Did these racists apologize?
Posted on 02/19/2009 10:03:13 PM PST by americanophile
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Post apologized on Thursday to those offended by an editorial cartoon that critics said was racist because it likened President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. The newspaper acknowledged that the cartoon published on Wednesday had drawn controversy because African-Americans and others saw it as a depiction of Obama. "This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize," the paper said in an editorial on its website headlined "That Cartoon." "It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period," the paper said. The cartoon of a policeman shooting an ape played on the real shooting of a pet chimpanzee in Connecticut this week. A police officer in the cartoon says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." The cartoon ran a day after Obama signed into law the $787 billion economic stimulus that he had strongly promoted. Critics interpreted the cartoon's dead chimp as a reference to Obama, who became the first black president of the United States on January 20. Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!" outside the skyscraper headquarters of the newspaper's parent company in midtown Manhattan on Thursday. They called for the jailing of Rupert Murdoch, whose international media conglomerate News Corp owns the Post. The newspaper initially defended the cartoon as a parody of Washington politics, but Sharpton said it exploited a potent image in the history of racism toward blacks.
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Yep. Holder’s right. Capitulation at it’s finest.
We've been trying, Al, but you won't let us.
Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted “End racism now!”
Apparently, Pelosi and Reid are not the only ones with the I.Q. of a chimp.
How do you apologize to stupid people “We’re sorry about your ignorance?”
True. The LAST thing Sharpton wants is an end to racism. He’d be out of a job.
Cry me a river, build yourself a bridge and get over it.
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_2.html
You can apologize all you want but the cartoon is still funnier than hell.
RANGLE: pay your taxes. or is it SHARPTONGUE? I don’t know. They always have their big mouths open and their dental work looks the same. putrid.
It’s like Holder’s moronic comment about race this week. Good gravy, all we DO is talk and talk and talk and talk about this crap. How about just emphasizing that everyone needs to respect each other—period. No set-asides, no special protections for anyone—we’re ALL people.
The rest will take care of itself.
Which is what these people—as well as racist whites and blacks outside DC—seem to fear most, not having an issue to wield as a hammer and give themselves a reason for being.
Funny how no one demanded Reverand Wright to apologize for calling Italians “big noses” and saying that Israel is a “Oh there I said it again, I said Israel, that dirty word” never apologized for saying that the United States Government invented AIDS to kill black people, never said he was sorry to the victims of the 9/11 attacks saying their “chickens had come home to roost” nope, nothing, yet Sharpton and other idiots make a big deal about a cartoon, which I too believe was hilarious
Nasty Pelosi wrote the porkulus bill.
...It wasn’t that either. It was a commentary on intelligence (and the lack thereof), not race or gender.
Nancy Pelosi is a monkey.
So have we become like Europe?
No cartoons about Mohammed, or we’ll riot?
No making fun of anything, or it becomes a racist comment?
Meanwhile, there are 140,000 hits for Bush Chimp images.
Surely the jails are already full?
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Obama, America's Mohammed.
Pathetic.
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