NY Post Cartoon Called Racist

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NY Post Cartoon Called Racist
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Thu, 02-19-2009 - 9:32am

No kidding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lixhw85M4I8

The cartoon appeared 18-2-2009.
http://www.nypost.com/delonas/delonas.htm

'New York Post' Cartoonist's Monkey Image Not His First Offense

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003942344

NEW YORK Looks like cartoonist Sean Delonas has some explaining to do.

A political cartoon appearing on p. 12 of the New York Post on Wednesday and on its Web site likens the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps a racial reference to President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee. In the cartoon, two policemen holding guns stand over the dead, bleeding body of the ape (a nod to the chimp that attacked a woman earlier this week in Stamford, Conn., before it was killed).

The caption reads, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

This is not the first time Delonas’ work has drawn fire. On June 17, 2008, Alan Gardner pointed out on his blog, The Daily Cartoonist, that the cartoonist had turned in a nearly identical cartoon to one that had been previously published on April 6. Then-Politicker.com editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe, now an E&P contributor, was the first to call attention to that cartoon.

On that occasion, Gardner wrote, “Where are the Editors on this stuff? Do they find the fact that someone they pay to draw cartoons thinks he can mirror his own work and turn it in for the day? You see things like this, you look at the identical and predictable cartoons being drawn every day and editorial cartoonists wonder why we’re getting laid off.”

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Photobucket&nbs

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 02-19-2009 - 11:52am

I saw this 'cartoon' on the news this a.m.


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Registered: 01-14-2008
Thu, 02-19-2009 - 3:41pm

Since it was Pelosi and her gang that wrote the stimulus bill not Obama, the cartoon makes more sense.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Thu, 02-19-2009 - 3:53pm

A most distorted viewpoint.

 


Photobucket&nbs

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 02-19-2009 - 5:41pm

Excuse me, but I saw the actual newspaper...just a couple pages in front of the op-ed cartoon was a big picture of Pres. Obama signing the stimulus bill.


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Registered: 04-05-2002
Thu, 02-19-2009 - 7:55pm
It is difficult having a discussion with someone who cannot distinguish, or worst,





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Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 02-20-2009 - 6:02am
You're correct it's "not worth the time". I have never used the "ignore" feature on this board but it's time I did.

 


Photobucket&nbs

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 02-20-2009 - 6:09am

>"The paper posted a statement on its Web site under the heading "That Cartoon" reiterating its support for the cartoon's content, while apologizing "to those who were offended by the image."

But the paper wasn't so charitable to its real or perceived enemies in the media or "in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past."

"To them, no apology is due," the piece said."<


Article at......


NY Post apologizes for chimp cartoon - sort of


http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-popost206042290feb20,0,4987794.story


 


Photobucket&nbs

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Registered: 05-23-2008
Fri, 02-20-2009 - 6:26pm

That is because they are very stupid.