LA Times: Obama Campaign Tries to Repair New Yorker Cover PR Blunder

The fallout from the “satirical” New Yorker magazine cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama continues, and in today’s LA Times Andrew Malcolm argues the Obama campaign could’ve handled all of this much better.

He writes:

Ignoring the magazine would have been ideal. But if that’s not possible, what if Burton [Obama’s communications director] had made himself available — that’s not hard to do with reporters circling like hawks — waited for the inevitable New Yorker question and said something like, “C’mon, guys.

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