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Artist Jorge Colombo has impressed many with his drawings created on his iPhone (by way of the Brushes application. Now, his drawing of a 42nd Street hot dog stand is this week's New Yorker cover. Colombo tells the New Yorker he "painted" the cover while standing outside Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum for an hour.

In its roundup of the top ten media blunders of 2008, Politico's Michael Calderone puts the New Yorker "Politics of Fear" cover at #8 (between the mainstream media's reluctance to acknowledge the National Enquirer's reports of John Edwards' affair and how VP guessing was out of control). Calderone writes, "The Zabar’s set were in on the joke. But some didn’t see the humor in the illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama sharing a terrorist fist-jab and dressed, respectively, as a Muslim and Angela Davis-style black radical, with an Osama bin Laden painting on the mantle and an AK-47 leaning against the fireplace, in which burned the American flag." But he adds that, after the uproar, things ended up okay: "[New Yorker writer] Lizza and editor David Remnick — whose excellent piece on Obama in the same issue was largely overlooked in the ensuing dustup — are working on books dealing with Obama." Plus, Obama won.

Just when you thought the New Yorker Obama cover controversy had started to die down, along comes Governor David Paterson to fan the American flag-fueled flames. At an NAACP gathering earlier today, Paterson strongly condemned the illustration, calling it "one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen… They knew it would hurt people; it was designed to do that and also to feed the prurient interest of bigoted, prejudiced people in this society.” Not to be outdone, the NAACP released a statement decrying the illustration as "tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive."

Barack Obama appeared on Larry King Live last night and topic number 1 was the New Yorker cover. You can read the transcript here, but Obama said, "I know it was the "New Yorker's" attempt at satire. I don't think they were entirely successful with it. But you know what, it's a cartoon, Larry, and that's why we've got the First Amendment. And I think the American people are probably spending a little more time worrying about what's happening with the banking system and the housing market, and what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, than a cartoon." Well, we can all hope.