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First reaction, WTF was the New York Post cartoonist thinking, drawing the cartoon in the first place?
Second reaction, WTF was the New York Post doing publishing it?
Rush Limbaugh’s recent "I hope he fails." campaign has reached down to small town American talk show hosts like Fargo’s Scott Hennen’s "I hope Pres. Obama’s socialist policies fail miserably." [Yes, he is the guy who chortled with Chee-knee about waterboarding. Figures.]
The rightwing Wurlitzer is ramping up the hate.
Now this disgusting cartoon published in a supposedly sophisticated marketplace like New York City. By the global empire of Rupert Murdoch.
Well, there’s a tradition Murdoch’s probably run across in his world travels — seppuku.
For the New York Post, and all of Murdoch’s global propaganda machine for that matter, I hope they commit media seppuku. Ritual disembowelment of the Murdoch presses and the Murdoch websites and the Murdoch networks.
No entity deserves it more than the Partners in Propaganda brainwashing machine that is Murdoch Media.
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crossposted at Prairie Sun Rising
19 Comments
I live in NYC and have read the Post for a number of years. I would tell you that the point of the cartoon is not racist. I would guess it to be referencing the old joke about a million monkeys in a million years typing Hamlet.
The NYP comes out with some things that are so recist that I simply am stunned sometimes. This would be too subtle for those folks.
It was a reference to this
http://www.time.com/time/healt…..ml?cnn=yes
That I knew. The chimp was the front page story for the Post with a picture running it’s length.
I disagree. The cartoonist’s point may not have been racist. May. But its collateral effect is.
And to tie shooting with the stimulus package’s writer is beyond the pale. This week of President’s Day with the recent rededication of Ford’s Theatre, where another President was assassinated together with this President being subject to extraordinary-enough threats that he got early-in-the-campaign Secret Service protection, well, you’d have to have your head firmly planted right up Murdoch’s butt to give this cartoon editorial approval….
Hmmmm. The thing explains itself.
Nevertheless, there are way too many crazies out there…and this is inflammatory and inciting pure and simple. Murdoch Media has gone too far. Again.
Do you ever read the Post? Have you seen some of the things they’ve run?
If not, then try finding some of the cartoons and editorials concerning our local and vocal Rev Sharpton.
The racism you’re decrying is subtle in comparison.
If this is subtle for the Post’s usual standards, then all the more reason to call “foul” on it.
Thanks PS.
It seems Mr. Delonas has some strange fantasies about our President. But then, that’s pretty much par for the course for Sean Delonas. Clearly a man with some major issues (like homophobia, and racism, and unabating rage)
http://gawker.com/5155855/ten-…..an-delonas
Anybody heard/seen any major media figures speak out on this? You know, the kind of voices who jumped ugly on Imus?
CNN covering story now.
Apparently the “artist” thinks the criticism is “friggin’ ridiculous”
From the CNN conversation now with Sharpton and Jeff Johnson of BET…
Sharpton points out that on the page right before the cartoon there’s a picture of Obama signing the stimulus package. There’s been a lot of talk in the blogosphere of the Post’s front page story about the chimp who attacked the woman in relation to the cartoon. But Sharpton’s notation of the juxtaposition of the stimulus bill signing picture with the cartoon just adds to its inappropriateness.
This isn’t about first amendment rights, noted Johnson [I think it was Johnson who made this comment], it’s about right and wrong.
Sharpton is an astute observer of racism and long-time practitioner.
What this has to do with a racist, inflammatory cartoon I do not know.
I am a middle-aged white woman from among the whitest of white states, North Dakota, and I didn’t need Sharpton to clue me in that it was racist and incendiary. I got that right from the first look.
I think it’s really bad. I had no idea about the crazy chimp story before I saw the cartoon. It’s a bad choice by the artist and the editors to publish something like this. Also, since the words have no reference to the crazy chimp, the image of the shot chimp is the only connection to the story.
I can’t say for sure if it’s intentionally racist but it deserve to be critiqued since there is the very real stereotype of monkeys and black people and nothing else connects concept to the crazy chimp.
Apologies for missing your post and adding another on this outrageous cartoon.
The cartoon fits Murdoch’s style to a “T”. He’s a performance artist, as well as a brilliant, ruthless, greedy player. Outrageousness has value for its own sake. That it comes at the expense of others, including legitimate free speech, which this is not, is a feature, not a bug. Like Limbaugh and Beck, it enlarges his power and fortune, a media little blue pill, and that’s what counts. He does it all over the world.
hey, link up your post here…I always believe in that “the more you know” campaign one of the networks used to do…and in the synergy of our blogging!
Here are some other cartoons. They’re just as awful.
Ten Cartoons from Sean Delonas
Be sure to stop by earlofhuntington’s post You Think Zoo Got Problems? Try the NY Post for excellent further commentary on this topic.
Excellent ’synergy’, Prairie and EOH.
Much appreciation to both of you.
DW