Obama, tne New Yorker, and Satire

I just read a commentary in the Sun-Times about New Yorker's cover controversy. The point of the article is that "of course it's satire." One of the public commenters noted that anyone with a fifth-grade education would realize that it's satire.

Unfortunately, this race will be decided, in the end, by the opinions of the booboisie. There may be few voters who don't actually have a fifth grade eduction, but if you include those who, as adults, have no mental acuity greater than that of a well schooled fifth-grader, then you haven't sat around in a greasy spoon cafe and listened to the banter.

Presumably the readers of the New Yorker recognize that much of what is said about Obama, and everything about his Muslim connection, is nonsense, but this is certainly not true of the electorate as a whole and some people will see confirmation in that cover. I'll certainly defend their First Amendment right to publish as they see fit, but it's also my right to say that it was tasteless and showed bad judgment.