Posted on 02/23/2009 12:33:46 PM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
Incredibly ridiculous.
There's no other way to describe the over-the-top political correctness that leads a major newspaper to issue a prophylactic apology for an unoffensive cartoon in the anticipation that someone somewhere will raise a fuss.
Yet that's what the Washington Post did yesterday in a correction posted on page A2 of the Sunday edition (via Jossip):
So Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post wrote an article called "Monkey Business" about men and women and their sexual fluidity, based on that New York Times trend piece from a couple weeks ago. But since the title of the article had the word "monkey" in it, and the accompanying picture was of a cartoon monkey, WaPo needed to clear up any misconceptions vis-a-vis The Post cartoon and our current president.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Do you remember the website: BushOrChimp.com ?
We should be able to call him whatever we please.
Is that Chrissy Mathews?
“We should be able to call him whatever we please.”
We can. And we should not in any way bow to political correctness.
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At least we can call him an oreo, like Mike Steele was called.
I did that a long time ago, the Bush images are okay and even funny.
The Obama images are banned.
Both tee shirts were submitted to multiple places, the bush one is still for sale. The Obama one was immediately banned.
Here is the Bush shirt for sale at CafePress:
www.cafepress.com/bushtest
I set the price exorbitantly high so that nobody actually ordered one of either. It was just a test.
When I see a depiction of an ape, I don't associate that image with a black person. I would imagine that most people think this way.
Not so for the liberal. When they see an image of an ape, in any context, they immediately correlate the image with African people, in order to determine if the image is somehow "racist." They automatically go there.
What does that say about the way they think?
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