Is this cartoon racist?

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[JoeProBono]

Riddle me this: the New York Post, a famously combative, conservative newspaper owned by Fox News proprietor Rupert Murdoch, runs a cartoon implying that a crazed chimpanzee wrote the recent economic stimulus bill, which was actually championed and developed by our nation's first black president.Longtime civil rights activist Al Sharpton thinks it might be. New York Gov. David Paterson, who is that state's first black chief executive, has said "an explanation is in order."

[JoeProBono]

[tx_eggman]

what is the symolism as it relates to the PorkBill?

I'm slow in the uptake but I got it immediately ... it took the the intelligence of monkeys to write porkulus

[antivenom]

yes yet another evil plot perpetrated by “whites who don’t do right” when the yellows are mellow....and some other crap that was utter just about 4 weeks ago....

[SkyDancer]

Isn't that Pelosi laying there?"

[antivenom]

YES! Nicely said!!!!!!

[Professor_Leonide]

Damn, a cartoon portraying Barack Obama as a dead monkey!

It’s mindnumbingly stupid even though we all know BHO is leading us into a socialist hell.

[OneWingedShark]

I think they’re saying that the 1,000+ pages that were just signed into law were written by a drunken monkey...

[OneWingedShark]

> “This will be, at first, a process that is both awkward and painful, but the rewards are, I believe, potentially great,” Mr. Holder said. “Just like prison-sex.”

There, I fixed it for you.

[dangus]

I’d understood it to be a reference to the chimp who was killed after ripping the face off a woman. Relating the chimp to Obama (rather than who Obama hired to write the bill) doesn’t make sense unless a police officer recently killed Obama.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Actually, it's an anti-Italian, anti-Moron, er, anti-Mormon cartoon. Obummer did not write the bill. Nancy Pelosi's minions (including lobbyists) and Harry Reid's (You can see why I have trouble with the second "m" as both words apparently fit him.) minions (including lobbyists) wrote Porkulous I.

I do note that the chimp does look like a cross between Pelosi and Reid. Those two super-chimps should be the ones complaining, not Al Sharpounce.

[sheik yerbouty]

FM if they can’t take a joke..

[evets]

Red Rose Tea!

[antivenom]

Thanks for that line...I have future plans for it!

:)

[sheik yerbouty]

Gov. Paterson is also the first adulterous governor to be a replacement for another adulterous governor..

[PurpleMan]

OK. I sorta see it but for a stupid animal a jackass would be better (although it seems too close to a Dem donkey), or a turkey (the bill is a turkey); or a pig (it’s full of pork).

Besides shooting it dead, too?

A dumb visual in what was drawn.

[TFMcGuire]

It may not be funny to you. But it makes the point about authorship of the bill perfectly. Political cartoons aim to present truth not humor.

The only issue I have is that the random, unthinking processes of a chimpanzee would certainly get a bit of the legislation erring to the benefit of Americans instead of the Bolsheviks.

[Braak]

Either way...watch as the Left uses this as ammo for cries for reinstatement of the “fairness” doctrine to muzzle all those “irresponsible, hate-filled rednecks”. Fact is, it’s already begun. A co-worker has the Michael Baseman(sp?) show on and the guest is losing it over the cartoon, and Rihanna...

[TFMcGuire]

“A dumb visual in what was drawn.”

Disagree. Believe it makes the point brilliantly.

[aruanan]

David Paterson, who is that state's first black chief executive, has said "an explanation is in order."

Well, Ole Blind Davey, let me explain you this. The president did not write the bill. Spending bills originate in the House, which you may have known if you had not been spending so much time in sexual dalliances. The caption in the cartoon said, "write the next stimulus bill" not "sign the next stimulus bill." Of course, I realize that the cartoon was not done in Braille.

[JoeProBono]

Travis sits in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandy and Jerome Herold in Connecticut.

For years, Travis had been a local celebrity in his hometown. He featured often on TV adverts, and would pose for photographs performing his favourite tricks: tucking into a filet mignon, dressing himself or using a computer.

But yesterday the pet chimpanzee went berserk, attacking a friend of his owner's and causing terrible facial injuries before turning on a police officer who shot him in self-defence.