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Sharpton blasts Post cartoon linking stimulus bill to chimp (but OK if it was President Bush)
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| 2/19/2009
| cnn
Posted on 02/18/2009 5:31:02 PM PST by tobyhill
A New York Post cartoon Wednesday drew fire from civil rights activist Al Sharpton and others who say the drawing invokes historically racist images in suggesting an ape wrote President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package.
The artist, Sean Delonas, called Sharpton's reaction "ridiculous," and the newspaper defended its decision to run his cartoon. But other African-American leaders joined Sharpton, who has been the butt of previous Delonas panels, in attacking what they called the cartoon's racial overtones.
"Sean Delonas' cartoon in today's New York Post is insensitive and offensive," National Urban League President Marc Morial said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. "Comparing President Obama and his effort to revive the economy in a manner that depicts violence and racist inferences is unacceptable."
The cartoon showed two police officers standing over the body of a chimpanzee they just shot, a reference to this week's mauling of a Connecticut woman by a pet chimp, which police killed after the attack. In the cartoon, one of the officers tells the other, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; cartoons; chimp; seandelonas; sharpton
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:31:02 PM PST
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
I think Sharpton was afraid that the chimp was actually a teenage girl, covered in dog poop, pretending to have been raped by white cops. He’s got some imagination, I tell ya.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:32:53 PM PST
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
To: tobyhill
Someone should clue Sharpton in and let him know that Obama didn’t write the bill.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:33:21 PM PST
by
R_Kangel
(`.`)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:33:50 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: tobyhill
Al who ?
Surely he was notified that his race card expired on Nov 4th 2008 !
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:34:01 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: tobyhill
Chimpus Kahn was OK though.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:34:13 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: tobyhill
(but OK if it was President Bush) That is the first thing I thought when I read the story. The libtards always called Bush "chimpy."
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:34:19 PM PST
by
GinaLolaB
(=^..^=)
To: tobyhill
It’s only been a month and I already miss “Chimpy” as the Dems affectionately called President Bush
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:34:44 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: tobyhill
Hypocritical double standards are the trademark of the leftists/liberals/progressives.
To: King Moonracer
Even though I find the cartoon pretty dumb, the cartoon would have been praised by the MSM and the rest of the Libs had it depicted President Bush as the ape. They would have told us to lighten up, “it's free speech”.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:36:35 PM PST
by
tobyhill
(Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
To: tobyhill
Dear Al, Marc and other assorted race baiters,
You are showing your ignorance in insinuating that nobama wrote the stimulus bill.
Love & kisses,
upchuck
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:36:51 PM PST
by
upchuck
(I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:38:15 PM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
To: Psycho_Bunny
Where was this douchebag with Obama’s “Lipstick on a pig” comment?
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:39:57 PM PST
by
guido911
(Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
To: tobyhill
He’s black but, not authentic like me.
-Al S.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:42:15 PM PST
by
WakeUpAndVote
(INGSOC starts 1.20.09)
To: guido911
I forgot about that one. It's always ok when the Libtards say it or draw it but they sure do yell when it's about them.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:43:12 PM PST
by
tobyhill
(Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
To: tobyhill
Nothing much was said when Condi was the subject. You have to qualify as a “magic negro”.
After eight years of monkey cartoons, assasination movies, etc., no jokes should be off limits for Presidents. Don't they know they're stifling creativity?!
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:46:53 PM PST
by
Redgirl
(You get your torch and I'll get my pitchfork.)
To: upchuck
The fools at DU have their panties in a twist over this! L0L
They called GWB Chimpy at every opportunity L0L. These people at bat guano insane!
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:48:08 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: tobyhill
What's Sharpton so offended about, since he probably has called George W. Bush 'Chimpy' on several occasions? Hasn't he ever heard the old saw that with enough chimps, one would eventually come up with Shakespeare?
Well, one chimp could've written the Leftist Porkulus package on the first try. It's that stupid. Sorry, Nine Percent Peloser.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:49:43 PM PST
by
Post Toasties
(Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
To: upchuck
For heaven’s sake....what’s wrong with this cartoon?
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:50:07 PM PST
by
pointsal
To: upchuck
Thanks for posting that chuck! I hadn’t seen it. Now all my friends will.
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posted on
02/18/2009 5:51:40 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Have You Punched A Democrat Today? - Do it for the children.)
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