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Old 02-20-2009, 03:57 AM
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Default Re: Genius Thread II

We are talking about the New York Post. Tabloid journalism at its finest. They want you to be angry at their political cartoons.

Page Six.

News Corp.

Rupert Murdoch.

Fox News.

Quote:
Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.

It shows two police officers standing over the chimp's body: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.

It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.

Period.

But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.

This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.

However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

To them, no apology is due.

Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02192009...oon_155984.htm



and what is sad is that the lady treated the monkey like it was a human.



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