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Miscaricaturization

Did we overreact to the New Yorker's controversial Obama art? Cartoonists weigh in.
July 20, 2008

Unless you've been living in a cave with a certain Muslim terrorist, you've had your chance to be outraged, offended or amused by last week's New Yorker magazine cover. But was the whole turban disturbance blown out of distortion? Was the burning flag really so incendiary, or Michelle Obama's cover-girl camo cameo such a dress-down? Was Conde Nast really condescending and nasty? Apparently Tom Toles thought so. David Horsey offered the opposition a fair-and-balanced alternative. (We distort, you deride.) And I tried my best to mimic the magazine's signature dry wit. The New Yorker ... my kind of toon.

-- Joel Pett









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