I think one has to be an insider to see the New Yorker‘s cover as in any way an attack on conservatives. If anything, the Remnick-Hertzberg rag is guilty of being too clever by half, taking some generally known unserious tropes and having a field day with them, as if at some level the magazine actually thought such a caricature had some basis in fact. Obama-Osama aside, what could it have been thinking depicting Michelle as the second coming of Angela Davis? This is all of a piece with the Obama crowd’s Achilles’ heel: its elitism. The smug look on Obama’s face says it all.
