By referring to--- as "tasteless and offensive---" the New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in the most unflatterng terms, the Obama campaign could'nt have been more charitable to the once acclaimed and respected magazine that is now trying to boost its sluggish circulation by appealling to the most racist sentiments of the Republican Right. The New Yorker is stooping so low, and driven by its commercial considerations in highlighting a storyline that has the effect of advancing the Republican political narrative designed to portray the Obamas as unpatriot and sympathetic to terrorists. This insidious and incendiary, as well as inflamatory political caricature by the New Yorker artist Barry Blitt, masquerading as a constructive satire is nothing short pandering to the basest instincts of the Right and smacks of outright racism characterizing the political culture of the Republican Party and Conservative Movement.