Posted on 02/19/2009 4:40:16 PM PST by Dallas59
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post on Thursday, branding the newspaper as racist for publishing a cartoon that appeared to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.
Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!" outside the parent company's skyscraper in midtown Manhattan and called for the jailing of Rupert Murdoch, whose international media conglomerate News Corp owns the Post.
The newspaper has defended the cartoon as a parody of Washington politics, but Sharpton said it exploited a potent image in the history of racism toward blacks.
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Pelousie wrote most of it. IMO
Same here, only in Long Island
The deliveryman usually drops it off around 6 AM. I walk back and forth, looking out the window, until it arrives.
I'm not usually up that early in the AM, but there it is on the driveway at 7:30am, just waiting for my eyes to feast on the bad puns and sometimes tasteless headlines of that mornings edition :)
On the rare occasion the delivery is delayed and my morning routine is ruined.
Scary thought of that happening (usually rarely though) ... they deliver it in a red bag, which is great because if it snows or is snowing during the early AM, the red bag sticks out of the snow :) Unlike Newsday, which is delivered in a clear bag and often gets lost in the snow cover ... I can kick around the driveway a bit to find my NY Post fairly easily if it got buried completely ... Good Stuff :)
I always bring it to the office for my co-workers to read, and they relish it too ... whenever there is a problem and it didn't get delivered on time (or not at all), I saunter into the office and glumly state: "The Post didn't get delivered this morning" :( What a bummer ....
Hmm. A boycott with zero impact on revenues to the paper. I’m sure the opposite will be true.
Oops! I committed an Obama.
I was thinking the c artoon was featured in the Post not the times.
Are the Libs eating their own?
Being offended is a political tactic that works. That's the only reason Sharpton and others are "offended."
This is typical they see whatever they want to be offended about, yet nobody wants to admit the damned stimulus package LOOKS like a crazy monkey wrote it...
Anyone have a link to the cover in question? Might be good to save for posterity sake!
(ref pic) Well, whaddayaknow? Sharpton with Charles “I wanna slap a white man” Barrons.
I hope the NYP doesn’t bow to this con job. Al Sharpton should be ashamed of himself for exploitation of the ignorant.
Race pimps like Sharpton have been laughing up their sleeves for years at their ability to stir outrage over artificial charges of racism that benefit themselves but do little toward resolving legitimate issues.
It’s a sad commentary on lack of knowledge and comprehension of events occurring currently in our lives that anyone could see that cartoon and read the blurb in the bubble and think it had anything to do with race.
Every time we allow these charlatans to succeed at their con games, the integrity of our whole system and culture is compromised.
I thought the leftists were claiming that BO didn’t write the bill.
You can browse all of Sean Delonas’ cartoons here, including yesterday’s:
http://www.nypost.com/delonas/delonas.htm
Sean is also a talented portrait artist. Unfortunately, his personal Web site is down. I wouldn’t doubt that he’s been threatened...
Stupidest thing I’ve heard of since the “niggardly” idiocy.
First you’d have to instill within them an intellect; then you’d have to teach them to read; and finally you’d have to buy each one a paper and pay them $50 each and some cool bling to pretend they’re reading it.
“excellent post! the dems have sort-term memory issues, obviously.”
There memories are fine. Its just that they dont care about logic or consistency. All that matters is what benefits their agenda. That means you forgive a RAT for doing what you crucified a Repub for doing yesterday.
The chimp queen with input from Harry “The Body” Reid and a chorus of assorted jackels, hyaenas and polecats.
Bush was shown assingnated in a TV ‘docudrama’! There was zero ambiguity in that.
I thought exactly that when I saw this headline. If I were stateside, I'd buy about 20 of them and hand them out to friends.
I'll be home shortly for a break. If this stupid boycott is still going on, I'll do just that and also see who their sponsors are and support whichever ones I can.
LOL!
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