A questionable cartoon

So much for our new, post-racial society. I hope our President handles this latest insult with the grace and charm that he's exhibited on other occassions. A racial firestorm is the last thing this country needs right now. There's too much work left to be done to be distracted by ignorant cartoonists.

While you could read race into this.. I think the cartoonist was just saying that the bill could have been written by chimps...

Actually the chimp resembles Michelle more than it does Barack. Besides, all Democrats know that blacks and Democrats are incapable of racism and discrimination. It is okay for Democrats to demonize and destroy anyone they disagree with in any way. Who was it who called Bush a chimp for 8 years?

I laugh at some pretty horrid things. I laugh at gore, dead bay jokes and what not, but this makes me cringe. First off, yes its racist, but so is the cartoonist, so no surprise. My issue is the lack of amusement. Come on! That was the best he could do?! If you are gonna cause an uproar at least make it funny! The reaction that is supposed be "OMG, that is soo wrong! but sooooo funny!" instead the only thing I feel is "Wow, its racist." Not even a laugh! Because the dude is not funny. Why not put a swastika in its place? It gets the same reaction as his cartoons, no lulz, just racism. tdrl, if your gonna make a racist joke, make it funny.

What's the matter lefties? Can dish it out, but can't take it? You better grow yourself a pair. Obama will be exposed for what he is.....an empty suit who has no business leading this country. Bank on it.

WHETHER OR NOT THE INTENT WAS TO BE RACIAL, YOU HAVE 4 THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT BE CONNECTED:
1. A GUN AND DEPICTION / REPRESENTATION OF SOMEONE BEING SHOT.
2. A REFERENCE TO A POLITICAL LEADER OR GROUP.
3. FOREKNOWLEDGE THAT BLACKS HAVE BEEN CALLED APES / MONKEYS TO DEGRADE THEM.
4. AND FOREKNOWLEDGE THAT BLACKS IN AMERICA HAS BEEN LYNCHED AND ASSASSINATED.

It is not about president bashing. You can "bash" all you want about the idiotic things a person in power does. However, that depiction is not about substance; It is clearly an ad hominem attack and was done in poor taste. It needs to be removed and, at minimum, an apology is necessary.

QUESTION? WOULD ONE BE OK TO MAKE FUN OF THE VICTIMS OF 911 WITH A REFFERENCE THE SONG DISCO INFERNO (by The Trammps), AND JUMP (BY Van Halen), NO!! BECAUSE OUT OF RESPECT, CERTAIN THINGS SHOULD NO BE TOUCHED. NOW IF Sean Delonas, IS TO STUPID NOT TO SEE THE CONNECTIONS THEN PERHAPS HE/SHE SHOULD NOT BE EMPLOYED AT THE POST, HOWEVER IF HE/SHE KNEW THEY ARE A FLAMING RACIST.
AND SHOULD NOT BE EMPLOYED AT THE POST.

The New York Post should be ashamed. This cartoon is an an insult to all primates! No monkey with half a brain would have written let alone voted for the porkulus bill.

"White-skinned", "colored-skinned", "red-skinned" races/cultures...I have read all of these comments and the responses implying we should "get over it" are hurtful to many. I am multi-racial of all three "skins" combined and bottom line is, the cartoon was written by a heartless male (NOT man). It goes deeper than the surface of the visuals. Anyone with sense can see the underlying message. True, we are entitled to "freedom" of speech, BUT there is something called respect that we each deserve and should give each other. George Bush was called a monkey because HE acted like one. Obama is a REAL president and is doing more in his first couple of months than Bush ever did in his 8 years of Presidency. He does not look nor act like a monkey and for those many closed-minded people on issues like this, keep permitting ignorance to be your bliss and see where it leads you.

Al Sharpton needs to heal his subconscious that he is not a monkey and he won't be hurt. Remember that you are what you think you are! Release yourself of inferiority complex.

Okay. We've got WORDS that have been STRICKEN from the lexicon. They're letters, now. NOW, it seems like we're gonna get an 'Acceptable Animal' List. You can PAINT anything about THE REAL MESSIAH. Or HIS MOTHER. Or HIS FATHER. But watch what you write, or draw, about the NEW Messiah. Can't use a Monkey, apparently. What about a PIG? Can we use a pig? I could be wrong, but I don't recall ANY outrage when CONDOLEEZA RICE was PICTURED, shall we say...unflatteringly? And how many times was she referred to as 'The House NEGRO'? Hmmm? And I don't remember that FAT NEGRO, Al Sharpton, making a PEEP.

This is 1st amendment USA like it or not. Al Sharpton (and others) are the true racists. They never miss a chance to keep racism alive and in the news. It's disgusting how everyone seems to continually fall for it. Sheesh!

Maybe it's just because they got those guys that stole all of the looto dollars out in Antigua, Houston, Texas. Maybe the president went ape in excitement.
Maybe they should start telling white guy jokes.
Heard the one about the white guy that thought he was an African in his last life?
No?
Yeah, he wanted special dispensation.
It only takes a buck and a liittle bit of luck but you've got to be in it to win it.

With the publication of this cartoon New York Post has defined itself as a editorially racist , and politically Anti-American.

To all the hsyterical pinheads screaming racism:

Nancy Pelosi and her comrades wrote the bill, not Obama. Her and her colleagues are a bunch of raging chimps. Stop it with the victimology.

If Al believes the monkey is Bam, why isn't Al troubled that someone just SHOT the monkey?????

For #47- They do have special groups..

KKK
Skin Heads

You a member??????????

Poor Travis the chimp. One day dead and already the butt of cruel jokes. Poor animal.

Anyone who mentions a monkey/chimp/ape is racist. If you depict a dead monkey you are a violent racist. I think that much is obvious. Certain images should just be illegal to show, dead chimps are high on that list. Racism is the most important issue in America today, not the financial crisis and the stimulus/socialism bill. Let's move on, really.

This is totally racist and anyone who thinks differently is obviously a racist...I hope that this cartoonist gets fired!

In response to dragonfly it wasn't the OBaMa admistration that started passing the bucket.. I'm a 30yr old female and I have known for years that this country's dept would be passed onto me and my children so give me a damn BREAK!

Your comments that President Obama (shows how much respect you people have for him can't even call him the president but oh well he is) is a bozo and unqualified are as idiotic as yourself. You're obviously a racist idiot who lacks intelligence.

This "cartoon" is not a reflrction on Obama, nor the monkey.
It simply shows what you can expect from the New York Post.
The cartoon is not funny, it is simply put, mean spirited.

Is this man real? WTF. I think the Secret Service needs to have a talk with all of you WS. Get it through your thick skulls, President Obama will not be moved by NONE OF YOU!!! Don't get it twisted. That so called cartoon is nothing but RACISM!!! and if you can't see that, then let me introduce you to your real self... YOU ARE A RACISTS!!! A cowardly, spineless, skirt hiding, hood wearing RACISTS. This is why I cancelled my subscription to this newspaper. Wake up this is the 21st century and we are not all narrow minded 18th century idiots! Get with the 21st Century you may like it! You are a sb and should have been ab at birth!!!!!

I find it funny that all my life, parents etc. we have been force to see an America that is not reflective of us. Past Presidental families fail to deplict the muticultural America that we have come to know. Now that there is an African American presents, White America has there panties in a bunch! Where is the justice, it feels good to be able to tell my son that oneday he can be President of the most Powerful Country in the WORLD!! A Black Man as the decision maker.

20 years from now, no one will remember the incident of the violent chimp. And when the anniversary documentaries roll on the election of the first black president, this cartoon will appear as an example that America had still not gotten over its racist past.

It's a dumb cartoon, I disagree with its message (such as it is) but honestly doubt the cartoonist's intent was racist. The takeaway is: "the stimulus bill is so bad, it might as well have been drafted by a monkey." If the cartoonist had wanted to convey the idea that 'Obama is a monkey', he would have had any number of caricaturist's tools at his disposal to do so: putting a suit and tie on the chimp, making the animal's face resemble O's etc etc. That he didn't do any of these things tells me that wasn't his intent.
So my verdict is: Lame-YES, Insensitive to possible interpretations- YES, Intentionally racist - NO.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Re. Al Sharpton and/or his insinuated motives. The cartoon is clearly and implicitly mocking the new leader of the free world-President Barack Obama who happens to be oh..."Black". You don't have to be a rhode scholar or a rocket scientist to see the clear implication here. President Obama wrote and the house collectively passed the new stimulus bill. There is also a case pending in Stamford, CT regarding a person being mauled by a chimpanzee that was later killed/died. I don't see the correlation at all!!! I am not one of those naive persons who think that just because the United States now has a black President, all the injustices formerly imposed will now be lifted. CASE IN POINT WITH THIS DEPLORABLE CARTOON. This is beyond unacceptable and the NY Post's position of acceptance speaks further to the audacity, disrespect and bigotry of white america!!!

If you are offended, the monkeys and apes (nay maggots) are smarter than you.

Your CIC (crackhead in chief) is not my president, and I will not respect him.
For 8 years the left moonbats referred to Bush as "the chimp" on many of their websites and posts. You can keep your affirmative action chimp president.
Get used to the same treatment you dished out to our president for 8 years.

Regardless if you feel as though this cartoon is innapropriate or not, you can not ignore the racist undertones of comparing African Americans to monkeys. This comparison WAS a part of this country's history and an ugly part at that. To create (the illustrator) or to publish (the editors) a cartoon with such undertone is irresponsible and ignorant. Americans come in different shapes, colors, religions, races and sensitivity levels. At some point, we need to be mindful of these sensitivity levels and stop turning a blind eye towards it.

The cartoon has racial overtones and everyone knows it becaue if they didn't see it we wouldn't be commenting on it. The New York Post has always tried to stur up trouble to have more people read their paper. Look what they caused and how people are behaving. Al Sharpton has nothing to do with the person or the paper who made the cartoon, he is the person that commented and people really don't hear his words when he describes the wording and illustration in the cartoon. America is racist and we all know. Words won't be said in someone's face but used in other ways.

FOR ALL THE NAYSAYERS AND NEO-CONS/NEO-NAZIS , THAT ARE REFERRING TO MICHELL OBAMA AS THE MONKEY AND ARE CALLING AL SHARPTON AN MONEY ARE PROVING TO US WHO THE REAL MONKEYS ARE.

Question for all you history buffs: Who was called "ape of the prairie"?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln! Cartoons of ole Abe as a monkey were quite common.
Be sure to check out www.bushorchimp.com.
Congress wrote the bill, so equating the chimp to the president is a figment of the liberal imagination.

How stupid can someone be to
1. create this piece of racist trash
2. Whoever published the thing

To plead ignorance as a defense for this one is not acceptable!! All the hands that this passed through should be fired immediatley!! no severence, no vacation....That is it!!

THE PEOPLE THAT FIND NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS CARTOON WOULD BE THE SAME PEOPLE PRE WWII THAT WOULD HAVE SAID THIS:

"SO WHAT IF HITTER DRAWS THE JEWS LIKE RATS, THEY KINDA DO LOOK LIKE RATS. C'MON, BIG DEAL, WHATS HE GONNA DO EXTERMINATE THEM? "

"What's that he said?"
"I think he said the sheriff is a near!"

OK, for the sake of argument, let's agree the monkey is NOT the president and the cartoon is not racist. Just for the sake of argument. But it IS about the stimulus bill. Evidently the Post wants to insult the people of this country who are suffering from the disintegrating economy brought on by the likes of Rupert Murdoch & Co. The great majority of whom want the stimulus bill and know they will benefit from it. Including virtually all Republican governors. But the Post tells us that the motivation for the bill is similar to that of an insane monkey mauling a woman. That the police had to shoot. It's crude, it's stupid, it's insulting, and it sure as hell is not funny.

MESSAGE TO POST #120. Kay Daniel AKA EINSTEIN.
WHAT IF SOMEONE CALLED YOUR BROTHER, FATHER OR SON A SLUT OR WHORE?
NO BIG WOOP, RIGHT.
WELL WHAT IF THEY CALLED YOUR SISTER, MOTHER ,OR DAUGHTER A SLUT OR WHORE?
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RIGHT?
YES ITS A DOUBLE STANDARD. BUT IS A DOUBLE STANDARD FOR A REASON.
BLACKS WERE ENSLAVED DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AND POKED FUN OF BY CALLING THEM MONKEYS, NOT WHITES.
HOPFULLY ONE DAY THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT BUT THAT DAY HASN'T COME YET.

Al Sharpton is a race baiting bigot.

What if the cartoon has a picture of your pet shot to death? That's what I find offensive. there is no humor in killing animals.

In this day and age racism will always be present.Of all the cartoon's he could have drawn why did he choose this one? Can he be reached for comment? Probably not.
For those of you that do not agree with the stimulus package and thinks it stupid will also benefit from it. Are you going to return the benefits that come your way?
I don't think so. John Mayer's song Waiting on the world to CHANGE says it best.

NEWS MEDIA OR NEWS MAKERS?

During the final days of the Bush, Junior, Presidential Administration, there was a massive "Stimulus" distribution of over $800 Billion without any expectation of accountability for the use of the money. Consequently, not unlike the distribution of monies to energy and military contractors during the past few years, there was no stimulus to anyone except the friends and associates of the distributors.

Two days shy of one month following the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first black American President, who faces the extraordinary challenge of guiding this nation back to honor and morality through a recovery from an irresponsible financial and military free-for-all, the question of retribution and justice for the Bush abuses grips the hearts of the fearful.

A manipulation and redirection of that fear is underway in America which seeks to obfuscate the tragic reality of the previous abuses and focus it on a dependable American distraction: racism, overt and implicit.

The history of political humor in this country is long and pocked with shameful exposures of many of our flaws. The humorists declare that they are simply mirrors of the culture, often denying any ulterior motives, hidden agendas or biases in themselves. The truth of these declarations is debatable.

What is clear, however, is that the use of humor, targeted linguistics, manufactured conflict, refocusing and trivialization of important issues while sensationalization of insignificant isssues, has created a divided America which is in danger of becoming locked in inaction.

Humor that insults and inflames is not designed to create amusement. It is designed to exercise power.

So, when a political cartoon in a "prominent" newspaper becomes a news item itself, the process by which it became newsworthy warrants examination.

On February 18th, 2009, the New York Post published a cartoon by Sean Delonas, which showed a police officer declaring, after his mate has just shot dead, a chimpanzee, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next Stimulus Bill." On the same day, The Boston Globe published a column with a citation about the cartoon entitled, "President Obama, A questionable cartoon, by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor, claiming "An uproar is brewing about an editorial cartoon in today's New York Post that appears to tie President Obama to a rampaging chimpanzee killed by police."

As a psychiatrist, I find it interesting how American news media have become American news makers and how easy it is to manage the American public with such propaganda.

Some might argue that we can learn much about ourselves through our political cartoons. I would simply argue, that in America today, we can learn much about our news media owners through their political cartoons and the news they manufacture.

pelosi wrote the stimulus bill

Wow! This paper really has some narrow minded, scared readers who seem to live in a vacuum. But it's nice to see that some commenters can be objective and have a sense of history. Comparing this situation to Bush denies 2 things - First, Bush's idiotic actions, lack of intellect and his facial features, all of which justify the monkey comparison and none of which Obama shares. Second, the known history of comparing Blacks to monkeys to dehumanize them cannot be ignored when viewing the cartoon. Also, saying that Congress wrote thebill and not Obama ignores the reality that everyone and their mother associates this bill with Obama. I won't even get into the issue of the "shooting" or the insensitivity towards the Romans life who remains in critical condition as we speak. What I don't understand is why is it so hard for some human beings to empathize with others whose experience has been wholly different from theirs. How will it harm you in your everyday life to acknowledge that a group of people were enslaved right here for over 300 years, that legal opression only ended 40 years ago, and that it will take much more time and effort by all, including you, to "get over it!". Oh, and there are plenty of ways to make fun of our President that don't include relying on old racial stereotypes, just use your brain, that's what it's there for.

The problem is that the cartoon encourages violence, at the minimum. It implies that it would be OK to shoot whomever wrote the Bill. At its worst, it implies violence against the president. What would have been the response, a year ago, if a cartoon showed a dead cowboy and someone saying "Looks like we'll have to get a new Decider" ?

Shame on Sean Delonas. Shame, shame shame

Deborah Loza

The only racists I see here are the ones who look at a cartoon and see President obama when they see a chimp. I mean really? Am I the racist because I see an amusing reference to the fact that the stimulus bill makes as much sense as if a chimp wrote it, or are you the racist because you immediately jump to the conclusion that a chimp depicts out black president?

I think that question answers itself. Racists.

The cartoon is bad only because it isn't immediately apparent what connection the cartoonist is making between the slain chimp and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

It took a few seconds to realize the cartoonist is referring to the ARR Act as a manifestation of Congress having "gone ape" in wild enthusiasm for borrowing and spending. (Others, having called Bush "Chimpy" for years, saw a different connection.)

People grow up and get a thick skin. Its OK to intentionally show Mr. Bush as Hitler, but not to use satire against Mr. Obama's policies. Where was all that outrage for the past 8 years when Bush was attacked and yet the attacks continue with him out of office.

Come on...this is as racist as you get!!!! Shame!

What I am so surprised at the outright blatant racism that some seem to be proud of. It is worse than I thought. What some people are not aware of they will answer for someday....out of here

the thing that disturbs me the most is the amount of people who think Chimps are monkeys.

Chimps are apes, like Oragatan's, Gorrillas and humans.

Monkeys have tails, apes do not.

This is definitely a racist statement, & not very subtle. 2009 & still the same issues; will it ever end?

Wow! Wow wow wow! Unbelievable... the ignorance displayed by anyone trying to defend this cartoon. Liberals this, liberals that... freedom of speech this, freedom of speech that... If you are a racist biggot, stand up for what you belive, don't hide behind excuses. Yes, Bush was portraued as a monkey countless times, but only because of his stupidity, not his skin color.

Anyone defending this should be ashamed of themselves. You are un-American... move back to the 18th century and let us prosper, PLEASE.

The ugly is coming out. People will not accept Obama for who he is the President of the United States of America. Is this cartoon racist "NO" but it is in bad taste and another slap in the face for our country "YES". Let me explain--comments and pictures always start out as a laugh--until someone carries out the joke and mockery. For example, Holocaust interview any Jewish person it was funny at first until Hitler carried the deed out and Jim D. Adkisson's who shoots up church because he read people are too liberal. This is not what our country needs. I am an African American and people always asked why are you so sensitive about race in the U.S. because I know what starts out as a laugh turns dangerous.

Unfunny and disrespectful propaganda. At least someone in DC is trying, and this is the best the loyal opposition can muster?

What a bunch of ... as Eric Holder USAG would say ... "cowards"

You folks are too concerned with wagging your finger. Lighten up. You cowards.

I am saddened by seeing a cartoonist or anyone depict a person of such integrity and the leader of our country in this manner. We are all aware of what this cartoonist was blantantly saying. There is no undertones going on in this picture. We all know what it is when we see it, hear it, and is expose to it. This cartoonist has no shame, but why should he look who he works for and remember the New York Post is also connected to FOX , and we know how they love President Obama. Think about it!!!!

We must boycott all Macys department stores. . We must concentrate our actions on bringing down one new york post advertiser at a time, starting with Macys. With the economy as bad as it is, it will not take long for our boycott to be felt and we will be saving money at the same time. There are Macys stores all over the United Sates. LET'S GET BUSY. Forget about rallying in the cold outside of the new york post building. I'm talking about hitting the new york post in the pocketbook, because as its ad pages dry up, it will be the one lying on the ground bleeding to death!

JtotheZ, you are the one who should be ashamed. Obama didn't write the stimulus bill, so therefore it would be idotic to see him represented as the monkey. Besides, who the hell said it was tied to skin color? It's attacking the stimulus bill. You are playing the race card, plain and simple. You're disgusting, as is anybody who attacks the cartoon for saying it is something it isn't. America is becoming full of wusses.

I am from the south, I am white, and I think the cartoon was insensitive at the very best, and racist at the worst. I was shocked. They're not stupid, they knew what kind of reaction it would get , how it would be perceived, and that it would offend a lot of people, and still published it. Why would you do that? The episode with the chimp was disturbing and very sad, nothing to use in a cartoon. President Obama is faced with a great challenge, left with a big mess from 8 years of Republican reign, and at least he's trying to do something.

Oh come on!! I'm an Obama supporter and even I can understand that not everyone agrees on the value, effectiveness or clarity of the stimulus bill - for those of us who aren't so rabidly partisan as to have lost our sense of humor, joking that it could have been written by a chimp is funny - that's all. George Bush was called a chimp outright over and over, and he isn't black!

It's no surprise that you blind liberal fanboys would immediately suggest racism. It's not like you know how government actually works, only that OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT AND HE IS 1000% BLACK AND HE WILL FIX ALL OF THE MISTAKES THAT IDIOT BUSH MADE!!!!!!! 1/20/2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congress writes bills and then the President signs or vetoes the bills. The cartoon says they'll need to find someone else to WRITE the next stimulus bill. Now, going back to our lesson, CONGRESS WRITES BILLS and the President signs or vetoes them. Get it? No? I'll keep trying. The artist is suggesting that CONGRESS is made of monkeys that miserably failed at WRITING this stimulus BILL, which is true.

This cartoon is highly suggestive and extremely disturbing. The Post's defending this irresponsible, insensitive propaganda is even scarier than permitting it's release in the first place. At a time when the threat of the President's assasination is real, this is a sick depiction. It's impossible to believe that any thinking person can't see how offensive this is and anything less than a sincere, heartfelt apology by the Post and the cartoonist is throwing salt in the wound.

Another excellent example of the hidden racism in America that has expanded. Have you forgot about the New York 's Greenwich Village bakery Lafayette French Pastry offering a "Drunken Negro Cookie" in honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama. This is how racist and bigots get their kicks and use these opportunities for recruitment. Check out # 116 comments. He denotes Obama as CIC (Crackhead in Chief) and "affirmative action chimp president" that is not his president. And for you who disbelieve this is racist, insensitive, or whatever; wake up and smell the coffee that is what the racists want you to do. Pretend such hatred doesn't exist unless you slapped in the face or worst yet, lynched, murdered, and hanged.

THAT WAS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST CARTOONS I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME!!!! I JUST HOPE THAT THE MONKEYS DON'T START GETTING A BAD RAP FOR BEING AS STUPID AS OBAMA!!!!!!!

Foon Rhee,you are just a real bent twig. The 'chimp' reference refers to the 'chimp' who wrote the porkulous bill,not to Obama. All you over at the Globe know how to do is keep the pot stirred--well it gets you a paycheck,doesn't it?
You who are 'shocked' ,are so because IN YOUR OWN RACIST TWISTED MINDS you think the chimp in the cartoon equals Obama--well it DOESN'T--were you just as shocked when the former President was referred to as ChimpyBushHitler,for the last EIGHT YEARS? Or when a cartoon showed the Secretary of State barefoot and in rags,in a rocking chair,legs splayed out,looking like a 'ho.' There are many more examples from the last eight years we could produce. You load of hypocrites,cowards,and just plain silly twits! Only in your sad simple lefty liberal racist minds would you think so dully and come up with such nonsensical conclusions.
Do your mothers know what your'e doing?

You people are funny. Was this all you had to complain about today?

First, Obama didn't write the bill. Hell, he didn't even read it.
Second, the bill was not read by a single member of either house that voted on it. It's more than 1,000 pages long and the House and Senate both announced that because of the size, they wouldn't vote on it for 48 hours. They lied, and did so 10 hours after it was written.

Show of hands...how many of you can read 1000+ pages in 10 hours? Answer...none.

The chimp is used a) because it's in the news and b) because a monkey, or a donkey, or a sloth could've drafted and voted on a better "stimulus" package.

Get over yourselves people. Not everyone is out to get what you believe in.

I read this article twice - one published by a liberal writer and another story by a regular writer. The comments by liberals ranged that the man who calls himself president was "sent by God" to save this nation to even more truly insane remarks. The more normal writer received comments that were more rational in nature. How silly. Some of those far left people really are dumber than a bucket of rocks!

I guess sharpton must feel he is related to the monkeys, because i and all my white boys didn't even make that connection. This is the same old BS, every time a black guy does something wrong or illegal it always becomes that whitey is a racist. The truth of the matter is that the news media and the al sharptons of the world keep racism and race hatered alive , as this sells news papers and keeps hatred fired up in the black population. It is very important that the blacks hate the whites and blame them for everything otherwise they may have to take responsiblity for themselves and their actions.

Shame on the New York Post. The cartoon is terrible on so many levels. It is shockingly racist and implies that it is OK for the NYPD to murder in a bloody shooting no matter the circumstance.

I have canceled my subscription to the Post and will be boycotting Macy's.

Let me get this straight, liberal cartoonists draw George W. Bush as a monkey for eight years and every liberal in America applauds. Now Sean Delonas draws Obama as an out of control monkey and RACISM is in play.

Now.. .if these people felt that the monkey is not racist for GWB and yet feel it is racist for Obama, that means that they are themselves racists (not to mention race-baiters).

Bravo bravo my liberal friends... you are now up to 300 cases of blatant hypocrisy per day. Sprinkle in a little race-baiting and you're in heaven.

You all miss the point of this cartoon. The Post knew right up front that this would be controversial but printed it anyway. They did it because they knew it would get them lots of publicity. It worked.

It 's not too surprising that the rest of the world sees us as a bunch of idiots, when we pay homage to the work of a useless cartoonist. There is only one race in this world that, always feels it's got to put down other races, to give credence to its survival. Only one race! When you think about it enough, you'll understand why that sentiment has been pass on from generation to generation. IF YOU CAN'T PUT SOMEONE DOWN TO VALIDATE YOURSELF, WHO WOULD YOU BE? A NOBODY AND A NOTHING. So, you see, it's not about ignorance and stupidity. Now you know.what it truly is about.

So liberals believe that a drawing of a monkey must be a reference to President Obama because he is black? Huh? What? The only people relating monkeys to black people here are liberals. So doesn't that make liberals the racists?

It is a very funny cartooon. It is obvious that Obama had no hand in writing the stimulus pakage and that it is so bad that a chimpanzee could have done it. It is also obvious that he he no knowledge of Geithnerr's testimony. Afterpromising a specific plan from Geithner, the nexxt day young Tim went before congress and said he had no plan. The market fell 300 more points and he made Obama look foolish.I hope Eric Holder's reference to racial cowardice in the country includes the politically correct crowd. Apparently they only see humor in scathing attacks on their enenmies.

Idiots!!! Get over it. Change has come!

Hal, if you refuse to see how racist that cartoon is then you must be a republican conservative and of course a racist.

There were a lot of cartoons comparing Bush to monkeys. The issue's a non-starter.

Did anybody really expect better of the New York Post? They're playing to the base. That's all they know how to do. You might as well rail at a baby for pooping its diaper, and if people want to buy the diaper, it's their money.

this is still news? seriously, stop the whining

I am actually now going to subscribe to the New York Post.

When will the New York Times finally go out of business?

I like how liberals call Republicans racist and yet they're the ones making the tie between Obama and the monkey, when Obama didn't even read, let alone write the bill. George Bush was compared to a monkey, yet that was somehow magically okay while this isn't? You fools are ruining this country with your politically correct bile and hypocrisy, not to mention this quest to censor anything that you don't agree with. Pathetic fools.

For the people who say Bush put up with worse, you are wrong. All politicians should be open to lampoon, and even personal mockery---that's what satire in the free world is. This is totally different because it seems to make not an ad hominem attack but an attack based on race, and then adds in the prospect of assassination--an all too real fear in the last century or so.

For those who say it was not meant to be racist, I agree that is possible. But except on some twisted racist level, I don't see how the cartoon makes any sense. At the very least, the catoonist and editors made a stupid mistake in not anticipating the connection the cartoon makes to the worst realities of the American past, and the worst fears of the future. No one is calling for censoring the paper, just for rightly criticizing them and perhap protesting them by withholding our purchasing dollars.

sense. At the very leaset, the catoonist

To: Posted by dragonfly777 February 18, 09 11:52AM: Shame on you Dragonfly, you yoursefl sound like a racist to me based on your quote: "I saw the cartoon. All you racist whiners are just that. Always looking for a crutch to prop up Obama because he is a bozo and unqualified. The cartoon is a depiction of congress and the fact that they are enraged monkey's to pass such a abominable debt on to our children. So get off your racist wagon. Everyone knew when Obama took office if he couldn't blame it on Bush, then his cult would pulll the race card."

Look at yourself in the mirror and you will see you are actually a bozo monkey.

The Post has reached a low point ; even if you accept their lame excuse it
is not racist it shows incrediby bad taste in it's subject for a cartton . A
woman lies in a hospital having had her face ripped off , the police officers
and hospital workers are receiving counselling for being involved in the
aftermath . The owners have lost a longtime pet gone mad . This would be
as if the Post took another tragedy and used it as a point of fun . They have
no decency at the very least , and those who buy the paper are complicit .

Those people responsible need to be prosecuted for a hate crime.

I am tired of the division and hate mongering that is the modes operandi of the right wing. We need to stop people who would divide our country with such garbage before we end up as another Nazi germany.

Wasserman's take sums up my opinion well.

A quick "howdy" to all the angry, racist "comment rats" on this page and this site! Now step away from your PC, step around those empty pizza boxes, beer cans and losing lottery tickets, walk up your mom's basement stairs and go outside and get a life!

What an insult!!! What a travesty. How despicable - to dare compare a chimpanzee, or any other intelligent primate, to the empty-headed imbecile currently occupying the White House! And to try to excuse the sheer insanity of the porkulus spending bill by blaming it on a helpless chimpanzee just to spare the Obamarrhoid the embarassment of having people point out the Emperor's New Clothes!!! Shame, shame, shame!

Oh, WAAAAH ! It's... sniff sniff... hate speech!!! Somebody call my Mommy, that mean cartoon made me wet my little boy panties and stamp my little foot! Oh, bad, bad people. Hate hate hate. Waaaaah!!!! Waaaaaaah!!!!!!!

People are so closed minded that if someone that they don't personally like is insulted they fail to see the wrong in it. Funny how most of the people on here would probably consider themselves Christian but not come close to following the basics of Christianity.
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I guess Heaven wasn't made for everyone.

dissapointedyetagain, the only hate mongerers are the left wing idiots like you who keep the elephant in the room by pulling the race card. You're the true racist. What part of Obama didn't write the bill don't you morons understand? What part of Bush was shown as a monkey don't you morons understand?

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Blacks are the true RACIST BLAH BLAH
LEFT WING BLAH BLAH
OBAMA BLAH BLAH the CLINTONS BLAH BLAH
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GROW AN INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT!!!!!!!

That Travis cartoon is not only in bad taste. It is downright evil.

Those people responsible need to be prosecuted for a hate crime.

No, sorry, as ugly as this cartoon is, it's protected by the First Amendment - and it ought to be. Hate crimes have to be criminal even when not motivated by bias, and then bias calls for enhanced sentencing.

Even people who speak ugly sentiments have rights. Look around you!

Delonas says about criticism "its friggin ridiculous". Delonas needs to see a shrink and no one should buy the New York Post anymore. They must really be in trouble if they condone that cartoon. They need to go out of business.

such a tempest in a teapot.Never show a picture of an elected official next to someone holding a gun.was it racist ? yes do i care? no
i find it amazing how often during the reagan\bush years the press was called
the liberal left.: ) one of the most conservative bodies in the U.S.
comparing bush to a monkey...i did it too and felt guilty while doing so.
but.....his class and race was never commonly depicted as simians'no past bad
associations with doing so. had i been crass i would have called him a lynch mob
redneck......didn't though.but the real issue is that the repugs and right (synonyms?) would rather do nothing rather do nothing to fix the countrys woes than take the chance that obama might get credit for helping us all out?
wow (I would rather let my house burn down than let that guy help save it)
what? oh well the bread and circuses continues

I enjoyed all the political cartoons lampooning Bush. They seemed appropriate to me. I don't like the cartoons trying to make the creator(s) of the current stimulus bill appear as monkeys, whether it's a racial thing or a poke at any of the creators of the bill. The bill is the best we have for now, and most Republicans as well as Democrats will probably benefit from it as it succeeds, although they seem too dense to appreciate it.

yo this is retarded the only way the american community can survive is on these jokes!!!