They didn't have the balls to actually indict anyone in their satire.
This is the thing that pisses up off to no end. The Obama's New Yorker Mag Cover fails to lay blame for the crappy right wing logic it tries to satirize.
Worse, the New Yorker WOULD NEVER put a crazed, unstable POW McCain, a Keating Jet and his a pill-stealing, pill-popping wife on the cover. (least we criticize McSame's patriotism.)