country’ and what do you have? You have the seeds that sow more misunderstanding, hatred and bring us down to a level in which a well respected magazine can flaunt imaginary terrorism and caricatures of a Pantheresque figure without blinking an eye.