Obama May Not Laugh, But Some Newhouses Who Own The New Yorker Are Democrat Fans
OK, so maybe not everybody got the joke with The New Yorker cover. We at this blog (we're speaking in the Charlie Rose third-person voice again) -- happened to be atitter over the cartoon of Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. Maybe years ago, when Conde Nast chairman Si Newhouse's best friend, Roy Cohn, was alive, we might have thought this was all a political dirty trick.


As that famous philosopher Bette Midler says in the current issue of Vanity Fair, another Newhouse publication, "I say f-- 'em if they can't take a joke!"