Even the witty, hip, liberal New York Times is unable to actually tell you
what the joke was.
- What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet.On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from both Democrats and Republicans was explosive.