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The New Yorker Fails at Satire Again

The New Yorker Fails at Satire AgainIn the wake of last week's Obama cover scandal/satire, "this week's cover depicts a bunch of affluent whites carousing while their crustacean dinner escapes through the kitchen window... Clearly this is a veiled attack against the Jews. In this case, the humanoid character with the Semitic nose (on the right) is shown drinking some sort of red wine... red wine does not go with lobster." [Joshua David Stein]

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