Is the New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama effective satire?

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Alan Augustson
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. Regardless the artist's intentions, it was tasteless and offensive. The artist should have anticipated that the majority would not get whatever-was-supposed-to-be-the-point.
	8/3/2008 6:30:50 PM

Jason Zengerle
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "The New Yorker assumes everyone knows it's being ironic with its cover..."
	8/3/2008 1:31:06 PM

James Joyner
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "I do, however, think it will achieve its desired effects."
	7/31/2008 11:45:10 AM

Ezra Klein
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "Anyone who didn't get the joke would be left looking at a caricatured illustration, not a believable image of Obama gripping bin-Laden's portrait"
	7/31/2008 11:23:59 AM

James Poniewozik
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "Judging the cover as a cover is pretty easy by me: it's a pretty obvious and dumb stunt..."
	7/30/2008 4:00:07 PM

Tom Watson (journalist)
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "Silly me. I thought that well-executed absurdity in literature or art helped to illuminate the foolishness of its subject..."
	7/30/2008 3:52:53 PM

The Blade
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "Those who are most outraged fear that the humor will be lost on too many readers who don't understand satire. That's selling the American public short."
	7/28/2008 2:31:15 AM

Greg Gutfeld
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "The cartoon reflects the argument/armor that protects their candidate from criticism"
	7/26/2008 3:58:38 PM

Cenk Uygur
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "Mocking in an obvious way"
	7/25/2008 4:09:20 PM

Al Gore
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "I thought that was way too far over the top"
	7/24/2008 11:33:47 PM

Gary Kamiya (journalist)
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "A satirical drawing is a satirical drawing"
	7/24/2008 10:11:32 PM

Chris Matthews
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "It‘s offensive, say both the Obama and McCain campaigns. And I agree."
	7/24/2008 10:09:15 AM

Hendrik Hertzberg
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "satiric exercise must be considered... somewhat less than completely successful."
	7/24/2008 10:00:43 AM

Lee Siegel
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. We're Not Laughing at you, or With You
	7/24/2008 9:59:56 AM

Sylvester Brown Jr.
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. It was political satire at its best.
	7/21/2008 12:16:40 PM

Leonard Pitts
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "As absurd, as over the top, as utterly outlandish as the New Yorker image strikes the more sophisticated among us, there is a large fringe out there for whom it will represent nothing more or less than the sum of their fears."
	7/18/2008 4:50:21 PM

Bill Press
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is effective satire. "It makes a great point. Which is to show how ridiculous are all those rumors circulating on the Internet about Barack Obama being a Muslim"
	7/18/2008 4:48:54 PM

David Paterson
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "malignant and vicious"
	7/18/2008 11:29:07 AM

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean-spirited and racially offensive."
	7/18/2008 10:15:05 AM

Arizona Daily Star
	The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire. "Sorry, if you have to explain the satire, it's not effective"
	7/17/2008 6:17:58 PM