Author Topic: Sharpton cries foul over NY Post's cartoon monkey business (Read 3753 times)

thundley4 · « **on:** February 18, 2009, 05:10:45 PM »

This cartoon in the New York Post provoked some outrage from New York outrage-monger Al Sharpton today.
New York African-American leader has often been accused of stoking racial grievances. Is his criticism of a NY Post cartoon off the mark, or is the cartoon a racist shot at Obama?
The cartoon by Sean Delonas is a reference to the police shooting Monday of Travis, a celebrity chimpanzee who had gone berserk and seriously injured a woman.

In a statement, Sharpton said:

"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."

Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?" Link

I don't think they were making a racist comment in the cartoon. I got the point that a maniacal monkey could have done the same thing that Pelosi and Reid did.

RightCoast · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2009, 05:21:22 PM »

Mike220 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2009, 05:22:08 PM »

Why won't he die?

Did he make a deal with Satan?

MrsSmith · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2009, 05:36:44 PM »

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inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"

Who wrote the bill? It sure wasn't the President.

Mike220 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2009, 05:41:30 PM »

I don't know. I consider Pelosi and Reid to be monkeys based on all the shit they throw at us.

MrsSmith · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2009, 06:16:48 PM »

Quote from: Mike220 on February 18, 2009, 05:41:30 PM

I don't know. I consider Pelosi and Reid to be monkeys based on all the shit they throw at us.

No kidding!

Just think, if they'd run that same cartoon a few months ago, there would have been NO publication of complaints from anyone.

docstew · « **Reply #6 on:** February 18, 2009, 07:36:45 PM »

Quote from: thundley4 on February 18, 2009, 05:10:45 PM

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Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"

I don't think they were making a racist comment in the cartoon. I got the point that a maniacal monkey could have done the same thing that Pelosi and Reid did.

Where are the NOW ladies protesting the cartoon calling Pelosi a monkey?

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #7 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:31:12 PM »

everyone is offended. Lobbyists think its about them, NOW thinks its about Pelosi, Sharpton thinks its about Obama, PETA thinks it coulod be a real monkey, NAMBLA thinks its a little boy and and and.... um... dang forgot my big ending something about Harry Reid and prositutes

asdf2231 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:33:07 PM »

I for one am GLAD Sharpton is stepping up.

There was CLEARLY some Monkey Business going on here.

THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ! · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:11:02 PM »

Where was AP's and Sharpton's outrage when the press was showing Condi Rice as Aunt Jamima? Or Bush as Hitler? Or Cheney as ....

Well, you get the idea.

jaggoffs

rich_t · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:14:16 PM »

Hey Sharpton....

Go suck a shotgun barrel and pull the trigger.

Lord Undies · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:17:10 PM »

If this incident (and NYP cartoon) had happened last October, would we assume it was about Chimpy McCokespoon?

RightCoast · « **Reply #12 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:34:09 PM »

You know what I find really strange?

Humans go apeshit cray and do the worst imaginable stuff to each other all the time and we barely care anymore.

A chimp goes apeshit crazy and it is bigger news then the socialization of Amerika.

Freaking strange.

MrsSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:42:45 PM »

Quote from: RightCoast on February 18, 2009, 09:34:09 PM

You know what I find really strange?

Humans go apeshit cray and do the worst imaginable stuff to each other all the time and we barely care anymore.

A chimp goes apeshit crazy and it is bigger news then the socialization of Amerika.

Freaking strange.

Well, there aren't a lot of 200 lb chimps living in homes in the US...but there are millions of people. :clueless:

Eupher · « **Reply #14 on:** February 18, 2009, 10:17:14 PM »

Uh....Al?

Yeah, you. You with the expensive suit and the grease smeared in your hair. Yeah, you're the one. The guy who thinks that every white guy in the world is a racist, but you're the only one playing the race card, time after time after time after time.

Ummm....Al?

Don't you know the difference between a monkey and a chimpanzee?

Go look it up in your Funk & Wagnall's, then come back and give us a report.

We'll wait.

Ptarmigan · « **Reply #15 on:** February 18, 2009, 11:44:08 PM »

Chris · « **Reply #16 on:** February 18, 2009, 11:47:50 PM »

I wouldn't have known this cartoon was racist unless I had Al "fat ****ing gasbag hypocrite" Sharpton and the loony bin at the DUmp to tell me.

THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ! · « **Reply #17 on:** February 19, 2009, 12:06:04 AM »

10 will get you 20 that "Shakedown" Sharpton will sue the NY Post for "emotional damages" or other such preceived grievances.

Putz

AllosaursRus · « **Reply #18 on:** February 19, 2009, 03:08:09 PM »

Quote from: THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ! on February 19, 2009, 12:06:04 AM

10 will get you 20 that "Shakedown" Sharpton will sue the NY Post for "emotional damages" or other such preceived grievances.

Putz

That's the whole idea! He needed a new shakedown!

Oh by the way, Is unca Al admitting he came from chimps? I thought that was "TABOO"!

Sweet Dee · « **Reply #19 on:** February 19, 2009, 03:51:49 PM »

omg will Al Sharpton ever shut the hell up? Geez. It's just embarrassing at this point.

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