By Patricia Lee Sharpe The New Yorker depicting the Obamas as terrorists? Having criticized the bombing of the Buddhist statues in Bamiyan and having also written that those Danish cartoons must be tolerated in the name of free speech, even if many Muslims found them blasphemous, I found myself reading reports of the latest New Yorker cover with dismay. No way could I advocate censorship on racist or religious grounds. I couldn’t advocate apologies from the editors either, not even for bad judgement. And I certainly couldn’t ask for a hiatus in distribution. So the ox was being gored, and I had to smile, even though it hurt. If people didn’t get the joke—and I have to admit that the so-called satire came across as pretty opaque to this person who cherishes her weekly dose of New Yorker humor, what would happen to the...
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