That’s The New Yorker’s satirical way of showing that when you portray all the crazy Obama smears in one illustration, you get a very ridiculous picture.
The magazine is making fun of the nuts that believe all the crazy stuff about Obama being a Muslim; that he was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on a Koran; that his wife is a terrorist that hates Whitey; that they are disciples of Osama Bin Laden; and that they hate the flag and all it stands for.
But it’s Obama’s supporters who are all whacked out about the caricature. I’ll bet the Right wingnuts love the cover and don’t even recognize it as a joke about themselves.
In this interview with David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, he is asked if the magazine has plans for an equally unflattering portrayal of McCain. What the people upset about this cartoon don’t get is that an about face by The New Yorker would be a parody of Left’s distortions of McCain. The Left has its crazies too, but would the sum of their distortions even come close to the Obama caricature? I would hope not.
The joke is on those who perpetuate the smears, not the candidates themselves.
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