[classicman]

All this attention to an inappropriate cover on a magazine that at best reaches 1,000,000 people has made more of this than anything. Are they "wacko extremists" at The New Yorker - I don't think so. Has their cover altered my perception of Obama? No!
I believe the vast majority of those who read that mag understand it was nothing more than it was - a stupid cover - ill-advised, inappropriate and distasteful. Let the damn thing die.

All the media attention to this and the real "wacko extremists" who pontificate here and elsewhere about it are the ones that are making a bigger issue out of it than anything. It has nothing to do with a grand conspiracy or Iran or anything else. It was a bad decision to publish it - and I hope they lose readers because of it. Yes, they got a lot of play out of it in the short term, but liong term it will not help them.