Satire is satire, whether a wacko gets it or not! The New Yorker was right to run it. [View All]

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Those who think it confirms their suspicions are already "over the side." It can prove either a possible "teachable moment" for some (if any are capable of listening or rational thought) or a way of making the rest of the population aware that some people hold such crazy beliefs which will 1.) deter some gullible potential followers and 2.) expose commentators (as on Fox News where the "terrorist fist jab" was first invented) who play into these beliefs in often subtle ways. (Insistence on using his middle name, doing stories on Midrassas, calling Michelle "Osama's Baby Moma," . . . well, okay, that last was not subtle, but hell, the New Yorker cover has Fox News written all over it! It's a direct indictment.)

Plus the cartoon, while loaded and over loaded (i.e., it's "loud" artistically), is graceful in its straightforwardness. J'accuse, it says, and it says it strongly. ("Laugh them all to rags," Ed Dorn wrote, and this does that cleanly.)

By the way, that's the Oval Office in the cartoon. (Any stains on the carpet?)