Satire is not a pretty business

Okay, I thought the area of Northern California that I live in was the most irony-challenged place in the world, but give me a freaking break! Is it possible so many people really didn't get the joke in this New Yorker cover? I mean, Mad Magazine was doing this level of joke in the 1960s, and there wasn't a lot of ruckus about it then.

Alright folks, listen closely now. When a cartoon incorporates so many ludicrous and obvious stereotypes, culled from the worst of the bullshit that Fox News and the like put out, it is making a point, albeit a very heavy-handed one. Of course this is over the top, BUT THAT'S THE POINT!!!!! I'm stunned this has become controversial, even among lefty media types. It is irony, and it uses the inflation of ridiculous imagery to make the case for how ridiculous it is.

Now, get back to watching reruns of "Two and a Half Men", and leave humor to the professionals, please.

That is all.

Adding: Maybe one of the reasons some people don't find this funny is that they BELIEVE the Obamas are terrorists, so there is no humor in mocking that belief? Or is it that we are afraid to take on stupid beliefs by mocking them for being as stupid as they truly are?