How Not to Do A Fist-Bump Cover

Remember that New York cover that showed McCain and Obama fist-bumping at the beach? Well the New Yorker has its own fist bump this week, and everybody hates it!

The cover is a parody cartoon showing Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office, surrounded by the trappings of anti-American terrorists. The cartoon is supposed to point out the absurdity of prejudice by showing it at its extreme. Think Archie Bunker.

The joke landed with thud, and the cover is being savaged on blogs and cable news shows. The Obama campaign called it "tasteless and offensive." The satire fell so flat that illustrator Barry Blitt and New Yorker editor David Remnick have both taken the unusual step of explaining it.

It will probably be the most talked-about magazine cover of the week, though for the wrong reasons.

Comments

[Giulio Sciorio]

This is the best cover in a long long time. It's getting people to think and come out of their shells, to give opinions. Few americans actually get angry over politics anymore. We just kinda go along with everything.

Good for The New Yorker. Someone's gotta not play it safe and have the balls to piss advertisers off. If we all end up being creative solely for money then we end up like the government itself which is ruled by the Federal Reserve which is about as federal as Federal Express.

Its time to americans to get pissed off but at this cartoon? Why don't we just burn the constitution while were at it.