Okay, I don’t claim to know as much as I would want to about this editorial-decision-about-the-magazine-cover stuff, but… please. There had to be someone, at least one editor or art director or something like that who happened to mention, “Well, you know, traditionally the New Yorker has a cover without any caption or content description or anything, and having Barack Obama with a head covering and his wife in an Afro and they’re burning an American flag in the fireplace with a portrait of Bin Laden hung up above the mantel… you know it might not work out the way you want it to… I just got an eensy lil’ hunch here…”
(For those of you thinking right now, “What the fuck is he ranting about this time?” and don’t pay very much attention to the news and/or live in a cave, Click Here, Pilgrim)
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