By Kaira

February 25, 2009 5:48 AM | Link to this

Hmm, very cognitive post. Is this theme good unough for the Digg?

By Angellaa

February 23, 2009 9:13 PM | Link to this

Hmm, very cognitive post. Is this theme good unough for the Digg?

By Steve

February 20, 2009 10:19 AM | Link to this

I was on Yahoo this morning and they had a blurb about this issue. The more I read the more I realize that this was very racist (I am white btw) People like Wordell who blog here and espout their repugnican ignorance and bitterness to lossing the white house they have nothing but hate in their hearts. It is true that if the president fails we all fail. When we look at the white collar crooks of the world most are of republican background, they (the repugnicans) have destroyed this country the last eight years by tax breaking their rich buddies and screwing the middle class. We as a people (white people) lack the the experience of being truely discriminated against whereas African Americans still experience it to this day. The cartoonist HAD to know that this would draw fire but he and his editors decided to run it anyway. If it makes any sense Rupurt Murdoch owns the Post. He is very repugnican and he is not ashamed to admit it. He also owns Fox News, Very repugnican in their views. I was stationed in Germany in the mid 80’s and gained a new respect about discrimination because the Germans hated all Americans and I was discriminated against many times while stationed there. Wordell finds it funny to say he has lynched black people and raped black women, surely it was in sarcasm that he said this but he did nothing but compound the racial rift that exist. In one moment he is trying to be a professional and in the next he is showing just how out of touch he really is! The cartoon was offensive and it was in very poor judgment to run it. We can’t come together as a nation when we do these things so how bout we all just grow up and find more positive ways to move this country foreward.

By Wordell

February 19, 2009 9:46 PM | Link to this

Oh come on Judi!!!! We’re MUCH worse than you have described us!!!! I did enjoy the particular way you described your disgust with us. Knowing you have encountered “us”, I am relieved that your own self perception is on a much higher plane than your thoughts about us. Thank you for describing the people you have decided to live with. I am glad the superior attitude you project is beneficial to you. If not, you’d have to move away. We don’t want you to do that. We need you to remind us of our shortcomings. Thank you, Judi.

By Judi

February 19, 2009 8:48 PM | Link to this

The people of this city have to be the most uneducated, ignorant, selfish, lazy, boorish, racist, b*tchiest, uninspired, bottom-of-the-barrel humans(?) I have ever encountered.

By JD

February 19, 2009 5:42 PM | Link to this

First I have to say that I was offended when I first saw the cartoon, but then I remembered that White people for the most part have more body hair than other ethnic groups, and monkeys are hairy, so it’s obvious now that the monkey isn’t Obama. Second I want to say to the poster who said they want a German History month and a German TV Network, you already have that. Your history month like anything from European based is every month in this country. And you have tons of TV channels. So stop your griping. And third, I just have to say, shame on all the the uneducated racists posting here who don’t know anything about history, so they just come here and spew off a bunch of nonsense. And lastly, to the posters who want Obama to fail, if he fails we all fail, you fail, the country fails. How ignorant to wish that he fails. Shame on you all who wish that. What you ought to be doing is happy that Bush is out of office so he can’t get us into any further bullcrap than we are in already.

By null

February 19, 2009 3:08 PM | Link to this

who wrote the Pork bill? Pelosi & Reid, so someone clue me in on how this relates to Obama? It only reflects on what a Charlie-Foxtrot this sham bill is to start with.. Arch your sports knowledge is shaky enough, please leave politics to the grown-ups.. you’re embarassing yourself with this nonsense..

By Patty

February 19, 2009 2:37 PM | Link to this

Problem solved we are not a country of cowards any more. Call Holder we had our open race discussion.

By Another white girl

February 19, 2009 1:36 PM | Link to this

Alright strawboss, I want the car horn renamed as well as the sounds geese make because I have been called a honky and am offended by the names. People can find insult in anything. It’s time to grow up and get on with life. Quit looking to be offended.

By wtf

February 19, 2009 1:11 PM | Link to this

Get a life.

By Raoul

February 19, 2009 11:52 AM | Link to this

This was a mediocre cartoon, but it sure is fun to see how quickly liberals like Arch jump at anything to feed their bizarre notion that conservatives are a bunch of racist rednecks. The original post from Chas is spot-on! Maybe a little review of how Justice Clarence Thomas has been portrayed by the liberal elites is in order here. Tell us Arch, which African-Americans are we supposed to treat with respect, and which ones are we allowed to make sport of? Why don’t you run it by Mike Peters? We will all get along better when race-baiting, elitist, PC snobbery becomes a thing of the past.

By $140,000

February 19, 2009 11:25 AM | Link to this

these comments must be by laid off GM workers since they’re the only ones with time off to write these many comments! go to the job center you’ll see alot of chimps that were trained to work the assembly lines. OOH OOH AHH AHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By ramsey clark

February 19, 2009 10:12 AM | Link to this

OH MY GOODNESS! A RACIST CARTOON. CONTACT YOUR NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL. THAT CRYBABY WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. BOO HOO HOO.

By German-Dutch-Swiss American

February 19, 2009 9:58 AM | Link to this

Let’s see…I believe I’m going to start my own German-Dutch-Swiss American (GDSA) History Month, & start up my own GDSA Entertainment Channel, & GDSA magazine. I think I’ll even create my own GDSA Holiday — I’ll call it “GDSAwansa.” But see, while I wasn’t born in any of those countries, they are part of me & my heritage. Yet, the minute that I start all of those things previously mentioned, I’m automatically categorized as a white-hooded robe wearing, a lynching rope carrying, looking for the nearest tall tree racist. For Pearls & others like her — Joe’s right. I believe the only thing that he may have omitted was that those who plunk down the race card are nothing but opportunists, i.e. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton.

By Irishguy

February 19, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this

Mr Obama didn’t write the bill, congress did. Some people can see racisim in anything. Like the fellow that wanted astronomers to stop using the term “black hole” since it was racist.

By the Strawboss

February 19, 2009 8:56 AM | Link to this

There is a history of comparing blacks to monkeys. So while maybe they weren’t trying to be racist, they should have known people would make the connection. Everyone who is quick to dismiss this is obviously out of touch with what minority groups face. If your people don’t have words or stereotypes based on a history of hatred and degradation, then you really can’t understand what it’s like when these things come up. I think the paper knew they were dancing close enough to the line to cause a reaction, but far enough away to claim innocence.

By Mike

February 19, 2009 7:25 AM | Link to this

The president does not write bills. Congress writes the bills. The cortoon says that congress had an Ape write the bill for it. That’s not Racist Q.E.D. We can’t have a national debate about the important issues if people are hyper-alert to racial slights. That’s an airball Arch.

By DENNIS

February 19, 2009 7:23 AM | Link to this

STEVE THERES ONE MORE THING OHIO WON”T HAVE OVER NEW YORK———HILLARY

By Matt

February 18, 2009 10:39 PM | Link to this

This is another example of leftwingwackos crying wolf over the race issue. The cop says someone else will have to write the new stimulus bill. Obama did not write the stimulus bill, Congress did. Anyone without an axe to grind or a race card to play would understand the cartoon was ridiculing the wriers of that crappy bill…Congress. Any monkey could come up with a bill that bad. The problem with the left pulling out the race card so often draws focus away from real issues of racism, like the kid who got shot by a policeman in Houston.

By steve

February 18, 2009 9:48 PM | Link to this

Yes it was tacky, I can see were in for a long 4 years.

By U-Nite

February 18, 2009 8:45 PM | Link to this

Let’s not argue over the liberal slant of the DDN or it’s columnist. Let us unite and voice our protest over this left-wing rag by cancelling our subscriptions.

By Wordell

February 18, 2009 8:45 PM | Link to this

Remember: Nat Turner “Two” has informed us that not only does racism exist…(Oh God!!!!I love the sound of jackboots on the pavement just outside of African-American’s homes!!!!!!), but it is now “subliminal”. With that statement, I suppose that “it”…Racism) will never end, (actually, Nazi’s, White power a*s holes ect. will continue it…not normal people)) we are forever condemned to be at each other’s throats…physically/socially/in our racial opinions/relations. Nate, if you want to continue it, for reasons of revenge…or retribution…GAME ON!!!! I actually own slaves now, strung a few up on the old oak tree just off the driveway, and raped and pillaged a few of the good lookin’ black women after the hangings. Hey..it’s inbred…and I can’t change!!!! Nothing has changed according to Nat Turner “Two”…so why should we Honky/Cracker’s try to show that it has? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did “nothing”, right??!! It takes time to change, find truth, accept the “possibilities”. Let’s see, a small summation: Colin Powell…Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff…basically the most powerful military man in the world……Condelizza (sp) Rice, Secretary Of State of the most powerful nation on our planet. Barack Obama…African American…the most powerful man on the planet….but to you, you idiot….it’s all “subliminal”. Nate? How lost can you get before immediate gratification rights it all? At what price will you be at peace?

By Barry

February 18, 2009 8:36 PM | Link to this

that monkey could not have been our president. when our president was in congress he voted to raise taxes and kill babies, but he did not write anything. hence the monkey could not have been BO

By Bud

February 18, 2009 7:46 PM | Link to this

Reading these posts makes me realize how two-faced liberals really are. And that includes Archdeacon.

By lmao

February 18, 2009 7:41 PM | Link to this

stick to your guns arch. and let the hilarious search for a conservative cartoonist that go can toe-to-toe with mr. peters on the op-ed page continue. even ellen has to wince at how hard it is to find a conservative with the skills to compete with our pulitzer prize winning cartoonist. the very conservative belcher has been looking for years now—with no success. this is why. republicans aren’t sopistictde enough to understand humor. their attempts are lame like a child who tries to be funny to be like the cool kids but ends up being seen as out of touch and out of friends..lmFao.

By rm

February 18, 2009 6:09 PM | Link to this

Oh My. I see we are not in kansas any more toto. Every one is making WAYYYYYY more out of this “”CARTOON”” then you need to be making of it. It is just a silly CARTOON..Nothing more. You are reading so much into this CARTOON. Give it a break. We all know WHO wrote the Stimulus Bill and I use Stimulus with my nose shut tight. Congress is a bunch of Monkeys making laws. Just get a life. Laugh or not. I think it is funny. BTW No REAL Monkey was shot is the making of the CARTON..

By madison

February 18, 2009 5:43 PM | Link to this

Boycott Macys department stores. Attack one new york post advertiser at a time until its ad pages dry up and it is the one lying on the ground bleeding to death. LET’S GET BUSY!

By geeker

February 18, 2009 5:16 PM | Link to this

Excuse the typos, it’s hard to type when I am seething over another lame attempt to turn something into a racial issue.

By geeker

February 18, 2009 5:13 PM | Link to this

There have been recent studies done on college students vs. monkeys. The both faird the same in bais math & coordination skills. The cartoon is simply saying a monkey could have written this stimulus package. It has nothing to do with the President as he did not write it. A team of people wrote it. I suppose that since the police officers are not of color that makes this a racist cartoon assumed to be an attack on blacks?!?!

By Barry

February 18, 2009 4:51 PM | Link to this

There is no way that anyone who voted for it (or signed it) read the 1000 page bill it wasn’t released until after 10pm the night before they voted on it. That’s right kids congress is spending more money then they ever have with no idea what they are spending it on. And the president is leading the charge. Way to go salt marsh mouse, good for you!

By Brian

February 18, 2009 4:47 PM | Link to this

Our institutions are failing at a rapid rate and now the cartoonist Sean Delonas has revealed that he and the N.Y. post are morally bankrupt. This political cartoon is similar to the kind of hatred that historians can cite in the newspapers of Hitler’s Germany. Sean Delonas depicts the author of the Stimulus Bill (the one that the President of the United States has put his pen to) as being one and the same as the monkey recently executed under the dubious righteousness dealt out by one officers smoking gun, in the cartoon another officer stands behind the first, who announces the political realities of his actions are that the monkey can’t pass anymore legislation because the monkey has just died a violent death. This is a clear image of a disturbed mind. Yes, the text does secure the connection, and yes, if you grew up in the South, you would know that if you drew that cartoon the United States Secret Service would soon be offering you some free housing and psychological testing.

By Barry

February 18, 2009 4:42 PM | Link to this

“The GOP will know what this feels like the day a political cartoon is published showing two armed liberals in Alaskan snow gear walking away from a slain pig while commenting Revlon needs someone new to test their product on. Had a liberal newspaper done that during the campaign, imagine the GOP and mainstream media response. Therefore let our response as liberals be the same.” armed liberals? most of us wouldn’t know what that would look like. aren’t they the gun control nuts?

By A NY-er

February 18, 2009 4:33 PM | Link to this

The GOP will know what this feels like the day a political cartoon is published showing two armed liberals in Alaskan snow gear walking away from a slain pig while commenting Revlon needs someone new to test their product on. Had a liberal newspaper done that during the campaign, imagine the GOP and mainstream media response. Therefore let our response as liberals be the same.

By N Alexander

February 18, 2009 3:47 PM | Link to this

Compare Bush to a chimp, and it’s funny. (unless you supported Bush) but compare Obama to a Chimp and its racism. Of course, I wonder if anyone actually read the 1000 page bill? Some people have mentioned that there are things in it that make the Patriot act look Patriotic.

By jonas

February 18, 2009 3:39 PM | Link to this

AndreaM: remember all of your s* when Obama fails and does not get reelected. He will be a one term President. I can’t wait to see how many Democrats lose in 2010 after this fiasco spending bill hurts this country badly. This man BO is going to ruin America and we had better learn Chinese because we will never be able to repay the loans. I hate to see it but you people know it all. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

By Sami

February 18, 2009 3:39 PM | Link to this

Liberal or conserative, the cartoon is still racist. I am all for freedom of the press and all, but in this day and age, somethings are still just wrong.

By Pearls

February 18, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this

What the heck is you people’s problem? You are spewing the word Liberal as if it is a disease. I really hope some of the stuff written here is just for a reaction. To Joe specifically, but to others also who share his views, I am astounded. The cartoon is offensive to the lady who was attacked and her family, the owner of the chimp and her family, and to black people. I think it is obvious why the first two would be offended, but in case you were unaware, calling black monkeys and porch-monkeys is a racial slur. It’s not a matter of reading more into something, it is a matter of fact. This is not a Liberal or Conservative issue. It seems since Pres. Obama won ‘conservatives’ on every blog about him are getting more and more hate filled. I could not care less about political cartoons degrading Pres. Obama’s abilities to lead the country and make a positive difference. That sparks conversation. If you can’t see the racism in this cartoon you probably have not been called the ‘n’-word to your face. How’s about that, Joe?

By Pearls

February 18, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this

What the heck is you people’s problem? You are spewing the word Liberal as if it is a disease. I really hope some of the stuff written here is just for a reaction. To Joe specifically, but to others also who share his views, I am astounded. The cartoon is offensive to the lady who was attacked and her family, the owner of the chimp and her family, and to black people. I think it is obvious why the first two would be offended, but in case you were unaware, calling black monkeys and porch-monkeys is a racial slur. It’s not a matter of reading more into something, it is a matter of fact. This is not a Liberal or Conservative issue. It seems since Pres. Obama won ‘conservatives’ on every blog about him are getting more and more hate filled. I could not care less about political cartoons degrading Pres. Obama’s abilities to lead the country and make a positive difference. That sparks conversation. If you can’t see the racism in this cartoon you probably have not been called the ‘n’-word to your face. How’s about that, Joe?

By Wordell

February 18, 2009 3:17 PM | Link to this

AndreaM: Racism: “The belief that one race is genetically superior to another; and the perceived superior race has the right to dominate the perceived genetically inferior race.” Does this help you out in your quest to use one of your “hateful” (Dear God…now they’ve got me doing it!!) buzz words to invoke your liberal totalitarian agenda? Your use of the word “racism” infers that anyone who does not agree with a person of color, no matter if the subject in discussion has nothing to do with race, is a Nazi. Nazi’s are true racists. Me? I might disagree with someone, and that person might be (not always) a person of color. Andrea, I would comment that in my opinion, the cartoon is bigoted at worse, and, at best, marginally funny, really related to the chimpanzee going nuts. READ THIS NEXT: The ones who signed the “stimulus” bill are nuts, they acted out of contol as the chimpanzee did. Your “agenda” of outrage and disgust is really dated/old/”time out corner” nonsense. I believe you’re a typical “molehill to a mountain” agitator. You’re free to comment. Your opinion is valued. Try not to take addressing political satire so personally. Calm down, full moons affect me too.

By Barry

February 18, 2009 3:10 PM | Link to this

so let me get this clear, comparing pres. bush to a (mentally damaged) chimp is funny, but comparing pres. obama to a (out of control) chimp is not funny?

By Ginny

February 18, 2009 3:05 PM | Link to this

Anyone who views this cartoon as anything other than racist and disgraceful is just as bad as the racist jerk who penned it. Disgusting.

By Ginny

February 18, 2009 3:04 PM | Link to this

Anyone who views this cartoon as anything other than racist and disgraceful is just as bad as the racist jerk who penned it. Disgusting.

By Barry

February 18, 2009 3:01 PM | Link to this

What I got from the cartoon; 1) the stimulus bill was written by a diseased (rabid) monkey, 2) someone shot the monkey, 3) congress is going to need a new bill wrighter. Since when Obama was in congress all he did was vote “yes” on tax increases and “present” on everything else it is difficult to see how anyone could confuse him with this monkey.

By No Thanks

February 18, 2009 2:58 PM | Link to this

Obama did not write the bill — Congress did. You people are overreacting and overreaching.

By Joe

February 18, 2009 2:54 PM | Link to this

Hey Jenny… I have a better idea. We can just blame the Liberals because they’re the morons who start up & continue to stir all of this animosity. At the same time, when we do blame the Liberals we’ll be the racists, the troublemakers, the insensitve, the whatever adjective (is that too big of a word for Liberals?) they want to use. They are the same as black people who toss the race card when they have absolutely no reason to do so. Racist comment there? No - FACTUAL!

By lethal

February 18, 2009 2:52 PM | Link to this

You need to remember that members of Abe Lincolns cabinet referred to him as “the original gorilla”…

By Jenny

February 18, 2009 2:46 PM | Link to this

I don’t know if the cartoonist meant it to be racist or not. Regardless, the editors at the Post whould have spent few moments thinking about how it may be construed negatively, and not run it. It was a bad choice. People can choose personally whether or not to read the Post after they have seen it. I think making this into a big Liberal/Conservative debate is counterproductive, and just fuels animosity.

By Pete

February 18, 2009 2:44 PM | Link to this

It’s a good thing that chimp didn’t just go all out APE-ST! The NY Post & this blog would be turned on it’s ear. Liberals act like this is the Armageddon, except they don’t know WTF that really is, along w/ everything else that they ps & moan about.

By SG

February 18, 2009 2:40 PM | Link to this

AndreaM, Seriously?? WOW. What’s life like in your little liberal universe? How dare you assume to know the intentions of the artist of that cartoon. Firstly, Obama did NOT write the bill. The man has never written a bill in his life, as his single 2-year stint in office as senator proved. Secondly, you show your own biases when you presume that a chimpanzee in a political cartoon automatically represents the president. Let me ask you a question. Why did YOU assume the chimpanzee represented Obama? Are you covering your own shame of latent prejudice? Or are you truly that uninformed about our government and the way things work?? Get over it. It is a political commentary covered by the first amendment and I say Its about time!

By Steve

February 18, 2009 2:13 PM | Link to this

As a New Yorker and a UD Alum, I can say this..No one ever talks about the Dayton Daily News and after living in both New York and Ohio I can say this..New Yorkers have 2 things Ohioians will never have. 1, Good Itailian food, 2. Balls.

By AndreaM.

February 18, 2009 2:07 PM | Link to this

My letter to the NY Post: To whom it may concern: I am writing to express the utmost outrage and disgust at the cartoon published today in your newspaper. I have never been much of a reader of the New York Post, but now I have have an excuse never to pick up this paper. The recent events of the chimpanzee attacking and almost killing a woman was not funny at all. The recent success of President Obama, although struggling through politics as usual to pass the economic stimulus package was not funny either. It is sickening to see that the NY Post, a paper read by millions of people of color, would blatantly allow a “cartoonist” to marginalize the success of the first Black President of the United States. The FIRST President & family with any COMPETENCE and COMPASSION in a very long time. The SAME President who’s stimulus package will be of benefit to the paper itself and it’s thousands of employees and millions of readers. I wouldn’t dare say that the NY Post would be so SHAMEFUL as to compare President Obama to a chimpanzee or a monkey. There is no excuse as to say, “I didn’t know.” The NY Post and all of the editors must have some level of understanding the prejudices of the past and the present. Nevertheless, I am never surprised at the level of ignorance and racism displayed by the media here in America. I am disgusted with the NY Post and have made sure to forward this reprehensible cartoon to my entire email list. My hopes is that they will forward the message to as many readers and non-readers of the NY Post as possible. Furthermore, simply as a business decision for the NY Post, a paper that could become unprofitable in the years to come due to competition, quality and need, one would think that the NY Post would do everything it could to keep it’s loyal readers and/or encourage new readers. To all my friends and family on this list. Do NOT keep quiet when you see or hear racist comments. Let people know it’s time to stop! Good Luck,

By Joe

February 18, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this

HOLY CRAP!!! It’s a good thing I’m not a Liberal with thin skin. I mean, I’d just have to toss my skin color out there, say how racist this is, and have absolutely no explanation or fire power to back myself up! My God — you stinking Liberals act more like the French every freaking day! poo-poos are whiny No wonder this country is going into the crapper! Anyone want my “Uncle Tom” comic books? And BTW Julie, are you by chance a PETA crony? Tragic event? You gotta be kidding me! Animal becomes vicious, attacks a human & gets taken out with a lethal case of lead poisoning. Guess pitbulls don’t look so bad now, huh? And just for my two cents worth.. that cartoon is hilarious!

By April

February 18, 2009 1:57 PM | Link to this

It doesn’t matter whether or not Obama wrote the bill. He SIGNED IT. No one read the bill (they couldn’t have - they would to have read it non-stop from receiving it till voting as it was 1000 pages long). It’s full of worthless crap.

By rm

February 18, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this

I read the Cartoon as simply the Cops saying,”A Bunch of Monkeys Wrote the stimulus Bill”. Not a cartoon aimed at the President. What we have here is a Sports reporter telling us how upset he is on a much to do about nothing cartoon.

By Pragmatic

February 18, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this

EXCELLENT point Wordell!!!!

By golfmack

February 18, 2009 1:44 PM | Link to this

Most of the comments on this article make me ashamed to say I’m a native Daytonian.

By Kurt

February 18, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this

Tom, You’re getting senile. Time to retire.

By Nat Turner II

February 18, 2009 1:20 PM | Link to this

First of all…many of you know good and damn well this is racist. The genius behind it is that you can easily argue that it is not…regardless of who wrote the stimulus bill, it is being refered to as Obama’s. This comic is wrong on so many levels!!! Many of you don’t understand subliminal racism and it is sad. Bush could be compared to a chimp because he lacked intelligence…

By D. R.

February 18, 2009 1:15 PM | Link to this

Keep in mind the “chimp” tore half the womans face off a**hole!!

By jimmie

February 18, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this

There you go again Arch - showing how dumb a good sports writer can be when he tries to become political. Stick to sports, you are much more credible there.

By Give Us Free

February 18, 2009 1:06 PM | Link to this

Thanks for a fine comment on a scummy, foul cartoon. Arch, ignore the right-wing drivel and keep up the incisive commentary. The numb-nuts are using a very stale tactic to silence you: reserve the term “racist” for the first person in the room to point out a problem with discrimination. Dumb, predictable, and the perfect tactic for people whose brains and souls are trapped in the 1930s. Nice work, keep it up.

By Larry

February 18, 2009 12:54 PM | Link to this

Funny, I missed the article where Archdeacon complained about the racist invocation at the swearing in. If you miss the obvious and report on the vague, obscure, or just make it up, you’re not a reporter. But that follows the theme of most of your sports reporting as well.

By chaf

February 18, 2009 12:47 PM | Link to this

Arch, quit crying, stay with sports, and shave that mustache.

By Teri

February 18, 2009 12:39 PM | Link to this

If a cartoonist wants to poke fun at a world leader, why not one with whom we are at war?

By Tom

February 18, 2009 12:32 PM | Link to this

First of all, if you followed the news, since you write in a NEWSPAPER, you would know that Pres. Obama did not write the stimulus package. The porkers on the hill did. The cartoon wouldn’t have been as topical and as funny of the police were shooting mounds of fertilizer representing the 300 plus lumps that passed this fiasco.

By parental

February 18, 2009 12:23 PM | Link to this

Until you mentioned it the idea the cartoonist might be referencing Pres. B. O. didn’t occur to me. With all the cartoons printed in this very paper comparing Pres. GW Bush to a chimp, I don’t know how you can make the connection. I would however say it shows your politics to be pro-Obama. The drawing doesn’t look like Pres. B. O. and frankly, if you see a black man in that picture, you are the biased person. I’m not sure what your usual subject matter is (sports) but maybe you should go back to that.

By Okpulot Taha

February 18, 2009 12:11 PM | Link to this

Such hypocrisy being displayed! Over the years, I frequently referred to George W. Bush as, “that chimpanzee in the Oval Office.” Doubtful any would disagree Bush is about as smart as a chimpanzee. Today, I cannot refer to Obama as “that chimpanzee in the Oval Office.” I cannot do this because anal retentive people will jump up and down, tug at their hair, screech and behave like wild chimpanzees while hollering, “Racist!” Most comical is I am a red skinned woman, a member of a minority peoples who suffered the worst genocide of written history, suffered the greatest racism of written history, yet I have to measure my words for fear of being labeled racist. Today, I am censored, my Freedom of Speech is limited, at best I might be allowed to refer to Obama as a blithering idiot. This Obama claim of “America has moved past racism” is clearly the words of a blithering idiot whose thinking, behavior and actions are not too unlike that of a deranged chimpanzee, much as is George W. Bush. I don’t do diapers and I don’t do racist guilt trips. Enough, already. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

By Wordell

February 18, 2009 11:54 AM | Link to this

OOOOHHHHH!!!!! We’re touchy now aren’t we! Liberals can’t fathom much of anything if it doesn’t fit the sacrosant “feely” dogma they consume themselves in. The rest of us are “mean & hateful” if we don’t goose step or march verbally & politically in unison in front of their politically correct and freedom damaging Politburo. Can’t see the irony in this cartoon? A little “back at cha” has you apoplectic and in a near catatonic rage? Good! Welcome to the Republic that gaurantees your right to be offended! Continue to comment and complain!! Debate each other!! That’s why we’re still able to disagree!!>>>Freedom of expression…DUH!! Question: You Libs want The Fairness Doctrine on Radio/TV re-enacted. ( Amazing, since you control every media outlet except Fox). Why then are you asking that some should be banished from commenting on this site? Your double standard is showing through!!…always is, but some won’t take you to task for it, and if they do, again, it’s mean/divisive/hateful. If you can’t win the arguement, name calling shows how lost, intelectually & politically, you are.

By Jim 5

February 18, 2009 11:45 AM | Link to this

Tom, how can you first explain the non-racial context of the cartoon — a parody of the news of the day, then go on to say “The way I read it, its flat out racist”?

By Howie Feltersnatch

February 18, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this

Offensive no, stupid yes Arch must not have anything to write about today.

By Cait

February 18, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

If Obama had written the bill, then I could see where this might be racist. The danger is that we are so politically correct that we can’t use certain words or images for one group that you would use for another. I remember when Howard Cosell said “watch that monkey run” and everyone went nuts. I was watching the game and the guy was weaving in and out around defenders, much like a monkey swinging from tree to tree. I was thinking it before Cosell said it. It had nothing to do with the player’s race any more than calling a running back who pushes a pile of defenders a “bull” has anything to do with race. We really should lighten up!

By Julie

February 18, 2009 11:27 AM | Link to this

Using a tragic event such as this to make a political statement is just wrong. A woman was very seriously injured, and the monkey lost his life. I don’t see how any of this can be made to look humorous.

By beebop

February 18, 2009 11:26 AM | Link to this

Everybody was talking about it at the DDN water cooler this morning, but they all had other (comparatively less trite) stories to write? Was that how this story came to be? It’s only by a series of misinformed assumptions that someone could call this racist. Are we now to the point where anyone that has anything negative to say about anything that can possibly be construed to be negative about Black Americans is now racism? It’s a sad state of affairs.

By jo

February 18, 2009 11:25 AM | Link to this

I don’t see it as racist, but I do see it as stupid. It just isn’t funny, and the reference to the stimulous really makes no sense. I do agree that any jokes about shooting the president are pretty tastless.

By soosie

February 18, 2009 11:21 AM | Link to this

Poor deprived, confused, unhappy confined, used and tired chimp, finally took his fate into his own hands, now out of his misery, no longer forced to satisfy Man’s silly entertainment needs and his desire for the dollar. That’s the real political message …

By RobertK

February 18, 2009 11:19 AM | Link to this

Arch, I agree with everyone stick to sports. It clearly implies that the so called “stimulus bill” is so bad that it must have been written by a dumb animal such as a monkey. What’s your next opinion, the Geico cavemen commercials are directed toward Pelosi and Reid and should be pulled?

By Chico

February 18, 2009 11:15 AM | Link to this

If you look at a chimpanzee and see a black person — or a mixed-race person, in the President’s case — it is you who are the racist, sir. If you really thought it was about the POTUS, you’d be outraged they’d talk about shooting him. Excuse me if I don’t rush to support Al Sharpton, who encouraged the murder of Korean grocers (Remember Freddy’s Fashion Mart?) and “white interlopers.” I thought going nuts over cartoons was strictly the realm of lunatic Muslim extremists.

By RM25483

February 18, 2009 11:14 AM | Link to this

Arch, are you suggesting black people are comparable to chimpanzees? Clearly, you do not even understand the racist background from which you obviously aspire. Chimpanzees are the intelligent, well-thumbed, tool-using members of a community, though often silly and simple, yes; apes are the dumbed down and often quick-to-violence ogres, hence the phrase, “Going Ape.” And for the record, the president is not African-American, he is black. Equal. Black. American. Calling our black brethren African-American only encourages the idea that they should be separated in our minds.

By David

February 18, 2009 11:10 AM | Link to this

Though I do not believe for a minute the cartoonist meant the chimp to represent BHO, the cartoon would have faired better if the cop said “President Obama will have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

By John

February 18, 2009 11:09 AM | Link to this

Arch - Just stick to things you know about, like spor … .never mind, just stop writing.

By Pious Politician

February 18, 2009 11:06 AM | Link to this

Pelosi and Reid wrote the stimulus bill. I doubt Obama even knows what is in it. I think having chimps in zoos is racist along with Kroger being racist for selling watermelons.

By Ted

February 18, 2009 10:58 AM | Link to this

personifying a monkey as a white person is one thing, given our country’s history of racism personifying an african american as a monkey puts it into an entirely different context.

By David

February 18, 2009 10:51 AM | Link to this

Only those that thrive on racism fearmongering see this as racist. It is simply to compare that the stimulus bill was so poorly written that a monkey could have done it. Anything can be twisted. This was just political humor and rather funny. Though based on a tragedy, many tasteless jokes immediately follow tragedy.

By booboo

February 18, 2009 10:50 AM | Link to this

Doesn’t it seem like calling it racist is a bit of a stretch? I mean, it just seems like he’s implying that the stimulus package was poorly written, doesn’t it? I guess sports writers need something to feel liberal about now and then, too.

By Roger

February 18, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this

I think the cartoon is in bad taste, but it’s not new in the realm of comics nor should there be an outrage over it. Where was the outrage over this offensive cartoon by the Rolling Stone attacking John McCain? http://digg.com/politics/NoMediaOutrageOverOffensiveRollingStoneMcCainCartoon I also think that you can’t tie the portrayal of a monkey to a racism. Even George W. Bush was repeatedly portrayed as a monkey: http://www.goodbyecuriousgeorge.com/ The connotation is that monkeys are simple creatures. In both cases I think the monkey portrayal is used to poke fun at the subject’s intelligence, not their race. This ‘outrage’ does have the air of double-standard when comparing the cartoon with other outrageous cartoons in the political spectrum.

By FOXYROXY

February 18, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this

Tom Archdeacon is doing what liberals do best, whine. You never said anything about Mike Peters’ cartoons depicting Bush. And shave your mustache, you look like a out of work porn star.

By PAT

February 18, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this

Tom, Stick to sports not political cartoons you find offensive. Maybe you should look at Mike Peters and other liberal newspaper cartoons over the last 8 years and see how offensive they were to republicans, Condi Rice and especially George Bush. You probably had no problem reading them and getting a chuckle.

By Andrew

February 18, 2009 10:32 AM | Link to this

All very good points. Couldnt agree more. Arch should retire from offering his viewpoints.

By TAS

February 18, 2009 10:30 AM | Link to this

I agree with Chas and Patrick. What is good for the goose. etc… President Bush who withstood 911 in his first year in office was treated horribly by the press, including the DDN. It seems to go with the office these days, although now that a liberal is in office, we will always hear how terrible the critics are instead of the other way around…

By Patrick

February 18, 2009 10:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Arch. Stick to sports, your political diatribes are woefully written and terribly one sided.

By Chas

February 18, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this

Where where all those protesters when negative cartoons and deflmatory remarks were made about Secretary Rice and General Powell. As a Conservative Black American I see a double standard applied if you are a liberal. Even Jackson and Sharpton made negative degrading remarks that were almost ignored by the media. Obama wanted the job now accept the criticism that comes along with it.