Cartoon Appears To Link Obama, Dead Chimp

(AP) 

(NY Post)

The Rev. Al Sharpton says a New York Post cartoon that appears to link President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee is "troubling at best."

The cartoon in Wednesday's Post by Sean Delonas shows a dead chimp and two police officers, one with a smoking gun.

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

The cartoon refers to Travis the chimp, who was shot to death by police in Stamford, Connecticut, on Monday after it mauled a friend of its owner.

It links the chimp to Obama, who signed his administration's economic stimulus plan on Tuesday.

Sharpton called the cartoon offensive and divisive.

The Post had no immediate comment.

[ratbiggy]

Oh, look! I found something else racist in the cartoon.

On the vehicles parked at the curb, we can clearly see the tire of one of the cars.

The tire is black. So, well there you have it. It's racist.

Let's call Al Sharpton.....


NOT!!!!

This whole controversy is ridiculous.

[ratbiggy]

There would still be only ONE goat.
Posted by erasmus606 at 12:57 PM : Feb 20, 2009

But the cartoon would still be about shooting the president.

Why would the police just shoot the president?

No reason is given that would explain that.

It just doesn't make any sense.

OK, suppose there was a news story about the police shooting a goat someplace for some reason.

Now would they make a cartoon about shooting the goat and saying "Who will write the next executive order?"

See. It just doesn't work.

[fixer343]

When is racist Al Sharpton going to stick up for the cops? It is terrible that Caucasian Cops are depicted as trigger happy. If Ol' Al assimilates himself so closely with the chimp, he should be willing to take its place.

[erasmus606]

You can deny the "racism" part if it makes you feel better. BUT the fact remains that the cartoon is VERY inappropriate! You can replace the monkey with a goat, but it doesn't change anything. There would still be only ONE goat. And the caption would still read: "They'll need to find SOMEONE ELSE to write the stimulus bill." And who is behind the stimulus bill?
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Without him, it wouldn't have been written! Who do the Republicans blame for that stimulus bill? OBAMA! They aren't even thinking about who ACTUALLY wrote it. To them, it was OBAMA.

[dee633-2009]

Like always here is Al Sharpon make noise over nothing that has nothing to do with racism, the fact to the matter is that there was nothing wrong with the cartoon but when you have Al sharpon with a stick hitting a hornets nest of course someone has to get bite..
Way to go Al, here is another way to make peace on earth. Your not even a real REV..
LOoser

[lilvinnyb]

Here we go again with the selective outrage.

Where was the media, al sharpton and everyone else when the LA TIMES ran an editorial of Condi rice sitting on a porch, dressed in "gone with the wind" type clothes using "uneducated slave dialect".

If this does not prove the media bias, selective outrage and double-standard that exists out there. I dont know what will!!!!

[pres_monkey]

The cartoon is harmless. The only reason is SEEMS racist to its critics is because they are racists and that is how they see/define everything.

[ratbiggy]

Does anybody remember the Tawana Brawley story?

Al Sharpton was involved.

It turned out to be a hoax.

I think we should be careful about listening to Al Sharpton too much.

[ccmjmu11]

OMG, heres another raciest supporter. It's not who wrote it, it's the underlying meaning.

[nobama6]

Hey you race-baiting libs...lest you forget, Obama didn't write the stimulus bill. Pelosi, Reid and their buddies did. To Obama's credit, in this case, he probably didn't even read the *** thing!