"Yet, the reaction of our cultural elites is the more interesting and instructive.
For it suggests that Obama is an untouchable to be protected. As an African-American, he is not to be treated the same as other politicians. Remnick and Hertzberg obviously felt intense moral pressure to remove any suspicion that they had satirized the Obamas. No problem, however, if they were mocking the American right."
Meanwhile, if there are any adults on the left, they are not the ones living in San Fransisco where they may name a sewage treatment plant after Bush as an expression of their, um, bile.
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