The New York Post Chimp Contraversy
 

Just when you've had enough of Bush being portrayed as a primate, the New York Post publishes yet another chimp cartoon.

From the Huffington Post
New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate

http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:...cartoon460.jpg

I just saw Al Sharpton being interviewed in what will likely be a bigger contraversy than the New Yorker cartoon last July.

By the way, who turned my music off?

Its already front page news in London.

From The Guardian Unlimited
New York Post in racism row over chimpanzee cartoon

African-American activist Al Sharpton claims newspaper may have portrayed Barack Obama using racist imagery

From the Guardian's Comment is Free
That cartoon

The New York Post cartoon depicting Barack Obama as a chimpanzee is far less shocking than it is pathetic


"At the same time, I do think something's changed since 2001, or before (I remember another racially appalling Delonas cartoon about a scandal-plagued New York City housing commissioner named Laura Blackburne, but I won't even go into that because it will only age me)."

I thought that Bush was a chimp

and that Germans were Gorillas

http://www.learn-ict.org.uk/projects...s/madbrute.jpg

I would not say that I am sure that Obama was talking about Sara Palin when he referred to "putting lipstick on a pig": and it is also plausible enough that the cartoon (as was claimed) simply meant nothing more than: "the Stimulus Package is so bad that 'even a chimp could have written it". O.K. go ahead - call me gullible. (LOL)

And for the Chimp: I say blame the xanex.http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/rolleyes.png

NEWS ARTICLE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7087194/

The term "racism" is being watered down yet again. The cartoon analogy wasn't very good, IMO, and somewhat tasteless, but given the recent Chimpanzee story in the news, it was at least timely, and gave it perspective. I took it to mean the chimp represented the congress who wrote the bill, not the President in general. Are all cartoonists now going to have to over-analyze their work prior to submission to ensure that no charges of racism, sexism (or any other "ism" you can think of) can be levied? Will the Reverend Al be consulted to proofread all future cartoons and editorial pieces?

Frankly, the only ones who should be offended by this stupid cartoon are chimpanzees.

THAT CARTOON

From the New York Post

"To them, no apology is due. Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else."

A recurrent theme in Sean Delonas' cartoons is overweight people.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...1_delonas9.jpghttp://www.topsocialite.com/wp-conte...sixcartoon.jpg


Here's the artist
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/3...b78ebe.jpg?v=0

Red-X on the artist... It may be me blocked..... (will check at home).

Ed Shultz says that Murdoch must pay

Good luck dude, coz the Irish, the Germans, the Japanese, and just about everyone else have been likened to apes.

Go to Japan today and see what you are likened to.

And what about the lipstick on a pig?

Whos the pig now?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NPeIdlHaoa...400/shanty.jpg

Any Irish WNYers here wanna sue for 4 billion dollars?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/phot...968_apes_3.jpg

These guys say:

The cartoon is offensive to those who think that Obama wrote the bill.

But wasnt it Pelosi?

Bush was depicted as chimp, I wonder how many times. This comes close but there are chimp cartoons.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag...4/19/bell1.jpg

No, it was gone. Too bad; it was the point of the post.

Re-entered, and it's back.

gone again now ...

^I still see it just fine?!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...ellbell512.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...-on-ne-001.jpg

^
Those are real political cartoons.

Yeah, according to you.

Heck, why not just run the world according to you. Given your record as a mod, maybe even Mao would blush.

Its not about you.

Its about the reader.

WTF ^ ???

Personally I find both of those last two images to be mildly intriguing -- but completely unclear in what they are saying.