From the second I saw the New Yorker's cover on Obama-as-Muslim-terrorist, I knew it was a ticking time bomb. But when I reached David Remnick, the magazine's editor, over the weekend, he was in what's the big deal? mode. Obviously, he said, people would see that it was a sharp-edged satire. -
When Art Gives Offense
From the second I saw the New Yorker's cover on Obama-as-Muslim-terrorist, I knew it was a ticking time bomb. But when I reached David Remnick, the magazine's editor, over the weekend, he was in what's the big deal? mode. Obviously, he said, people would see that it was a sharp-edged satire.-
By Howard Kurtz