For anyone who has ever wondered whether 2008 Presidential candidate Barack Obama would personally sign a copy of The New Yorker of July 21, 2008, the issue featuring Barry Blitt's notorious "Fist Bump" cover, the answer is yes. The cover depicts Obama wearing Muslim attire while his wife Michelle appears as a radical extremist. The American flag burns in the fireplace. Probably you already know the whole story. If you're coming upon this image with fresh eyes, see if you can divine the liberal magazine's political intentions. I'd happily explain it, but who really needs to have a magazine cover illustration explained?
The signed cover, presumably quite a rarity, was sold on eBay in 2017.
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| The New Yorker's "Fist Bump" Issue Signed by Barack Obama eBay listing ended April 21, 2017 |
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Note: Again, I don't feel any personal obligation to defend or explain this cover art. That's New Yorker editor David Remnick's job and before the issue hit the newsstands he offered some preemptive damage control in an interview with the Washington Post. His words were subsequently quoted in the Guardian here. Suffice it to say both the Obama and the McCain campaigns condemned this cover, a rare point of bipartisan agreement.
Here's the cover as most of us have seen it, without Obama's signature:
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