Award-winning editorial cartoonist, Mike Luckovich, commented on the controversial Barack Obama Satire. The New Yorker cover illustrates the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as an over-zealous Muslim and his wife, Michelle Obama, as a terrorist.
Luckovich tells GPB, “In order for this satire to work it has to be more absurd than what’s going on in reality… I don’t think it was over the top enough and that’s why the satire didn’t really work.”
Luckovich called it bad satire, because it needed too much explanation. The illustration hit stands on Monday sparking a huge uproar. Luckovich thinks people became angry because they saw it as a personal attack on the Obama's.
Despite the harsh response, Luckovich doesn’t believe “the artist or the New Yorker were trying to attack the Obama's… I think they were trying to show satirically the silliness of the attacks on the Obama's such as their terriositic motives. Both parties were trying to skewer the outlandish rumors and instead they skewered the Obamas.”
Luckovich tells GPB, “In order for this satire to work it has to be more absurd than what’s going on in reality… I don’t think it was over the top enough and that’s why the satire didn’t really work.”
Luckovich called it bad satire, because it needed too much explanation. The illustration hit stands on Monday sparking a huge uproar. Luckovich thinks people became angry because they saw it as a personal attack on the Obama's.
Despite the harsh response, Luckovich doesn’t believe “the artist or the New Yorker were trying to attack the Obama's… I think they were trying to show satirically the silliness of the attacks on the Obama's such as their terriositic motives. Both parties were trying to skewer the outlandish rumors and instead they skewered the Obamas.”
