For anyone who thinks they might fit into that last role, remember the first rule of comedy: don’t get mad; get even. If you don’t like what the NYer did, satirize it. Give as good as you get, and for Christ’s sake stop your impotent blubbering.

The cartoon itself, I find somewhat funny.

The yelps of existential horror about its affect on a bunch of folks who wouldn’t vote for a Black POTUS at gunpoint, however, are just plain friggin’ HILARIOUS!

Best part? The more seriously they take themselves, the more boffo they get – EXACTLY like wingnuts. Oh, sweet sweet irony.

One thing’s for damn sure – thanks to the lazy TeeVee Pundit-Brigade needing a new Obama “controversy” – & a slew of emo PC-Police-types taking a ride on their Waaaaahmbulance, The New Yorker just got itself at least $5 million worth of free publicity, for the price of one freelance cartoon.

BOOYAH!

Indeed, that is central to my point.

That’s the best joke of all – to New Yorkers, there is no rest of the world.

Last!

so terrified that Americans, in their cosmic stupidity, cannot distinguish between satire and smear

There’s no “terrified” involved. I KNOW Americans are too stupid to distinguish between satire and smear.

Uh, yeah. Isn’t that the whole point of these comments? What you guys are doing isn’t speculating?

Like I said, we’ll find out in November, won’t we?

With, underneath, in smaller but still largish print:

Not For Rubes and Literalist Simpletons?

With, underneath that, in smaller letters:

That Means Stupidheads?

With the whole thing trimmed in 1/2″ x 1/2″ images of Warhol soup cans?

Now, if it was You Tube, that might be something.

it certainly appears to have done considerable harm to his candidacy.

It certainly appears you are speculating considerably.

“Some on the left, however, are so terrified that Americans, in their cosmic stupidity, cannot distinguish between satire and smear that they reject satire.”