Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

On July 14, 2008, The New Yorker magazine released it's next-week-issue that included a cover cartoon depicting candidate Obama as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist. The Obama campaign, as well as the McCain campaign, quickly denounced the cover as offensive. The magazine stood by its belief that the cartoon was satirical, intended to ridicule the absurd rumors flying around about Senator Obama.

Four years later, absurd rumors about President Obama persist. One is reminded of The Whispering Gallery at the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, "a twisted, nightmarish hallway where you will hear brutally unkind things said about Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln during their early months in Washington. On the walls are cruel caricatures and barbed political cartoons that attack the Lincolns." Read more about the Lincoln Museum.