Regarding political satire

I've seen the New Yorker cover that portrays Obama as a towel-headed muslim and his wife as a terrorist.

My only problem with this is that some people will believe it. Of course, it doesn't help my already poor opinion of the magazine, either. They're pandering to a bigoted and racist base, but I won't be one to tell them they can't publish the cover, or say any damn thing they please. But people is really ignorant, and some will believe the most fantastical things imaginable. Who's to say this won't be one of them? Obama is some kind of America-hating muslim? Sure, why not.

Behind his "outrage," I'm sure McCain is chuckling. He can't buy this much good publicity for the negative racial stereotypes I'm quite sure he'd like to nail to the foreheads of the Obamas.