It is tragic and rather pathetic, if the New Yorker from their cover page wants to have their share of satire from the next president of the United States by posing him and his family as terrorists.  

Particularly, at a point of time when thousands of Americans have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and others are loosing their houses and jobs on an everyday basis, it would be quite absurd to think that humor would be the best medicine for all of them. Unfortunately, it is that very mode of thinking that often divides this country into blue and red, and cuts the elite from the rest of America. For once, they need to understand that America needs more than a Laurel or Hardy to set its conditions right. I am sure if humor was all that the American people needed, Colbert would have replaced Obama and jokers would have replaced politicians.