It's quite simple, really. The New Yorker cover would have gotten exactly five seconds of MSM time if Obama's camp simply shrugged it off. But by making it a "controversy", now the MSM is discussing it non-stop. Why, even Shafer spent his extraordinarily valuable time discussing it (instead of, say, completely fucking up the analysis of war coverage or some other obvious goofdom.

So now, the MSM has a "race horse handicapping" excuse to highlight the absurdity of the Obama is a Muslim rumors, until anyone associated with them is deemed to be a fruitcake.

Fucking duh, Shafer. You can't even distinguish real outrage for tactical faux-outrage. And they pay you for this crap?

No wonder the country is going down the shitter.

But,