Burning flags, Osama Bin Laden, Turbans, AK-47’s and Obama’s terrorist fist jab are all featured in this sure-to-be-controversial cover of The New Yorker. The artist behind the cartoon said he is trying to satirize the baseless scaremongering used against Obama; That didn’t stop the campaign from calling it “tasteless and offensive.”

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1. “It’s difficult to see this as anything other than […] satire,” Says Steven Heller, Renowned Design Critic
2. Yikes!
3. New Yorker Editor David Remnick Responds: It’s Satire
4. “… most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”
5. Obama Has Yet to Be Defined in Comedic Terms
6. “The New Yorker would like to inform readers that the above depiction is supposed to be funny.”
7. This is All Way, Way Overblown