OK, the New Yorker cartoon was a little over the top. They should have kept it inside the magazine, where only their "sophisticated" readership would have seen it. The very least they could have done is put the title on the cover: "The Politics of Fear." But you know what? John Stewart-- and Barack Obama-- are right... in the end, it's only a cartoon. And anybody who thought that Mohammed was fair game in Denmark should definitely shut their proverbial hole. But the oft-overlooked point is that, once again, the real "offendees" are American Muslims-- a point Obama did make in the WSJ's Washington Wire:
You know, this is actually an insult against Muslim-Americans, something that we don’t spend a lot of time talking about. And sometimes I’ve been derelict in pointing that out.
Yes, he has-- but in his defense, others further away from the political cross-hairs should be filling that void as well.
