blog.newser.com - 2/19/2009
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Well, yes, it would require quite a contortion to find that Rupert Murdoch s New York Post had not compared the first black president to a monkey in an editorial cartoon. Now, it is true that the Post has a certain vernacular involving public figures and comical animals that many people have ...
nypost.com - 2/20/2009
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nypost.com —
Last updated: 8:42 am February 20, 2009 Posted:
12:55 am February 20, 2009 Wednesday's Page Six cartoon...
- caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy. It shows two police officers ...
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THAT CARTOON - New York Post
news.yahoo.com - 2/18/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
NEW YORK A New York Post cartoon that
some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to...
a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police drew outrage Wednesday from civil rights leaders and elected officials who said it echoed racist stereotypes ...
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NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/20/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
For those who are late to the party,
recently George Will wrote a column claiming, most broadly,...
that in the 1970s there was a scientific consensus that the world was suffering from “global cooling” that was as firm as the current ...
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Washington Post Stands By Climate Change Denialism
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Murdoch, livid?
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff offers his psychoanalytic take on the flap over the stimulus cartoon, and this interesting riff and prediction: ...
A Chimp on His Shoulder
Six Meat Buffet —
Is the Connecticut Chimp a thinly veiled stand-in for our President who I hear is black?
Like the shark rising to the chum, the race huckers are seeing red. You know, like the blood of the former owner of Freddie’s Fashion mart.
At the risk of being cowardly and not engaging in racial dialogue, I’ll only say that if you have a lucrative grievance schtick, you’re likely to play it at every turn. Like they say, if all you have is a hammer, you’re likely to see every problem as a nail.
The shining part of this ...
No, we're not going to reproduce THE cartoon, but we're astonished by the spectacle unfolding -- is Col Allan really defying Rupert Murdoch?
DownWithTyranny! —
... ) -- seemed confident that, as he had indicated on his blog, Mr. Murdoch himself was so upset that Allan's days at the paper were numbered -- the assumption is that he's been preparing for a return to Australia anyway. Wolff insisted that Rupert actually likes Obama, and wants good relations with him -- also reminding us of his theory that Murdoch has in fact been liberalized by his present wife. ...
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Rupert Murdoch: Sorry for chimp cartoon —
The Swamp
by Mark Silva
The New York Post may have been somewhat equivocal in its printed apology for the cartoon about the author of the economic stimulus picturing a dead chimpanzee.
But the Post's publisher, Rupert Murdoch, pulled no punches in apologizing today for a cartoon that ...
Murdoch Apologizes for Chimp Cartoon —
Drudge Retort
Rupert Murdoch has apologized for the editorial cartoon depicting the author of the stimulus bill as a dangerous chimp who had to be shot. " As the Chairman of the New York Post , I am ultimately responsible for what is printed in its pages. The buck stops with me," Murdoch wrote. "Last week, we ...
Sharpton to meet F.C.C. over Murdoch —
Michael Calderone's Blog
Al Sharpton, who last week was protesting against the NY Post's chimp cartoon, is continuing his efforts against the Murdoch media empire. Tomorrow, he meets with the F.C.C. in Washington.
There, Sharpton will "discuss his call to review the waivers granted to Rupert Murdoch that ...
Murdoch apologizes for chimp cartoon —
Michael Calderone's Blog
Rupert Murdoch has a lot on his plate. In addition to a huge management vacancy within his global empire, the News Corp chief had to personally deal today with the NY Post's controversial chimp cartoon.
On Friday, the Post apologized to those offended by the cartoon, and now Murdoch has ...
Rupert Murdoch Nails Chimp Cartoon Apology —
Politics Daily
After reading Caleb's excellent story on the subject, I promised readers that I was going to weigh in on the NY Post chimp cartoon, and solve the debate once and for all. As it turns out, I no longer have to do it. Rupert Murdoch, in a rare example of any public figure getting this right, ...
Fox News Has No Opinion on NY Post Racist Chimp “Cartoon” —
News Hounds
On Wednesday February 18th , Rupert Murdoch rag the NY Post published a “cartoon” showing two white police officers standing over the body of a dead, bullet-riddled chimp. One holds a smoking gun and the other is saying, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." Har ...
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