The Obama camp called the recent New Yorker cover, "tasteless and offensive."

Via CNN:
"The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree."

The latest New Yorker Magazine cover portrays Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as "enemy terrorists" in the Oval Office showing Obama wearing traditional Muslim garb and his wife Michelle wearing a machine gun. An American flag is burning in the fireplace where a portrait of Osama Bin Laden hangs over the mantle.

The New Yorker magazine stated, "We are poking fun at the scare tactics and misinformation that some have employed to derail Obama's campaign."