This is the headline of the summer:

Remnick Defends Obama Cover, Idea That Readers Aren’t Retards

And this is the line of the summer, from Pareene at Gawker, about the “tasteless and offensive” cartoon (or possible “anti-Obama propaganda”) that is making a fool of nearly*** everyone on cable “news” tonight:

This obvious and heavy-handed satire has enraged Democrats and liberal media critics because now they are pretty sure this nation of child-like imbeciles will believe it to be an un-retouched photograph from the FUTURE.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the FUTURE:

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*** Everyone except Jesse Ventura, bless him, who just told Larry King (I’m paraphrasing) that we live in the era of free speech, and everyone remembers Larry Flynt took his case to the Supreme Court and won for his magazine’s satires of Jerry Falwell, and the First Amendment is there to protect offensive speech because inoffensive speech doesn’t need protecting.

Go, Jesse, go!