DO YOU HAVE TO LET IT LINGER? "Smartypants magazine editor to CNN: If Comedy Central can do it, why can't we? That was a good part of New Yorker editor David Remnick's argument to Wolf Blitzer about the controversy the current issue of the magazine has whipped up by portraying Barack Obama and his wife as a couple of gun-slinging, bin Laden-loving terrorists on its cover. Remnick likened what the magazine has done to what 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' do every weeknight on television. He said the point of the cover was to satirize the many right-wing rumors and innuendoes that have spread virally about the Democratic candidate."

Quite a weird weekend for Democratic golden boy Barack Obama.

First, it was revealed that this ghastly thing at right is the new New Yorker cover. If you can't believe your eyes, let us assure you that that is indeed an armed, camouflaged Michelle Obama fist-bumping her Muslim-garbed husband in front of a portrait of Osama bin Laden and a burning American flag. Yes, of course: satire! But it's like: come on.

Then, venerable McLaughlin Group namesake John McLaughlin posed this question to his roundtable:

Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo — a black on the outside, a white on the inside — that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

Wellllllllllllll. Reminder: This wasn't Fox News, but one of America's most famous political programs. This was a group of revered pundits sitting around debating whether or not Obama is an "Oreo."

And everyone's so confused when black Americans don't vote.