Posted on 02/25/2009 1:44:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
“Some people take their funnies too seriously”
(Obscure Calvin and Hobbes quote)
Darling, don’t you monkey with the monkey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don’t you know you’re going to shock the monkey
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life
Bottom line is that CONGRESS wrote this piece-o-crap, NOT President Obama.
Anyone, and I MEAN ANYONE, who sees this as racist is plain and simply trying to deflect criticism away from the real problems within this stupid law!
Even as a kid, I thought that if blacks are so incensed about being depicted as monkeys don’t they then think that they DO look like monkeys?
I don’t think humans look like monkeys.
Apparently pointing out that he looks like a chimp or monkey is considered racist, whereas the Bush cartoons were not because Bush is a caucasian. Bush's Tourette's tics were exploited to suggest that when he curls his lip up he looked like a chimpanzee. As political cartoons go that seemed harmless. It's not clear the chimp cartoon about the stimulus bill was intended in any racist sense. But they will trouble stopping people from seeing the similarity. During the campaign someone had made a Curious George T-shirt which also drew protests, presumably for suggesting a resemblance to Obama, perhaps because of the ears. Some of those are posted online:
It seems fair enough for the media to observe the guidelines and avoid cartoons with apes, chimps, or monkeys. But that probably will not stop it from happening or from people noticing a resemblance.
Yeah, just like they did during their depictions of Bush.
What a moron this guy is.
The chimp in the cartoon is only a chimp. Without racial indignation, Al Sharpton would be nowhere.
1. Humor can take license to spoof people's looks and idiosyncrasies so cartoonists are free to mock and needle as long as it's for cartoonish effect
2. In this country we have full freedom of speech and expression
3. Do not portray Obama in any type of a negative fashion at all no matter what.
If these guidelines are followed, nothing bad will happen to any cartoonist, all addresses of which are known to the federal government.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well. - Booker T. Washington 1911
Funny. I took the ‘toon to mean that one of the “thousand chimps typing on a thousand typewriters” was shot for being out of control (like the pet). I didn’t take it as a jab at Obama, but comparing congress to a bunch of out of control chimps typing away for a stimulus bill.
The Cartoonists Association should ask which animals it would be acceptable to use in Obama cartoons (i.e. donkey, snake, dragon, frog, toad, skunk, weasle, porcupine, shark, lizard, badger, mouse, caterpillar, worm, scorpion, tick, mole, chipmunk, squirrel, etc.).
Some of the best humor ever
Calvin and Hobbes
While the world celebrates the anniversary of Darwin’s birthday, it at the same time condemns what Darwin and his followers believed in, that the negro could have been the missing link. I’ve seen hundreds of scientific illustrations from that era that tried to prove that.
There does seem to be this idea, popular among Social Darwinists and atheistic Darwinists, that evolution is seen
in differences within modern man. It also provided an ideological basis for the eugenics movement. Those ideas are still out there. And behind Planned Parenthood’s racism. It’s a little ironic then if they get Obama to push that in the schools to provide an ideological basis for their embryonic stem cell and cloning agenda.
What is up with monkeys being off limits? That’s crap. I call my son “monkey” all the time.
I've known some unfortunate people with that syndrome, and I saw no signs that he had it. A few ticcish habits, sure . . . but full blown de la Tourette's is no joke.
Bush's lip curling and facial tics were the source of the cartoons, as with his tendency for verbal gaffes and humorous neologisms ("strategery"). Haven't heard any direct information on the diagnosis. His mother talked about some kind of reading issue, as a child.
Liberals did not complain much when Bush was likened to a chimp in political cartoons. Maybe that's the difference.
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