Nobama for The New Yorker’s Correspondent
By Larry Johnson on July 20, 2008 at 12:15 PM in Barack Obama, Media, New Yorker
The phrases that come to mind? How about:
Petty, Small and Vindictive … Nobama for The New Yorker … No Room on Obama’s Virgin Air One … Nein Wilkommen!
By shutting out the New Yorker correspondent, is Obama engaging in a nasty little act of getting even, demonstrating contempt for a free press, or is it satire? Wilkommen to the whirlwind Obama tour! See the senator spend 24 hours in countries he’s never before visited. But “nein” to The New Yorker.
The Politico reports today: “The campaign received 200 requests for press seats on the plane. Among those for whom there was no room was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious about the magazine’s satirical cover this week, cited space constraints.”
We’re just guessing that it wasn’t just the cover that enraged the thin-skinned Obama, but also the first long, factual account ever to appear in the media on Obama’s ruthless ambition, lack of principle, association with unsavory types in Chicago politics, and his empty record, devoid of any leadership on any issue. Ryan Lizza, former Obamaton party-liner, is now receiving his punishment.
Next stop for the untraveled Obama: the Siegesaulle, the Victory Column built as a tribute to Prussian military might and discipline after the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. In 1939, just before Hitler launched World War II, the Nazis added a gold layer to the monument and moved it to a long boulevard leading to the Brandenburg Gate. Initially, Obama demanded to speak before the Brandenburg Gate, an honor only extended to heads of state. The presumptive nominee crossed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Checkpoint Charlie, infuriating her with his presumption. With this incident the German chancellor got a little taste of how foreign policy would be conducted by an arrogant and inexperienced Obama.
After his absurd stumble, Obama picked another site for his photo-op in Berlin–the Siegesaulle. Clueless does not begin to describe Obama speaking at the monument to Prussian militarism. Not since Ronald Reagan blithered into the Bitburg cemetary, where he laid a wreath on the graves of SS soldiers, has an American figure so misunderstood and mangled German history.
The Berliners now, of course, use the Victory Column as a rallying point for the annual gay Love Parade. This is their way of satirizing their tragic heritage.
Obama’s message? He seems to have borrowed Sam Cooke’s lyrics: “Don’t know much about geography, don’t know much about history, I just know I love you.” Yeah, love you back, baby!
Except The New Yorker. Hate The New Yorker. Yes, The New Yorker.
Achtung, Obamatons! This fate is what awaits you if you so much as utter a critical word or attempt dreaded satire. Keep chanting slogans in unison! No thinking! Kein denken! Danger! Gefahr! Vorsicht!
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