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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
blog: New York Post’s Offensive Cartoon
The New York Post always goes for sensation, for outrage, for humor on its covers and more than not it hits mark.
But on page 12 of today’s paper, the cartoon by Sean Delonas is nothing but offensive.
Playing off the news of the day — the pet chimpanzee that had to be shot dead after it mauled the woman friend of its owner — the cartoon shows two cops, one with his gun drawn, standing over a dead chimp.
As the one cop looks down at the animal that’s lying in a pool of blood with three bullet holes in him and his tongue hanging out, he says:
“They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
Rush Limbaugh saying he hopes President Barack Obama fails is one thing, but this is another.
The way I read it, it’s flat out racist.
View the cartoon for yourself.
Maybe they’ll try to say it means something else — that everyone interprets things differently — but the newspaper is already drawing protesters to its offices and it should.
This story will continue to grow as the day goes on.
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