I think it's time to start a new debate, since we've killed the Gas thread topic and all of the off topic debates in that thread... So what do you all think of the cover of the New Yorker?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25673296

Essentially the cover shows a cartoon drawing of Obama and his wife pumping fists as usual... only they are in the whitehouse, Obama is dressed up in a Muslim outfit, Michelle is dressed as a Terrorist and there is a picture of Osama Bin Laden above the fire place (in which an American flag is burning)...

The NY, claims it is an attempt to show how ridiculous some of the criticisms made against Obama are... but others just think it is a crude and offensive way to stir up controversy and sell the magazine...

I fall into the later camp... it justs seems crude and not actually funny (which is what Satire should be)...