As someone who wrote "Getting Whitey: Michelle Obama's Secret Negro Agenda" satirizing the right's twisted vision of the aspiring black first couple, I understand what New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt was trying to accomplish with his now-notorious cover art. However, he did it poorly, and in doing so, he advanced the point-of-view he tried to satirize instead of deflating it.
In his own defense, Blitt told Huffpo's Nico Pitney:
I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic...
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