NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The New York Post is standing behind a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police.
NY Post Cartoon Seems to Link Obama to Dead Chimp
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The New York Post is standing behind a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police.
The cartoon in Wednesday’s Post by Sean Delonas shows two police officers standing over the body of a bullet-riddled chimp. One of the officers says the other, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called the cartoon “troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.”
But Sharpton said the Post should clarify the point it was trying to make with the cartoon, which was playing off Monday’s rampage by a pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn., that left a woman severely mauled. Police ended up killing the chimp.
In a statement, Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan said: “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”
A story about the cartoon on the liberal-leaning Huffington Post Web site drew hundreds of reader responses, many calling the cartoon racist and insensitive.
Sam Stein, a columnist for the site, wrote that “at its most benign, the cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as well have written it. Most provocatively, 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.”
mt
i didnt know how against ny is to obama
indeed, im just pointing out, obama is similar to the yiddish word ‘bhaima’ or animal, so its fitting to a chimp
Milhouse
Come on, for eight years it was OK to call Bush a chimp, but suddenly it’s not OK with Obama?
American Guy
Al sharpton: get a job!
chanie
i am against obama’s stimulus bill -er- make that LAW, and i never liked the guy much in the first place….But i still think this cartoon is:
totally out-of-line
unfunny
pointless
Rochel
Calling Bush a chimp was a compliment to Bush and an insult to the chimp! As for comparing Obama to the word bhaima…As in the word bohemian…really? They have nothing to do with eachother than phonetics. You had better support this admin. for it is the one looking out for you and increasing your handouts to ensure your children are fed. So stop biting the hand that feeds you.
oh, and the NY Post should pull and apologize for such a crude comic. Shame on them.
howzit
MT–I must say, your grammer is poor and your textual attempt at a play-on-words are even worse. While I’m not exactly foaming at the mouth when seeing the comic, you must admit there is a difference between depicting a black man as a chimp and a white man as a chimp. Blacks have historically been depicted as apes, chimps, and monkeys by racists, as Jews have been portrayed as rats, money hungry, long nosed people by anti-semites. I can understand the frustration; if there was an comic hinting at anti-Islam/Mohammed being printed,to this degree, they’d probably have already burned US embassies and planned an attack against the NY Post building!
not a chimp
loos more lie a monkey
CHer
rochel, stop being a bohemian tree hugger. milhouse never made the connection, you did. and biting the hand that feeds us? if you didnt notice, we are worse off now and will be worse off for a long time, if not forever. read the news!
leah
why is everyone getting so hyped up over one stupid cartoon??
g-d-s right hand man
the cartoon should show a elephant and a donkey as former president bush started it with $300 and $600 and then instead of a goverment agency distributeing funds to help the foreclosure situations the capitol hill guys didn’t encourage the inevitable consolidation of banks and instead encouraged dependency on the govenment and yup it was move towards communism and away from success breeding success
g-d-s right hand man
also conneticut is associated with insurance and it is prudent to also be careful of the cops
it isn’t a new story fortunately there is sholom for both toldos avrohom and toldos aharon yet times are tough and both have to live with it
toldos avrohom representing all laws and toldos aharon representing sholom sometimes at the cost of freedoms most americans are proud to be americans and won’t tolerate the shrinkage of liberty and freedoms as established by the founding fathers of the united states of america
It-s obvious
Totally disgusting! Not funny in any way and I think the artist is a moron.
Just making fun of a sick event that caused terrible injury is moronic.
And if anybody in CH thinks otherwise should be ashamed of themselves
Dear Howzit
Dear Howzit,
RE:
<<<MT–I must say, your grammer is poor and your textual attempt at a play-on-words are even worse.>>>
For someone playing “language police,” you need to be more careful yourself!
It should read:
MT–I must say, your grammar [not “grammer”!] is poor, and your textual [huh? what “text” is MT making reference to (which is what “textual” means — look it up!)? maybe you should have just left out that word as it belies your own lack of wherewithal here] attempt at a play-on-words is [not “are”!] even worse.
Better luck next time.
As for the cartoon: hey folks, lighten up already! Obama’s a big boy, and he can take it. At worst, he’s crying all the way to the bank.
mt
to howzit
i dont exactly see what thats got to do with this article or my comment. i just pointed out a similarity from obama to bhaima
mk
what do we care? why is this on a chabad site?
rina
to dear howzit,
get a life instead of disecting someone’s comment so intensely. maybe get a dayjob.
Mr p
“they’ll have to find somebody else to write the next stimulus bill”
Congress and the house are the ones that write the bill
The President signs the bill
Sharpton is just as dumb as the bill
haven
what would have happened if the caption was add this chimpite to the holocaust roll call.