NY Post 'Apologizes' for Chimp Cartoon

yeah, as it turns out rupert murdock is a fan of obama.
rupert also needs to keep his fcc waiver or he's in violation of media laws.
though how he kept his american citizenship after he became a turkish citizen is still a mystery.

We're in for 4 VERY LONG years if everyone jumps on the Al Sharpton 'Racism' bandwagon every time a joke is made about the president. God help the writers of The Tonight Show and David Letterman....

king of france you idiot

All you liberal nitwits can kiss my ass ! So Obama looks like a chimp. Big Deal ! It's not the end of the world that your leader and Messiah has Simian characteristics. His Simian characteristics are not as pronounced as his wife's, due to the fact his mother was white. So at least you can take some solace in that.

How can one Black person bitch about this if President Obama hasn't said a word? Wherever Al Sharpton goes the circus come to town. I for one and sick of it. If all it takes is the word "Monkey" to keep Blacks down, then we are our worst enemies. I know I'm nobody's Monkey and this cartoon was funny. It was in bad taste, but controversy sells papers. Get over it! Blacks have the President and Attorney General isn't that enough power not to fall to your knees? Stop hiding behind the clowns that profit off race.

All you liberal nitwits can kiss my ass ! So Obama looks like a chimp. Big Deal ! It's not the end of the world that your leader and Messiah has Simian characteristics. His Simian characteristics are not as pronounced as his wife's, due to the fact his mother was white. So at least you can take some solace in that.

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Let me guess. Your mom and dad were related BEFORE they were married, right?

So, you into Tester's or Rustoleum?

Of course they're a**hats, Denise, but they are the Post, after all. And Col Allan sticks around as long as he wants (as he already has, through far worse "controversy" than this), because he's doing exactly what Murdoch wants him to. Or did you somehow think that this sort of stuff doesn't sell papers?

Or if you want to attribute even more devious motives to him, maybe Murdoch needs the Post to be *more* obnoxious, buffoonish, etc., now, so that the WSJ will still seem "respectable" by comparison even after he's done transforming it.

The speculation this time is that Allen and Murdoch don't see eye to eye.

The editor of Vanity Fair on Olbermann said he thought this would be back to Oz for Allen. He also mentioned that Murdoch is getting more liberal in his old age.

There may be a makeover at Fox sometime before long. I don't think it would sell, but it could not be put past rupert to flip the station to liberal.

Perhaps most of us really just don't remember when blacks were commonly referred to as monkeys, though some people do say there was a time and still is in some places.

Now about anyone that has done something we consider stupid is depicted as a monkey, Congress, Bush, multiple others. So it gets down to even if it had been intended to be taken as Obama it could easily have been because he was referring to Obama as now in Bush's position, not because of Obama's race. Just being realistic, comic writers are not going to depict the President as being gunned down by two police officers, for all kind of reasons, so I really do not believe it was Obama.


Re: Murdoch - dual citizenship. Even the watered down dual citizenship laws of the US that do still exist are seldom if ever enforced anymore. There is nothing exceptional in Murdoch having dual citizenship, quite a few people in the US have dual citizenship, most probably with Mexico if you think about it.

It would have been a universally funny cartoon 'cept fot the the stupid caption. the editor was not asleep at the wheel. he wanted all this hoopla because he is an a**hat and his boss demands it. if it was just about the stimulus pkg the cartoon would have said it all. RABID RIGHT RACISM

Win, naivety will get you no cookies, man

win,
I was hoping someone would bring up an old law that's only used for technicalities these days.
thanks for seconding the motion by lumping him in with the other illegal aliens.
but seriously,
if your monkey had mauled your best friend,
wouldn't you want something to focus attention elsewhere.
it's practically an act of god.

The cartoon is meant to portay Congress as chimps, not Pres. Obama. Pres. Obama DID NOT write the stimulus bill, Congress did. The political opportunists such as Sharpton and others have twisted the orignal meaning to fit their hidden agenda in order to apply the "divide and conquer " principle to the country in order to control folks. Al Sharpton and company are usurping the President's Office and power. When folks like Sharpton create racism where none exists, then it lends credibility to Eric Holder's claim that Americans are cowards for not discussing race due to claims such as Sharpton's which feed upon itself in a self perpetuated cycle because Americans are intimidated into NOT discussing race due to hidden agendas like Sharpton's.

That apology is kinda like saying, "Sorry I forgot to wear a condom."

Cecil Jones10:38PMFeb 19th 2009

How can one Black person bitch about this if President Obama hasn't said a word?


President Obama has not said anything about this because he was in Canada all day meeting with Canadian Officials.

and the best part is, there was never any need for the apology as it had nothing at all to do with the
Big ZERO.

HE DID NOT WRITE THE GRAND SPENDING PACKAGE.

Painter paints a picture of an Artic scene with snow, ice and a couple of polar bears. Al Sharpton complains that the picture is "racist" because there are no African-Americans in it. Would you agree? Or are you a "racist" claiming to be smarter than an African-American?

You mean that all those years I called Bush a chimp I was making a racial reference?

The spending bill, code name "Stimulus Bill", was authored by David Obey, a Democrat from Wisconsin- along with help from Pelosi and Reid. The only contribution Obama! made was his signature.

Why would anyone with any common sense take Al Sharpton seriously?

Freedom comes at a cost. Its one's right to disagree with someone's elses idea but we should all defend everyone's right to express their ideas. countries like China , Iran and Russia execute people for expression. Be glad we all live in a country where we are allowed the freedom of speech.