A preemptive stirke against hand-wringing (or making lemonade out of lemons)

This is probably a futile effort, and I am a bit surprised I am making the effort (second diary total in 3+ years here), but here goes.  I know a lot of people are upset by the New Yorker cover.  Personally, I found it neither offensive nor tasteless.  But I did wonder if the satire would be properly understood and if it would help or hurt Obama's campaign.  However, since the cartoon is out there, let's make the best of it and finish what they started.  Instead of endlessly berating the New Yorker, let's go back to berating the idiot right wingers who started these stupid rumors about Obama in the first place as well as the media outlets (and Joe Lieberman) that pick them up and mindlessly repeat them.  

So whaddya say, can we make lemonade out of lemons here?