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Rupert Murdoch Nails Chimp Cartoon Apology
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAfter reading Caleb's excellent story on the subject, I promised readers that I was going to weigh in on the NY Post chimp cartoon, and solve the debate once and for all.As it turns out, I no longer have to do it. Rupert Murdoch, in a rare example of any public figure getting this right, completely nailed it in his apology on the Post's pages:As the Chairman of the New York Post, I am ultimately responsible for what is printed in its pages. The buck stops with me. Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who ...
NY Post 'Apologizes' for Chimp Cartoon
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyAfter internal discord, thousands of phone calls to the newsroom, canceled subscriptions and a demonstration in front of their building today, the NY Post has posted what it is calling an apology - or what passes for apologies anymore. A "we're sorry you're offended" apology for the cartoon published yesterday depicting two white cops shooting a chimpanzee while referring to the stimulus bill. On the opinion page and entitled "That Cartoon" here reads the heart-rending exculpation:Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created ...
Murdoch Sucker-Punches Clinton
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCall it the inevitable reward of a Faustian bargain, but right now Hillary Clinton must be seething. Yesterday, Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid, The Post, endorsed Barack Obama for the democratic nomination. In true Post fashion, the column did not mince words:Obama represents a fresh start. Her opponent, and her husband, stand for deja vu all over again--a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency. Does America really want to go through all that once again? It will--if Sen. Clinton becomes ...
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