Longtime New Yorker illustrator Barry Blitt has scored his third hit Obama cover with this week’s magazine: An image of the president giggling at Mitt Romney and Net Gingrich, locked in combat on the Super Bowl gridiron.
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Blitt’s first famous Obama cover was the controversial image of the president and his wife dressed as a Muslim and a revolutionary, respectively, and doing the “terrorist fist jab.” Blitt also designed a cover of Obama walking on, and then falling into water. Obama reportedly asked for a signed copy of Blitt’s work.
Blitt’s not the first parodist to turn a chuckling Obama on to the GOP primaries. A viral image of a laughing Obama made the rounds after the South Carolina primary.
(Don Slutes) An Arizona man, Don Slutes, took a little liberty with The Washington Post front page, doctoring it with an image of Obama laughing and the headline “Gingrich Wins S.C. Primary.” The fake newspaper cover tricked a few people, including the Detroit News. Slutes said he based the montage on a National Lampoon front page of Richard Nixon laughing beneath a “McGovern wins nomination!” headline.
With the tight race in Florida coming to a head Tuesday night, we’ll have to wait to see who has the last laugh.
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