Take back all MSM/PBS/NPR, they no longer speak for us, they Lie for us and we believe them.

See MSM for exactly what they are, an accomplice to the crimes.

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Seriously? Apologizing?

Cowards should have stuck to their guns.

It should have read "Those of you who read a racist intent into a cartoon that didn't have one, go fuck yourselves".

Not a big fan of the Post, but I am a HUGE fan of the freedom of speech.

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And, obviously, a big fan of racist cartoons, too.

Wake up.

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the only racism in that cartoon is that seen by the likes of racists.. like Al Sharpton, and possibly you!

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Beyond the typical Racist and Sexist implication of this 'cartoon', it is a clear provocation ( justification and glorification)towards violence- this time Political assasination.
As reviewed in my last comment (Rush), the Repugs have incited violence before through their hate and fear mongering rhetoric
This 'Sorry you Feel that way' BS is never an apology, it's a 'Blame the victim'(the offended) ploy to avoid real responsbility for being an asshole.
Oh Us Liberals love to spew our hatred and dreams of retribution on say Cheney and Rumsfeld, but we would be infuriated if our chance to savor the opportunity to watch them squirm in the hot seat was cut short. We want to see them sweat as testimony drags on about their crimes, their Legacy marred in disrepute and ultimatley their conviction for High crimes. Oh we like to savor our Cold Dishes Slowly, with Fava beans and Chianti, so to speak. Any one who takes that tasty morsel away from US will be in Big Trouble.
But not those vigilanties in the Repug party who exist on the edge of a psychiatric break with reality anyway on a daily basis.
These lunatics think if they beat the hellout of a guy kid, gays will disappear. Drag a Balck man behind a pick up truck, the balck community will all move back to Africa. Set off Pipe bombs at the Olymics,they are proving they are pro life. Opening fire in a church makes them 'Faithfuls'...Seriously Twisted.
And the Repug party has been playing off this for decades."Mushroom clouds", "Islamic Facists", "Bomb bomb bomb Iran", 'Pro choice means Pro Abortion- forced abortions' 'gay marriage Destroys All marriages..and you might get infected with the dreaded Homosexual tendencies- think of your kids!'
They haven't just been playing with fire, the Repugs have been Setting them intentionally.and therefore they should be held legally responsible.Charged as co conspirators, accomplices and as perpetrators of a heinous act.
'Want to play Ball Scarecrow?'- we have a little fire of our own, it's called the Law.and anyone who encourages and provokes a Political Assasination is just as guilty as the one who who committed the act. That was what that 'Cartoon' was all about.Forget the Racist or sexist cover story, that's really irrelevant and of little consequence(typical).

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It was not "racist" it was making a comment about everything from the death of a drugged out monkey and the fact that even a monkey could have designed the stimulus package. I don't understand how everything has to turn racist just because we have a "black" president-- I guess anyone who criticizes anything this guy does is now going to be a racist-- is this the change? or is this imagining hope? Bullshit.

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So much for all that liberal eddicashun... not a bit of it ever seeped inta their privileged heads.

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This is how the french refer to what is happening here. Screaming your opinion/point of view and refusing to listen/empathize with the other side.
There are many things wrong with this cartoon: put in context and juxstaposed with some the artist's previous tasteless cartoons, the picture of Obama signing the bill on the page immediately precceding it, the looong painful history of my people (my friends, my family) being called 'apes' and 'monkeys'... the intent is clear to ME, and not at all subtle in MY (humble) opinion.

But it remains MY opinion. MY point of view.

The fact that some do not see anything wrong with the cartoon only demonstrates a lack of empathy: OTHERS have been made uncomfortable by the depiction (many others actually, enough that a march was organized in protest...). Isn't that, in of itself, enough for those who don't see it (or choose not to)? If YOU (the OTHER) feels slighted, does human decancy not require me to at least try and understand YOUR point of view? Or at least debate it civilly?

On the other side of the coin, i think it's unfair to automatically assume that one who disagrees that the cartoon is offensive and/or racist is himself racist or is not reacting in good faith. One does not come to understanding by being put on the defensive.

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...more important events/problems we all should be paying attention to. It seems whenever race or Israel is mentioned everyone jumps into they fray from the right or left.

What we should all be paying attention to, whenever a story is endlessly repeated on the MSM for days, is what is going on behind the scenes right-wingers who own & control the MSM don't want us to be informed about.

Although congress is out of session this week I still smell a rat.

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There is something more ominous portrayed in the cartoon than I first percieved. The racism was so blatant that no amount of back-peddling can explain it away. What other symbols are involved in this picture. Firstly, the stimulus plan ostensibly represents the state or the government, the collectivity which was passed to help the commonwealth by President Obama. Secondly are two white cops guns pointed and fired at the above symbol. And while the cops are generally felt to be a part of the state apparatus, here it is portrayed as Shooting Down the democratically elected leader of this state, with the warning about trying to institute future plans. Does this represent the ruling class disposing of the now inconvenient bourgeois democracy and a turn to FASCISSM? I would suggest that underneath the racist veil, this is the first shot fired in the ongoing civil war that the rulers are waging, even as government tries to supplicate them with the wealth of the nation in bailout after bailout. Surely, this is not to far a stretch of the imagination as capital cares less about the skin colour of those it exploits-racism serves as a convenient curtain behind which lies the real actors in this current economic crisis. The minority elite capitalist class against the rest of us, the wage slaves who have nothing other than their labour power for exchange in the "free" market. It will take the collective action by this very majority to overcome the rule of capital and institute a true democracy with equality of condition as its mandate. Those are the only actions that will rescue this nation from complete impoverishment and domination by the few. Even here my words are guarded. I am sure big brother is ready and waiting with every tool already available from the patriot act to forces trained to combat domestic unrest in the Schools for America.
Yours,
RR

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ANY IDIOT COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT THE CARTOON WOULD UNLEASH A STORM. IT WAS IN TERRIBLE TASTE, TO SAY THE LEAST. IN SOME COUNTRIES IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED TREASON AND BE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. CONSIDER YOURSELVES LUCKY, POSTIES.

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What bullshit ! The only way to see that cartoon as racist is to first be a racist yourself.

By the way, the actual cartoon can be seen here..

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You people are crazy.

A chimp gets shot and someone publishes a cartoon that suggests the chimp was the author of the stimulus bill. The joke is that the bill is so badly thought out that a chimpanzee could have written it. It's a joke that has been made a *million* times over different subject matter but it was wheeled out again in this instance because a chimpanzee shooting made the news. Do you actually think the cartoonist or the paper were thinking 'hey, lets portray Obama as a monkey because he's black and then show him dead to encourage his assassination!'? No. They obviously didn't recognize that the cartoon would be taken in any way other than they intended. Poor editorial judgment is all that they are guilty of but it's enough for all you lunatics to run around in circles screaming and crying and baying for blood. Don't you see that this kind of hysterical, unthinking, knee-jerk stupidity is relevant to why the US is in this mess? Do you not have enough to deal with and worry about without making stuff up? Start using your brains before it's too late.

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You people are crazy.

A chimp gets shot and someone publishes a cartoon that suggests the chimp was the author of the stimulus bill. The joke is that the bill is so badly thought out that a chimpanzee could have written it. It's a joke that has been made a *million* times over different subject matter but it was wheeled out again in this instance because a chimpanzee shooting made the news. Do you actually think the cartoonist or the paper were thinking 'hey, lets portray Obama as a monkey because he's black and then show him dead to encourage his assassination!'? No. They obviously didn't recognize that the cartoon would be taken in any way other than they intended. Poor editorial judgment is all that they are guilty of but it's enough for all you lunatics to run around in circles screaming and crying and baying for blood. Don't you see that this kind of hysterical, unthinking, knee-jerk stupidity is relevant to why the US is in this mess? Do you not have enough to deal with and worry about without making stuff up? Start using your brains before it's too late.

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While loathe to defend any such yellow rag, I wonder at the rush to conclude that a depiction of a chimpanzee is a depiction of President Obama. In fact, I think it "signifies" a little on the racism of our country, where such a conclusion could even be reached. Presidents don't draft bills, Congress does.

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Does anybody read the New York Post seriously? I suppose it could be a useful paper; unfortunately, it is not soft enough and doesn't come in a roll.

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ever hear of tact? If it could be construed as racist (and it most certainly was meant to be a racist dig) than a wise and well-mannered editor or artist would not draw it and publish it. Obviously it could be construed as racist, and obviously editors of said paper are wise enough to know this, so then it was done on purpose.

We have freedom of speech, but tact and manners should a virtue of any publisher. Bush was often depicted as a chimp--and he is obviously a fool and a idiot and a evil prick--but knowing the racist connotations of said picture--why publish it? unless a hostile emotional response (even assanition) was meant to be invoked.

These people are evil. And they should be in prison--not for the cartoon--for betraying a nationa and a people and propagating crimes against humanity. they are cruel and malicious and sow hate and violence and war--if we are a community and pursuit of happiness is our right and our mandate--than these people are guilty of crimes in the first degree--they must be areested and put on trial. All of the sniveling snakes!

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...people openly talk about 'towelhead terrorists' rather than the 1.3+ million Iraqi, Somali, Darfurian & Afghani victims of corporatized trade & WHINSEC malfeasance...

...I'm not particularly stunned that there would be racist cartoons circulating.

I thought I'd seen some racism... until I travelled in the USA

what an eye opener: Everytime I go, I'm shocked by the *aclimatization to racism* that overlays so much of the society's cultures.

I think my latest personal 'favourite' was seeing the *massive* painting in the Texas Legislature's Senate during last year's Austin City Limits. OMG. Apparently, its been there a *long* time... helping to solidify the government's image of its constituency...
A massive oil painting of snarling, sub-human Mexicans & dapper Americans dispatching them to death... the huddled caucasian mother with babe-in-arms in the corner was a particularly charming touch. Yes, I understand what the Battle of the Alamo was about... but that threatening dehumanizing painting IS IN A SEAT OF GOVERNANCE in a society which includes LATIN AMERICANS... right?
Oh, but there was *more*! on the RIGHT side of the door? a lovely painting depicting the slaughter of *Mexicans trying to flee* from a campsite under attack... The lovely Texas geriatric tour volunteer (Her name is Georgia, she's charming but simply didn't notice how the non-Americans tourists were standing aghast in shock as the Americans in the group giggled, 'too bad we can't kill them all now!') was quite proud of the painting & happily pointed out how Mississipi's National Guard had to be "made 'honourary Texans' before they could aerially replace the 'goddess' back onto the renovated dome". Now there's your state priorities for you.

That anyone would pretend that cartoon couldn't be 'misunderstood by Liberals' is either living in a ReichWing bubble of some configuration of self-centred ignorance, denial & incompetence

Am I shocked? no.
Am I horrified? no.

Does it look exactly like what it is? most likely.
Did the USA finally 'vault' over the scourge of xenophobia & racism?
no. why did you think it had? because the nation elected a black man in a party which took its DNC funding from AT&T when years of US gov't & privatized illegal surveillance was on the table for prosecution?
seriously? ...that's your evidence of vaulting a social scourge of racism? hell, the Republicans know what they're exploiting: because when you take segments of a population & make them scratch & claw & become hardened to 'me & mine FIRST! gimme the GREEN!'... you get ReichWingers like The Exorcist Bobby Jindal or consumerist gang rappers. Cruelty & dehumanization create more of the same.

sure, Obama isn't Bush. Absolutely true, but that the World thinks he's such a massive improvement is more a testimony to frantic desire to get past the World's decades of desperation to get out from under the grips of ReichWing Imperial abuses.
Whether it does is a question for the next 4 years & the character of individuals who make up the USA self-governing constituency


perspective, people.


Perspective.

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Unfortunately this cartoon fit right into a racially charged debate, but I doubt it was ever intended that way.

When I first saw the cartoon I thought they must have been commenting on the legislation by insinuating that it looks like a monkey wrote it, and now that monkey (the chimp from Connecticut that was recently killed during an attack) is dead and there's nobody to write that legislation anymore.

I can see someone reading racism into the cartoon, and the possibility of violent acts against President Obama is a concern that has many of us sensitized to the issue. Then our African American friends and neighbors have a largely different vantage point of racism whether it be subtle or overt, and have the right to vocalize their concerns. (I'm as white blooded as they get, so I can't even pretend to know what it's like to be the object of racism.)

Personally, I think this whole thing has been blown way out of proportion, and that has been fed by the media who love a frenzy. Hate sells far better than love, and all media outlets are interested in increasing viewership and advertising revenues. And the NY Post is of course one of those media outlets that loves to stir the pot. All this media attention has probably given them more advertising dollars and in the end they win the money game.

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I mean, come on- no way did the Post's editor not see that this would be a problem of misperception. If not, then he/she should vacate their position. I don't feel an apology is due, but an explanation would be sufficient. Not everyone knew a drugged monkey got shot, and I don't think that angry chimp had anything to do with the stimulis package, so WTF?. I think it was done on purpose- no such thing as bad publicity, and it put this little rag in the limelight. And, I think it got just the response they wanted, they could use a common ethnic slur, while explaining away how it wasn't meant that way. Frankly, it would have been more poignant to use an elephant to make the point. Don't get your panties in a flutter, I don't mean a GOP elephant, (as nice as that may sound) but more an elephant in the room, the old cliche'...see even I had to explain that one.

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