and it is good that they did do it, no matter what they claim their intent was. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this will clearly articulate what many have had a sense of but been unable to either identify or find anything agreeing with them.
No way this helps obama, too much truth in it.
It is the nature of politics that one side picks up on the misstatements and flaws of the other. For example, the liberals flogged Phil Gramm's remarks about a psychological, rather than a real, recession for political points, and of course went beyond his specific context. There are plenty of conservative cartoonists who would have done as good, if not a better, job as the artist who drew the cartoon on
The New Yorker front cover did. They may be posted in the relative anonymity of a site like FR, or on a blog of someone who does not worry about the wrath of the MSM or the RINO/Democrat political establishment. However, you could not imagine
National Review, The Weekly Standard, or even
The American Conservative placing such a cartoon on its front cover, or even in the interior pages.
Since even The New Yorker is catching some heat for their front cover, it is evident that satire is riskier, even for liberals, than it was in the 1970s, when The National Lampoon made fun of both liberal and conservative shibboleths.