Disparate views of New Yorker's cartoon.(Main)

More on The New Yorker magazine cover mocking the misperceptions of Sen. Barack Obama:

The prissy tone of dudgeon from the Obama campaign was a relatively well-pitched political twofer: It distinguished them from the New Yorker and its untouchable demographic (educated, literate, well-informed people from New York or New York-ish enclaves) and it gave them a news cycle on the high ground of victimization, defensively crouched against credulous souls misreading the New Yorker in coal mines, truck stops and smoky saloons.

- Philip Kennicott,

Washington Post

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