Remnick said that "the intent of the New Yorker cover was to set up Obama and his wife as terrorist supporters and to try and encourage rumours and misconceptions about the Obamas that have been invented by the AIPAC and are not as yet reflected in public opinion polls."

"What we set out to do was what we promised the AIPAC that we would do -throw all these images together, which are blatant propaganda and to shine a kind of harsh light on them. That’s part of what we do."

About one out of 10 Americans continue to believe that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is a Muslim, and we want that percentage to increase to 5 in 10.