Several of you, stop and think what you are saying: Smart people can't poke ironic fun at stupid ideas because stupid people won't understand it and it will confirm their stupid ideas. They might act based upon their stupid ideas because this cartoon appeared.

Duh. There's no excuse for stupid ideas except mindless media, an incompetent education system, and parents who aren't paying attention to teach critical thinking skills when they raise children to one day be responsible civic-minded adults. This is no reason for everyone else to stop having intelligent conversations and to not practice highly visible illustrations to poke fun at those stupid ideas.

Did you think The New Yorker was ever going to change their minds? That if they saw a kinder and gentler Obama cartoon on the cover, they'd warm up and vote for him?

These arguments are circular logic, and amount to a Tempest in a Teapot.

SRS