New Yorker: Stereotypes or satire?

The publication that perhaps best epitomizes the limousine liberal, The New Yorker, published an issue whose cover was a cartoon drawing of Obama in traditional middle eastern wear, Michelle Obama as black power radical, in the Oval Office with a portrait of Osama bin Laden and an American flag burning in the fireplace. As satire, this is excellent, capturing all the caricatures that this blog chronicles. However, as we've noted before, satire needs some context. Most viewers of the cover will merely see the stereotypes themselves, not the ridicule of them.