1.0 link 112632 <![CDATA[A Fist-Bump for the New Yorker]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcquaid/a-fist-bump-for-the-new-y_b_112632.html I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover.

The top-line objection is to accuse the New Yorker of poor taste. In the limited context of campaign discourse this is true. But magazines and other journalistic enterprises would be crazy to buy into the notion that abitrary etiquette of American campaigns (which encourages candidates...

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