Dept. Of Tiresome Outrage: The New Yorker Obama Cover

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 Dept. Of Tiresome Outrage: The New Yorker Obama Cover
According to the stock opening lines of many hack journalists and bloggers, "critics" are "outraged" over today's New Yorker cover, which lards up a portrait of Michelle and Barack Obama with nearly every stereotype the Obamas face. (Well, they are not [link]

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