Protesters gathered outside the New York Post’s Manhattan office last night chanting “shut the Post down” after they claimed a cartoon in the tabloid compared President Obama to a chimpanzee.
The Post's Editor-in-Chief insists his cartoonist was simply mocking the authors of the fiscal stimulus Bill as no better than a team of trained monkeys. But the newspaper’s critics say Sean Delonas’s sketch was tantamount to calling for Barack Obama to be assassinated.
The Danes had this same problem when cartoons of Mohammed were published in a paper.
Is the cartoon offensive? More so to Travis the Now Deceased Chimp than anyone else . . . evolution aside, the animal is getting more bad press than deserved (yes, because he was a wild animal and like it or not, wild, undomesticated animals act on instinct and you cannot ascribe human morality to them) and probably does not to be compared to the authors of the Stimulus Bill.
But when I first saw it, I thought immediately of the old myth, if you place a thousand chimps in front of typewriters, eventually they will peck out the works of Shakespeare. In short, the message is, this bill was written by a bunch of freakin' monkeys. You know, like recent Career Builder commercials that show this poor sap working in an office full of chimps. Hey, we all laughed at that!
To say that it would make one jump to the conclusion that (a) the chimp represents Barack Obama and (b) it is a racist reference and (c) it calls for his assassination, only serves to show our new Attorney General, Eric Holder, is wrong - we are not a nation of cowards, we are a nation of idiots.
By the way, where were the protestors when cartoons like this were published?
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But you see, sensitive little Nobambi needs to be treated with kid gloves because he's a minority and you know how sensitive they are, they can't take it. [yes, the sarcasm filter was on, just in case some stupid people are reading this]
I get a big kick when people play the race card, when there's no need to play it...I know many African Americans have been treated horrible, but get over it dagnabbit.
What struck me about this was that I was under the impression that Congress wrote the stimulus bill. Not the President.
Comparing African-Americans to primates is stupid and bad. I get that. Buuut...in this case, I don't think that was what was going on.
Exactly, Joe. I'm pretty po'd that the first "minority" has such thin skin. I don't think the media would be playing this way, say if Condi Rice had gotten in. Then it would have been gloves off.
It's really reverse racism by liberals, and the worst is they have no idea they are doing it. It's like saying a Black man can't take the punches and rolls of politics as practised for the last zillion years.
"......I firmly believe that if we all woke up tomorrow morning the same size, shape, color, religion, and speaking the same language, we’d have social classes of some sort developed by lunchtime. If you really want to see prejudice at work, watch how little girls are treated in fundamentalist Islamic societies."
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