I'm not going to bother mentioning the "offending" incident (a google and a glance will pretty much catch you up to speed) but, needless to say, there are many a gleeful conservative chittering out there on the intarwebs about the New Yorker.
I'd say "Republicans" instead of "conservatives" but these days conservatives call themselves "Independents" (that just won't vote Democrat no matter what) while patiently waiting for Bush to leave office and for people to disassociate corruption, mortgage crisises, government mishandling, military misjudgement and general sexual hypocrisy on their favorite brand-- essentially, in 4 years when the old school Democrats fuck it up. Again (4 years? Hell, let's face it, with this FISA bill and the inability to stand up to a hated lame-duck President, it'll be some time in the next 9 months).
These conservative friends of yours are going to say a lot of funny, confusing things-- things like, "Well, if they showed McCain as an old man drooling like a latter-day Reagan (too soon?), there wouldn't BE any controversy (except, of course, McCain really IS old so it's not actually a lie)." And, more likely than not, they're going to use the words "Politically Correct."
Continue on for a basic guide to a confusing idea....
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