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 Post subject: Is the New York Post Stoopid or What?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:59 pm 
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Did you see this cartoon today?

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A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on Wednesday.
The drawing, from famed cartoonist Sean Delonas, is rife with violent imagery and racial undertones. In it, two befuddled-looking police officers holding guns look over the dead and bleeding chimpanzee that attacked a woman in Stamford, Connecticut.

"They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," reads the caption.

An email to Delonas and a call to the New York Post went unreturned. The cartoon appears both on the New York Post website and page 12 of the Wednesday paper.

At its most benign, the cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as well have written it. Others believe it compares the president to a rabid chimp. Either way, the incorporation of violence and (on a darker level) race into politics is bound to be controversial. Perhaps that's what Delonas wanted.

Complete article and cartoon here


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 Post subject: Re: Is the New York Post Stoopid or What?
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:07 pm 
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I suspect it was a calculated pushing of the envelope to sell more papers.

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 Post subject: Re: Is the New York Post Stoopid or What?
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:58 am 
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Or.. the cartoonist wanted to make Obama look like a monkey's uncle? Might the cartoonist be one of those repulsive Repugnuts?

Whatever. People should read something besides political satire. Like maybe, who's getting all that stimulus money and what for.


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