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.â€
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.â€




I saw this 'cartoon' on the news this a.m.
Since it was Pelosi and her gang that wrote the stimulus bill not Obama, the cartoon makes more sense.
A most distorted viewpoint.
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.
>"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
That is because they are very stupid.