Tom_Tildrum:

There are thousands of comments on Kos discussing the New Yorker cover. It's therefore a huge deal to one of Obama's core constitutencies, and I don't see how the candidate or the media could afford to ignore it.

They would if nobody got shitty about it. See, it seems that the MSM's criteria for coverage is the amount of heat being generated, not the amount of light. Thus, making a stink about something that Obama needs to inform people about ensures that the MSM will keep it in the spotlight long enough for their position to sink in.

If a slur occurs in a forest and nobody protests, does the MSM make a correction? And if the answer is no, then the New Yorker did what it intended-- gave Obama an opportunity to blast those stupid rumors.