Obama’s campaign is offended again.  (OMG!)

I just picked this up from the from the Concord monitor online.  It’s the latest cover of the New Yorker on which “radical positions” appear projected upon a caricature of the Obama’s–presumably in the living room of their posh Hyde Park domicile–asperhaps a parody of their real politics of meaning™?  Yes, that’s an American flag burning in the fireplace.

As this is the New Yorker I have to assume this is a parody of right wing concerns deigned to make the Right look like chicken-littles. 

 But it’s no surprise they are put-off.  But being offended is the one campaign ritual which Senator Obama has not had to come out and contradict.

…spokesman, Bill Burton, said: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” Burton said. “But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

This cartoon has not sparked rioting among the faithful, and no American lives are believed to be in danger. (Not yet anyway)

Of course Mc Cain was offended as well.  …calling it “totally inappropriate, and frankly I understand if Senator Obama and his supporters would find it offensive.”

Are we all turning into a bunch of pansies?

My favorite line comes from NYC Mayor Bloomberg who said even humorists need to be careful.

“We all have to watch very carefully what we say – our attempts at humor, our attempts at informing people – because some of what we say can be misinterpreted and do real damage,” he said.

A celebrity describing the President and his policies with F-bombs in public can’t be misinterpreted so that kind of speech is acceptable?  Is that political speech? 

So is this.  Get over it.