The Chimp Cartoon: When Race Becomes Monkey Business

Pajamas Media ^ | February 18 | Bob Owens

[AJKauf]

I see an editorial cartoon combining the too real absurdity of two current events:

1. The signing of the “stimulus,” a nearly $800 billion dollar spending bill that Democrats forced through the House and Senate without reading. 2. The tabloidesque horror of a Connecticut chimpanzee that severely mauled a woman before being shot down by police officers it attempted to attack.

The editorial cartoonist was clearly intoning that a deranged chimp couldn’t have authored a bill any worse than the boondoggle created by Nancy Pelosi in her little fiefdom we call the House of Representatives.

Like clockwork, however, the angry spoiled children of the media left race-baiting industry cried “Wolf!” “Racist!” Here we go, yet again:...

[an amused spectator]

of course we’ll probably be lectured to by none other than Kathleen Parker.

LOL! No doubt. Kathleen "Kitty Kelley Barbie" Parker, as I sometimes refer to her.

[an amused spectator]

Also, the undereducated masses think POTUS wrote the bill - so they’ll make the link quickly as well. I’m not saying they’re right - just that the link will be made.

Good. Cut 'em dead in conversation:

"The President doesn't write bills. Don't bother having an opinion on things you never learned in high school. Now, how about those Lakers?"

[Eastbound]

Hahaha!

[DBrow]

http://www.moonbattery.com/bush_chimp.JPG

Historical precedent trumps claims of racism.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Come on, now, none other than CNN’s resident deep thinker Soledad O’Brien has stated that the cartoon is “unquestionably racist.”

[DBrow]

http://www.iflipflop.com/bush_chimp.jpg

http://www.rantical.com/bushisms/bushchimp.jpg

http://www.jokebook.com/bush_chimp.GIF

http://earthhopenetwork.net/bush%20art/bush_chimp_pose.jpg

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/images/chimpbush500.jpg

Associating the president with a chimp is commonly accepted, and has been for eight years.

[Fred]

Where is the outrage over years of jokes like this???