I don't understand why there isn't more outrage over the
New Yorker Obama cover on the right. The cartoon is
intended to make fun of conservatives as ignorant racists, and
essentially marginalize any criticism of Obama as moronic. Remnick
tells theHuffington Post that, "it
combines a number of images that have been propagated, not by
everyone on the right but by some, about Obama's supposed 'lack of
patriotism' or his being 'soft on terrorism' or the idiotic notion
that somehow Michelle Obama is the second coming of the Weathermen
or most violent Black Panthers. That somehow all this is going to
come to the Oval Office." Meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg writes that, "it's almost exactly
the sort of cover you could expect to find on the front of National
Review." Doesn't that kind of prove Remnick's point?