>>>>Way over the line:
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>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/obama.cover/index.html
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>>>>Now the media is outright calling him unpatriotic...
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>>>I guess it's in the eye of the beholder but seemed to me such obvious hyperbole that it is indeed meant to ridicule his detractors.
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>>>(and the New Yorker and it's audience could hardly be considered the bedrock of the vast right-wing conspiracy :-)
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>>Seems similar to the sort thing you get here in Private Eye
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>The New Yorker is famous for cartoons that specialize in being so esoteric that those who get them get a tingle from knowing they are so superior to people who probably *don't* live Manhatten who could never be sophisticated enough, sufficiently post-modern, or adequately drenched in irony to begin to understand them.
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>I would imagine when the cover was presented to David Remick and anyone expressed reservations he said "Screw 'em, they probably live in New Jersey."

I don't find New Yorker cartoons nearly that elitist. Once in a while there will be a head scratcher but most of them are pretty easy to understand.

I have dropped a lot of magazines but doubt I will ever let the New Yorker subscription lapse.