New Yorker Cover

I think I'm violating some kind of rule by going so long without blogging on this subject. I found the image to be neither especially funny as satire, nor especially outrageous as bad satire. The problem, though, is that the actually existing whispering campaign against Obama is so severe that it doesn't really admit of satire-by-exaggeration.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/07/-em-new-yorker-em-cover/49281/