I actually agree with the satirist. It is the picture that McCain's camp is trying to paint. Probably should have put the title of the artwork on the cover too, but they want to sell magazines and this is definitely getting the attention they wanted.

Art should imitate life, and this is funny when taken in the proper context, because of it's absurdity. Being upset about it only proves how worried we are people aren't smart enough to tell the difference between the reality and the propaganda. It's a sad commentary on the state of politics in America.

"We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it's tasteless and offensive," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.

Yes Tucker, it's tasteless when a liberal points out the smear campaign but it's just politics when it's an anonymous email sent millions of times or someone on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" spreading the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) about the Obama campaign.

This is such a low blow that it is not worth any time at all, but obviousy Main Stream Media is getting desperate at the thought of losing all their tax breaks in 2009 and they will fill up our air waves with this stinking stuff.

Again, it's all a distraction to breed fear and hate. Don't we have enough of that?

I demand equal time. If you are going to satirize Obama, satirize McCain.

Otherwise I think perhaps some sort of crusade AGAINST the advertisers of the New Yorker, might just be in order.

It's not often that I am speechless, but. . . . .

Churlpat -- a plutarch by any name is still a plutarch

The spin is in. First the L.A. Times is telling me (the only person I can speak for) that this is "satire." Well, dearies, I've ghostwritten satire since SNL began, and this ain't it.

CNN is also blathering on about the satirical aspects of this cover. Yeah, right. What, Rupert Murdoch is now one of your writers?

Woody188's comments made me laugh aloud -- and that's something. Thanks. Funny thing is that if formerly great The New Yorker had done that, it would've been amusing because those things are light and McCain has joked about them himself.

But what they did to Obama by suggesting the evil rumors still lurking under ill-informed rugs are based on fact, have given new dimensions to the meaning of "not in touch." The Algonquin Round Table has turned square.

They're not suggesting that rumors lurking under rugs are anything. In fact, they're actually poking the rumormongers straight in the eye by bringing the mental images to life so that everyone can see how ridiculous they actually are in the light of day.

The object of satire isn't Obama. It's the mental image of Obama as cooked up by the slimeballs who fear him, the Koran-swearing Muslim radical President who will immediately turn all the public schools into Halal serving madrassas, mount a portrait of Osama bin Laden in every government agency, the leftist apparatchik who will summon
convoys of Iranian car bombers down Connecticut Avenue to follow his motorcade on Inauguration Day.

Jeff H in Occupied TX

How many of "the sheep" read The New Yorker.

-- Kent Shaw

If the New Yorker is news than this cover has no place in a legitimate news media.

If the New Yorker is entertainment, propaganda or something other than NEWS then it shoud advertise itself as such.

The sheep will think that another newspaper has confirmed all the hoaxes that have been proven untrue.

That fact goes entirely ignored though. So once again in the name of truth here are the links to the

Truth about Obama
Obama Hoaxes...True or False?

Truth about McCain
McCain Hoaxes...True or False?

Interesting that McCain has only 18 circulated hoaxes and Obama has 39 circulated hoaxes. That is more than 2 published lies about Obama for every 1 published lie for McCain.

Leave it to Pollchecker to come up with facts.

My hero.

Queen D
While knowing that I state the obvious, the latest Obamatoon perpetrated by the New Yorker is just part of a series of “satires” and commentaries to be expected in an election year and capitalized on by those who are dealing with their own subliminal equivocation. These deluded entities are intentionally or unintentionally encouraging the idea that Obama is a Muslim sympathizer, (HEAVEN FORBID) if not a Muslim himself and that his wife is a tough, militant, non-patriotic uppity negro whose rise on the tails of her husband will lead to a lowering of the “class” associated with the nation’s highest office. I say intentionally or unintentionally because the impulses that compel these exercises in poor taste are often not even clear to the perpetuators.

These are two highly educated, family oriented people who have not grown up with silver spoons in their mouths and an inability to relate to a cross section of people from a global and economic perspective. If ANYTHING, Obama’s non-American name, his skin color and his gracious and knowledgeable wife of color would beyond a doubt pan out to be enormous assets in proving that America is ready to join the rest of the world on an even footing, fellow dancers gliding across a world stage that is evolving racially, socially and economically.

For those who lack the intellectual rigor to understand the mostly positive and refreshing change this will make in the United States and abroad, I feel sorry for their lack of vision. Obama may not be perfect, but he sure beats another Republican in office.

I'm no artist (and it wouldn't work here anyway), but I wonder why the New Yorker doesn't have some of the following "satirical" covers:

- Cheney blowing off someone's head with a shotgun
and saying "oops"

- A time-bomb ticking in McCain's swollen cheek

- A typhoon wiping out a 3rd world country,
titled "Nature's own environmental cleanup tool"

I imagine I could propose some even cruder ideas, but then I'd be doing the New Yorker's work for them.

I guess they don't know the difference between humor, satire, political criticism, bad taste, and libel - it's all the same to them.

As Gomer would say: "Shame, shame, shame"

Sure looks to me like sensitivity took a one eighty.

I'd have to guess, when you're flush with other peoples cash it tickles.

Obamatoons and Oops. Welcome.

The whole affair is nothing more than a tempest in a teapot. If people are shocked, SHOCKED I say, and angry over the New Yorker cover well then they better stock up on blood pressure pills because y'all ain't seen nuffin' yet.

-- Kent Shaw