Get it? Do you get it? I don't get it. Oh, wait, I think I get it.

Satire? In a word? Yes. In two words? Absolutely yes. Nom’d’fucking ‘Dieu! It’s the New Yorker! You put a truncheon in some of these people’s hands and we’ve got the SS up and running again, you liberal scoundrels! Thought police! You bastards! This was not the cover of the New Republic or the Drudge Report home page! As New Yorker founder Harold Ross put it to his investors, it [the magazine, you dolts!] was not edited for ‘the little old lady from Dubuque.’

And it would never have found its way into her clammy little hands, and those in the filthy sties of the impressionable Right, were it not for the lefto-Facists in the Holy One’s camp, screaming up and down the cathedral arcade about offense and bad taste. Were these same primrose goose-steppers in Code Orange over any of covers the NYr has done with Bush over the last eight years?

Sacre’Poutine! I am glad at least that Remnick has the perspicacity to defend the cover. “The cover takes a lot of distortions, lies, and misconceptions about the Obamas and puts a mirror up to them to show them for what they are…The idea that we would publish a cover saying these things literally, I think, is just not in the vocabulary of what we do and who we are... We've run many many satirical political covers. Ask the Bush administration how many.”

From Voltaire to Heller and beyond, the destruction, inversion, subversion of Sacred Cows is what’s separated us from the demagogues and the fundamentalists; it is what keeps us from those same reactionary impulses to stymie and suppress the freedoms of others. Remember when the Monkey One once said ‘There ought to be limits to Freedom’? I get the feeling, you know, that it is the same impulse that drives these NeoLibs to Shush and Knuckle Rap.

Why not take offense, not at the content of a Bernie Mac joke as he warmed a $2,300 a plate Obama crowd, but at the fact the joke was CLEARLY unoriginal and OLD? Let’s be real here.

And when will the O Campaign stop constantly stopping to explain itself?

No Joke, people, you cats have got to stop taking yourselves so seriously.