NY Post Cartoon Links Obama to Dead Chimp

NBC ^ | 2/18/09 | staff

[pissant]

A New York Post cartoon that appears to link President Obama to a violent chimpanzee drew criticism Wednesday on media Web sites and from civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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, Conn. 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.

“At its most benign, the cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as well have written it,'' columnist Sam Stein wrote in the liberal-leaning Huffington Post. “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.''

[BJClinton]

That poor Chimp!

Being compared to Obama.

Does the NYPost have any respect for the dead?

[SeminoleSoldier]

Tons of cartoons complained Bush to a monkey, I have no sympathy for the hypersensitive hippies.

[JRios1968]

[a fool in paradise]

"This is an OUTRAGE!!!"

[a fool in paradise]

Yeah, but that was Chimpy McBushitler they were talking about...

[Petronski]

...on a darker level...

[aruanan]

No matter how one interprets it, it’s disgusting and in very poor taste.

Come back to reality, please, before you get lost forever.

[blackie]

That isn’t racist, they were referring to the authors of the bill not Obamaloon, the signer!!

[South40]

Where was the outrage over the past 8 years?

[blackie]

The PC police are running amok!

[muawiyah]

What?

This has been perfectly acceptable for 8 years, maybe 9, and now you want to complain?

Obviously portraying the President as an ape is meaningful and necessary ~ why this sort of thing draws us together as a people!

I'd say this is a sign of the dawning of an age of sweetness an delight!

[muawiyah]

No, no, Nancy was being counseled by the Pope at the time. Harry read was consulting his lawyers about his land deals ~ wants his money back! Now he owns an “upside down” land swindle, and that’s no fair.

[muawiyah]

Tell Al it’s not about him!

[WayneS]

The hell the OWNER went through?

What about the hell the VICTIM went through and will continue to go through for the rest of her life?

The owner of that vicious animal can ROT in her own hell for all I care.

[justiceseeker93]

The cartoon creator could have avoided any racist connotation whatsoever by labelling the chimpanzee as "Stimulus Bill," rather than implying that he was the writer of the bill. It would make sense that the "Bill the Chimp" would have to be killed after mauling the public.

Of course, even that might not have stopped the likes of Al Sharpton from making a needless controversy out of it.

[WayneS]

Beware of Dog.

[stentorian conservative]

Yep, so PC in fact that the NYP are being threatened with burning the place down.

Stupidity and ignorance are everywhere.

I think the 'toon is funny and spot-on accurate.

[justiceseeker93]

The owner of that vicious animal can ROT in her own hell for all I care.

Puh-leeze. It was a friend of the owner who was unexpectedly mauled by the chimp. The chimp had been under the supervision of a professional trainer and had been a pet for 15 years, without any history of violence.

[ThomasThomas]

Could this be related infinite monkey theorem?

[WayneS]

Well, then, ALL should be forgiven...