politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 2/24/2009
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NEW YORK (CNN) — The chairman of the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch,personally apologized Tuesday for an editorial cartoon published by thenewspaper that drew charges of racism.
"Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted," according to the statement from Murdoch, who is also Chairman and CEO of News [...]
New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate
huffingtonpost.com 2/18/2009 —
A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on Wednesday.
The drawing, from famed cartoonist Sean Delonas, seems rife with racial and political sensitivities. In it, two ...
NY Post Defends Cartoon, Slams Al Sharpton
huffingtonpost.com 2/18/2009 —
The New York Post has issued a statement defending its stimulus/chimp cartoon and slamming Rev. Al Sharpton for protesting the piece.
Here's the full statement by Col Allan, editor-in-chief of the Post:
"The cartoon is a clear parody of a ...
NY Post editor defends cartoon; knocks Sharpton
politico.com 2/18/2009 — The New York Post is defending its cartoon today but Sean Delonas where a police officer shoots a chimp -- playing off the rampaging Travis -- with one cop saying: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
The ...
New York Post's Dead Chimp Cartoon Draws Media Ire
newsbusters.org 2/19/2009 — A cartoon using the bizarre story of a recently killed pet chimpanzee to depict how terrible the just-enacted economic stimulus package is has drawn the ire of media outlets around the world. Appearing in Wednesday's New York Post, the cartoon (full ...
Another thing about the dead Obama monkey.
commentsfromleftfield.com 2/19/2009 — So, there are a lot of folks out there who are absolutely outraged by the New York Post cartoon.
As you can see in the post below, a cartoonist at this rag likened the President of the U.S. to a chimpanzee.
It is pathetic that this racist drivel would make it onto the pages of a mainstream ...
New York Post Employees Unhappy, Ashamed Of Offensive Cartoon
huffingtonpost.com 2/20/2009 — The mood inside the New York Post , it seems, is a mix of anger and bewilderment that the paper published a cartoon depicting the authors of the stimulus as a dead, crazed chimpanzee.
On Wednesday, an employee of the paper told the Huffington Post ...
Chimp-cartoon protestors march in N.Y.
swamppolitics.com 2/20/2009 — by Mark Silva
They were marching in the streets of New York today to protest the Post cartoon depicting a rogue chimpanzee as author of the nation's economic stimulus.
"End racism now,'' chanted demonstrators led by the Rev. Al ...
Going ape over the New York Post
michellemalkin.com 2/20/2009 — Al Sharpton and his race racketeers went ape over New York Post staffer Sean Delonas’s anti-stimulus editorial cartoon involving that famous crazed chimp . [...] Read the rest »
New York Post Apologizes... Except to Race Baitor Al Sharpton
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 2/20/2009 — Too funny. The New York Post issued a broad apology today for the Travis the Chimp cartoon that democrats insisted represented their president. Sean Delonas used the bizarre case of the crazed flesh-eating Travis the Chimpanzee to comment harshly on the Democrats' "stimulus" package. This ...
The Violent Rhetoric On The Right
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/20/2009 — As many of us feared, it's getting worse in defeat. As a reader noted, the real trouble with the New York Post cartoon - part from its lazy, dumb conflation of two completely unrelated stories - is that it presented gun violence as a legitimate ...
Obama Photo Preceded Cartoon Of Gunned Down Chimp
huffingtonpost.com 2/20/2009 —
In the page preceding a New York Post cartoon that depicts drafters of the stimulus legislation as a gun-downed chimpanzee, the paper published a large photo of Barack Obama signing that very piece of legislation.
The succession of the story ...
New York Post Apologizes for Racist Cartoon...Sort Of
shakespearessister.blogspot.com 2/21/2009 — After the Post ran a heinous editorial cartoon depicting the author of the stimulus bill as a rampaging chimpanzee, and after Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan insisted that there was nothing for which to apologize and called Al Sharpton an "opportunist" ...
Sean Delonas, Equal-Opportunity Asshat
shakespearessister.blogspot.com 2/21/2009 — Gawker put together a nice gallery of what they considered the ten most heinous images by Sean Delonas, the New York Post cartoonist responsible for the " stimulus-writing-monkey-shot-dead " cartoon. But I thought they didn't dig deep enough, so I ...
First they come for your monkey, then they come for your Fuehrer…
basilsblog.net 2/22/2009 — We mentioned the other day that monkeys are now off-limits for humo r. We pointed out that the left compared President Bush to a chimp often. But, after that cartoon in the New York Post , it seems that monkeys are now off-limits for humor. Because ...
Rupert Murdoch apologizes for racist Obama/chimp cartoon —
Crooks and Liars
News Corp. Chairman and part-time pirate Rupert Murdoch has finally come out and apologized for the blatantly racist cartoon that ran in last week's NY Pos t.
CNN :
The chairman of the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, personally apologized Tuesday for an editorial cartoon published by the ...
NAACP Launches Campaign Over NY Post Cartoon —
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By Krissah Thompson Whether he wants it or not, the NAACP launched a campaign on the president's behalf today. Members of the civil rights group, upset about the publication of a cartoon in the New York Post they say depicts President Obama as a murdered chimpanzee, planned small protests at Fox ...
A Message to the New York Post, Pt. 1 —
Booman Tribune
By now, everyone's seen it. Everyone's heard about it. (And everyone's blogged about it, but hey, this is the first moment I've had time. So here's the one millionth billionth blog post on the subject.) All you have to do is ask someone, "So, how about that New York Post cartoon?" You won't have ...
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 ...
Jay Smooth: Why Not to Feed the Trolls —
The Latest on Air America
As New York Post Chairman Rupert Murdoch issues an apology and boycotting continues against the newspaper, Jay-Smooth, hip-hop blogger, dissects the psyche of cartoonist Sean Delonas and why he believes protest is unnecessary.
Rupert Murdoch’s full apology after the jump. read more
Murdoch still fails to see he and his tools are racists .... —
At-Largely
Here is what the propaganda king has to say about the racist and violent cartoon published in the New York Post:
Over the past couple of days, I have spoken to a number of people and I now better understand the hurt this cartoon has caused. At the same time, I have had conversations with Post ...
Cartoon Controversy Makes Monkeys of Both Sides —
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Even a monkey could understand why so many are offended by Sean Delonas' cartoon in the New York Post.
Even a monkey could understand why so many are offended by Sean Delonas' cartoon in the New York Post depicting a chimpanzee shot by police. In the cartoon, one officer says to the other, ...
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