Since I Cannot Form My Own Opinion

Recently, the blogfather had this to say about the recent dust up over the New Yorker cover. Wasnt there a Seinfeld where Elaine does something for that magazine? And the whole time, George and Jerry are saying that the cartoons are never funny because they make no sense? I guess I sort of thought that same way about the cover. My thoughts were pretty solidified as I read this article on my lunch break(all day) in the office today. Though that website tends to sway to the right hand side of the dial, it is a pretty good piece. You have to get a bit down the page before it starts to get good. You know, there is the usual lefty bashing, and a reference to facists at the end, but there is this quote...

In any case, those about whom the outraged presumably are most concerned are: (1) unlikely to pick up a New Yorker; (2) unlikely to be swayed or disabused of their preconceptions. So what exactly are they worried about?...
That yahoos just passing by a newsstand will see those images and have their paranoid suspicions confirmed?

Yes, Ill admit that it is a bit racist, and upon first glance, plays on all of the aformentioned fears. But come on, the guy doesnt wear a flag pin...just kidding. It is safe to assume that they would publish a cover with McCain curled up in his cell in the Hanoi Hilton being fed a plate of viagra with his cellmate the offshore oil rig. In which case, we would hear the same whining and crying from the so-called intellectual elite in this article, except it would be from the other side. In all, I guess I am not smart enough to get the satire in the cover, but that doesnt mean that it isnt funny to smart people. This lady seems to think that if we start to become outraged at any attempt at humor that we dont get, that is even more frightening. I mean, what is safe humor? I know that "man getting hit in the nuts with football" is funny on many different levels, but getting angry at any type of humor that is insulting to anyone?? Look at South Park. That show has to be catching, if it hasnt already, some of the longest running shows on TV. And they routinly rail on everything. If that is the way it is going to be, I may as well take my toaster in the bath right now.