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The New Yorker is typically a magazine people subscribe to; it's one of my favorites (most of my clients have subscriptions, for which I am thankful). I think that the image is definitely one that most readers of the New Yorker are going to look at and understand what's going on--that it's meant to be a satire of the various smears made against both Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. It's not meant to disparage either of them; it's meant to disparage the lies that have been told about them. I sincerely doubt many people who subscribe to the New Yorker will be canceling their subscriptions any time soon. The image may be bordering-on-tasteless kind of satire (I'm not a fan of it, simply because taking it at face value promotes a wealth of misinformation, and so much of this country is seemingly incapable of critical thought), but it is definitely an image that causes people to stop and ask questions--and hopefully think more deeply about those questions. Hopefully. I'm not really holding out hope, though.

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