The New Yorker cover is satire according to Mr. Webster.

[BuyingThyme]

satire
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trenchant

[skooooo]

1. Was there a question?

[BuyingThyme]

2. May I direct you to the top of the Greatest page...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6496698

[baldguy]

3. Correction: it is an *attempt* at satire.

And an unsuccessful one at that.

[Youphemism]

4. Yeah. The best satire is the stuff you have to go on national TV to explain...

"No, see, the llama represents man's inhumanity to man, and the bus driver -- the despair of the plight for recognition in a technologically advanced society -- is *feeding* the llama carrots, which are, of course, both phallic and promote good vision, which is the way to see past our mortality and achieve the heroic status of becoming an ubermensch which, naturally, a llama could never be -- so it's funny, in a sharply ironic sort of way. Get it?"

I love it when people say that satire isn't supposed to be funny. It's an easy way to identify people I never want to talk to at parties.

[AZBlue]

5. And it's the Obamas that are being satirized, not the media.

If the media were being satirized, they would have been included in the artwork. If that's ok with you, knock yourself out.