Through it all, credit to New Yorker editor David Remnick, and his colleague Hertzberg, for engaging, again and again, with the cartoon’s critics. This has been no fortress journalism, the-piece-speaks-for-itself lockdown. But that choice, too, has given this distracting controversy-that-shouldn’t-be more legs, further moving the spotlight from Lizza’s article.

And should Barack and Michelle Obama make it to the Oval Office, all the misplaced attention may be reason enough for a celebratory fist bump.

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