This morning, I caught the headlines on the Today show before I packed the kids up for camp. Brangelina spawn. Miley McSlutty. And the New Yorker cover.

When Matt Lauer described the furor and showed the image, I rolled my eyes. Big deal, I thought. Lauer seemed to think it was all about selling magazines. I thought, New Yorker humor, but pretty obvious and probably wouldn’t raise an eyebrow when it showed up in the mail. I would just skim the contents for an Anthony Lane review and then plop it on the coffee table.

Most bloggers agreed with me.

Yeah, the ruckus hasn’t died down. CNN grilled David Remnick this afternoon. And he was all like "satire, people." And Wolf Blitzer was like, "no, hate mongery. People won’t get your humor." And then they found the dumbest people in America and showed them the cover and sure enough, they didn’t get it.

This nonsense is starting to tick me off.
Do we have to run all political humor past a focus groups of dumb people to make sure they get it?