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From: Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:39 pm
Subject: How Low will the Racist & Conservatives go ????
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> Drawing criticism ... the cartoon, which refers to Travis the chimp, 
> who was shot to death by police. Photo: AP 
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> http://www.smh.com.au/world/newspapers-cartoon-links-obama-to-dead-chimp-20090219-8bmc.html
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> The New York Post is standing behind a cartoon that appears to compare 
> US President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by 
> police. 
> The cartoon in Wednesday's Post by Sean Delonas shows two police 
> officers standing over the body of a bullet-riddled chimp. One of the 
> officers says to the other: "They'll have to find someone else to 
> write the next stimulus bill." 
> Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called the cartoon "troubling at 
> best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being 
> synonymous with monkeys". 
> But Sharpton said the Post should clarify the point it was trying to 
> make with the cartoon, which was playing off Monday's rampage by a pet 
> chimpanzee in Stamford, Connecticut, that left a woman severely 
> mauled. Police ended up killing the chimp. 
> In a statement, Post editor-in-chief Col Allan said: "The cartoon is a 
> clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent 
> chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to 
> revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more 
> than a publicity opportunist." 
> A story about the cartoon on the liberal-leaning Huffington Post 
> website drew hundreds of reader responses, many calling the cartoon 
> racist and insensitive. 
> Sam Stein, a columnist for the site, wrote that "at its most benign, 
> the cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as 
> well have written it. Most provocatively, it compares the President to 
> a rabid chimp. Either way, the incorporation of violence and (on a 
> darker level) race into politics is bound to be controversial".
> Delonas, the long-time cartoonist for the Post's Page Six, is known 
> for heavy-handed caricatures. In a cartoon from last month, an 
> enormous Jessica Simpson dumps boyfriend Tony Romo for Ronald 
> McDonald, a clown used as the McDonald's mascot. 
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