Fresh controversy for Monday

The New Yorker's new cover is creating a stir.

I understand that it's satire and it's supposedly poking fun of the paranoid picture the right has painted of Obama.

But, picture a dozen or so of these staring back at you from a magazine rack and I can understand why the campaign is angry. It will just serve to reinforce that stereotype to the casual shopper who sees the cover, but doesn't bother to read the story (which isn't referenced anywhere on the front).

And, sadly, there are people out there who actually believe the image, as absurd as it is, is close to reality.