What’s the big freakin’ deal?

Media outlets everywhere are declaring their outrage over this New Yorker cover, which depicts Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim, his wife in militant garb, a flag burning in the fireplace and a picture of Osama Bin Laden hanging on the wall.  More subtly, the two are giving each other a “terrorist fist jab” as FOX news likes to call it.

Which brings me to the point:  The media has regularly helped push all of these rumors through their sensationalist reporting of trivialities.  If these supposedly respectable news organizations had avoided giving so much airtime to such idiotic allegations, perhaps so many people wouldn’t have been inclined to believe them when they saw them in their inboxes.  But these same fucking people in the media are absolutely freaking out about how “irresponsible” this cover is.  Of course, the story inside the magazine is actually about the way this smear-machine has helped wrongly perpetuate the rumors illustrated on the cover.

If the New Yorker was irresponsible, it’s only because the majority of Americans who already believe these rumors are too stupid to actually read the article.  But then…what’s the real damage caused in that case?  A bunch of morons continue being morons because they literally judge a book by its cover?

In any case, the cartoon has inadvertently (or with brilliant foresight?) done exactly what it was supposed to do.  In the end, the insanely huge amount of backlash has pushed their message (along with an explanation of their intent) in front of every news camera in the fucking nation.  The New Yorker has done more to point out what a terrorist Obama isn’t than anyone yet.