Gov. Paterson, NAACP condemn magazine cover
CINCINNATI -- New York Governor David Paterson and the NAACP have condemned the New Yorker magazine's satirical cover showing Democrat Barack Obama and his wife as radicals.
Speaking Thursday at the group's national convention in Cincinnati, Paterson called the magazine's cover vicious. The NAACP also condemned the cover as "tasteless, Islamaphobic, mean spirited and racially offensive."
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The magazine went on the newsstands Monday. New Yorker Editor David Remnick told the Huffington Post Web site the cover was chosen because it had something to say.
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