What is being depicted in the magazine's cover? New Yorker's July Issue, "The Politics of Fear."
The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and islamic outifts, the fist-bump, the portrait of Bin Laden on the wall. All of them echo one attack or another.
The magazine said satire is part of what it does 'to hold a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of the cover." While Jay Leno, David Letterman, jon Steward of the Daily Show on the Comedy Central Conan O'Brien have been able to make fun of Senator John McCain's old age with all kinds of joke derivatives, not much has been said about Michelle and Obama. Satire may be the way to poke fun at them. The question is whether it is tasteful or tasteless.
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