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NAACP Wants NY Post Editor And Cartoonist Fired
AP Report ^ | February 21, 2009

Posted on 02/21/2009 5:19:02 PM PST by Steelfish

NAACP wants NY Post editor and cartoonist fired

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Barack Obama.

Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called on the tabloid to remove editor-in-chief Col Allan, as well as longtime cartoonist Sean Delonas.

Earlier this week, the newspaper apologized to anyone who might have been offended by the image printed Wednesday, which some say likens Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police in Connecticut. Jealous said the cartoon was "an invitation to assassination."

On Thursday, after protests by notable figures including director Spike Lee, the paper posted an editorial on its Web site saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, but "to those who were offended by the image, we apologize."

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To: Steelfish
Benjamin Todd Jealous

LOL, what a name.

41 posted on 02/21/2009 6:05:38 PM PST by KJC1
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To: KJC1

Benjamin Todd JEALOUS .....yeppers !! What a name for the leader of the COLORED people !!!!!!


42 posted on 02/21/2009 6:11:04 PM PST by jmax
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To: mamelukesabre

Unfortunately, no. The NAACP doesn’t need Farakand to teach them how to act crazy. As Rush said this is payback time for a lot of these guys. Just listen to the Attorney-general talking.


43 posted on 02/21/2009 6:15:24 PM PST by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: 353FMG
The NAACP is starting to act like the Muslims in Europe when the Danish cartoons were published. Any connection?

No, not really. The NAACP has been acting this way since as far back as I can remember.

44 posted on 02/21/2009 6:16:23 PM PST by Polybius
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To: TV Dinners
I don't see them doing that. Instead of following the Jethro Gibbs rule—Never apologize!—they did only to find, of course, that it didn't end there.
45 posted on 02/21/2009 6:16:52 PM PST by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: digger48
"Jealous said the cartoon was "an invitation to assassination." "

Lincoln?

Bambam is so hell bent on being compared to Lincoln...does he not know how Lincoln died?

Also, it was cops not civilians who shot the munkey. So NAACP better not read more into the cartoon than there already is.

PS: I hope the munkey didn't go berserk during the time Hussein was giving a uhm...er...ahh...uh... speech. That would have caused anyone to go apes**t

46 posted on 02/21/2009 6:21:39 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: digger48

Yup.
Too bad people are fools.
Ruined what may of been a good thing for the country.


47 posted on 02/21/2009 6:22:44 PM PST by mowowie
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To: Steelfish

They are just showing their ignorance.

No one pays much attention to blacks throwing out the race card anymore, the thing is as haggard as Helen Thomas and a bit uglier..


48 posted on 02/21/2009 6:27:02 PM PST by Venturer
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Why write?
Anything negative is pure racism you know.


49 posted on 02/21/2009 6:27:18 PM PST by mowowie
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To: mowowie

We should flood the NAACP office with mail and tie up their phone lines.


50 posted on 02/21/2009 6:30:05 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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To: Steelfish

Thanks to Obama there will never again be a black President.

The NAACP is so full of shit that if they exploded the Sun would stink.


51 posted on 02/21/2009 6:30:35 PM PST by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: Steelfish

I can recall more than a couple of political cartoons that portrayed Bush as a monkey with big ears. Nothing heard from this collection of racist pimps about any of those. Piss off and go back to kissing BO Plenty’s ass.


52 posted on 02/21/2009 6:34:09 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Steelfish

The NAACP is easily offended. The cartoon only fit their interpretation if you are looking for a reason to jump on someone critical of the Obama adminstration as it has performed so far. Obama’s performance doesn’t pass the smell test.


53 posted on 02/21/2009 6:40:21 PM PST by hgro (Jerry Riversd)
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