Shame on The New Yorker

I have not yet received my copy of this week's edition of The New Yorker, but already I don't like it. The outcries in the media over the cover illustration have caused quite a controversy.

The drawing depicts Barack Obama dressed up in Muslim garb, along with his wife Michelle sporting an automatic rifle draped over her shoulder. A photo of Osama bin Laden rests above the fireplace.

Apparently, a New Yorker staff member explained to ABC News that the cartoon "is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create."

And that is how I interpreted it.

But I do think it's in very bad taste. I had thought that The New Yorker was above that kind of thing. I am disappointed.