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'New Yorker' Cover: It's Called a Joke, People

by Jeff Bercovici Jul 14, 2008

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Ah, summer. That glorious season when a "controversy" becomes a CONTROVERSY.

By all rights, the flap over The New Yorker's new cover ought to be enclosed in major scare quotes. The cartoon, of Barack Obama as a jihadist and his wife as a Black Panther, sharing a "terrorist fist jab" in the oval office, is clearly meant to stir the pot, in the tradition of iconic New Yorker covers like this one and this one.

But many on the left think the magazine did their candidate a grievous wrong by producing an image that will no doubt be used, unironically, to reinforce the same smears it's trying to send up ...

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