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"The New Yorker Cartoon" What's Really Offensive
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The "New Yorker" cover page makes fun of the sad fact that vast
swaths of voters actually believe that the Obama's depicted in the
cartoon are real. But, it also shines a light on the units of the
media machine that have inadvertently helped perpetuate the rumors and
innuendo that have led to mis-perceptions about the Obama's patriotism.
Now that's offensive.
The inability of Obama supporters to appreciate that sort of irony is
offensive as well, since they know all to well, the cartoon, in its
outrageousness and non-PC style, does exactly that.
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