NY Post: We're sorry if you were offended by the chimp cartoon.

[originalpckelly]

:rofl:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02192009/postopinion/editorials/that_cartoon_155984.htm

They're sorry right, sorry they got caught.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Was it Sean the Twerp?

He used to be so nice. Fuckin' idiot.

[malaise]

2. Pressure

They had no option. Fugg them.

[Xipe Totec]

3. And we're sorry the NY Pest is still in business. n/t

[muntrv]

4. We're sorry the NY Post is bad toilet paper.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Quoted in full...

Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.

It shows two police officers standing over the chimp's body: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.

It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.

Period.

But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.

This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.

However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

To them, no apology is due.

Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.

[varkam]

21. "We're sorry to the sensitve namby-pambys who were offended by this cartoon. To everyone else -

GO FUCK YOURSELF!"

Wow - they have no fucking clue how to apologize, do they?

[BlooInBloo]

26. They know how just fine. They're REFUSING to acknowledge their racism...

and pretending that it's everyone else's fault for being oversensitive.

[tsuki]

36. I wonder if a dingo was pictured shot by two policemen saying,

"And now who will publish the NY Post," if there might some offense taken?

[MrModerate]

6. And, Mr. Post, if your feelings were hurt by the suggestion that . . .

You're a scummy sack of offal whose customers should dump you in toto, I apologize for that.

It wasn't my intent to suggest that you eat shit and die, and I'm sorry if you saw it that way. I never meant to imply that your entire existance is an insult to all that is right and good, but if that bothered you, I really hope you can get over it.

But if you did actually intend to spew racist filth, you crap-eating pigdog, well, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

[anonymous171]

7. Typical RW apology. nt

[SharonAnn]

8. Good grief. What a "non"-apology. A real apology would go like this

Yesterday we ran an editorial cartoon in our paper which was inappropriate and we apologize. It was not meant to be a racist depiction but rather one that related to recent events. We now realize that it was seen in a different light and appeared to convey a racist message. For that we apologize.

[jimshoes]

18. That apology was written by the same type of people

that have been running (ruining) the country up until recently, neocon, rightwing, seldom correct about anything, manipulative types that are of the mindset that if you find yourselves in a hole of your own making, the obvious remedy is to continue digging only with a larger shovel. Oh, and lie about what it is you're actually doing for no apparent reason other than to stay in practice lying.

[mascarax]

30. SharonAnn, that's a well written and real apology

which just shows how they did *not* apologize. At all.

[AlCzervik]

9. Wow, the money shot----

However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

oh poor maligned piece of shit post.

[Skinner]

10. Extremely lame apology, IMO.

The overall tone does not even remotely suggest "apology."

Let's assume for the moment that the cartoon really was just an effort to "mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill." If they actually gave a shit their apology would have acknowledged that including an ape in this context was, at a minimum, insensitive and unwise, creating a huge potential for misunderstanding.

This is basically a "fuck you" dressed up as an apology.

[AlCzervik]

13. and the part about "payback", please. It was a big fuck you.

[originalpckelly]

14. Indeed it is, indeed it is.

These people aren't sorry, just sorry they got caught. This is really sickening, they're starting to whip out the seriously racist stuff. Elsewhere today, John Gibson insinuated that Eric Holder was some kind of a monkey as well.

[DevonRex]

15. Agreed. I'm going to email them protesting their "fuck you" non-apology

now, too.

It's time for us to stop accepting these types of "apologies." We're not idiots. We know an apology when we see one. And this ain't it.

[originalpckelly]

16. I have a feeling that probably goes to a spam box.

What you have to do is use high level stuff that doesn't make it sound like you hate their guts, but you really do.

[DevonRex]

22. Good idea. :)

[varkam]

23. Word.

:fistbump:

This is the worst non-apology apology that I do believe I have ever seen. Somehow it manages to not apologize and spew vitriol at the same time.

[ConcernedCanuk]

40. This is basically a "fuck you" dressed up as an apology. - you nailed it . .

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.
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And NO ONE - noone, not the cartoonist, editor, publisher, etc.,

could have any doubts about the inference of using a monkey as opposed to any other animal as the victim

This is basically a "fuck you" dressed up as an apology.


exactly . . .

[chollybocker]

11. First, remove the so-called cartoonist/propagandist from the payroll

for a good start. Then fire the editorial board. Then hire an editorial board that adheres to credible journalism. Then, you may apoligize, you twats.

[Numba6]

12. Yes, it's always those "opportunists" who cause all the trouble

Just like all them civil rights opportunists that stirred up all that trouble down south

James Chaney / Michael Schwerner /Andrew Goodman



ThankGawd the Murdoch and the New York Post are here to save us

[The Gunslinger]

17. The apology is even more offensive than the cartoon

To cry that people who are after the Post are using this as an excuse to go after them...........Come on. this is not an apology at all. It is another defense and a shot at detractors of the paper.

[varkam]

25. Agreed. eom

[Cha]

19. And, I'm sorry the NY post is full

of shit.

[jmg257]

20. Not even funny - it's not an apology, it's an embarrassing insult to intelligence.

[dbonds]

24. Thats a NON apology It puts the blame on everyone that was offended..

[Blue Diadem]

27. That was an apology? They really thought that was an apology?

:wow: I really can't type what I'm thinking because it isn't nice.

[knixphan]

28. K&R

[Urban Prairie]

29. What a coincidence, NY Post

"It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill."

And they meant to mock a ineptly written rag of a newspaper!!



:rofl:

[Matariki]

31. Saying 'sorry' about how someone else FEELS is NOT an apology.

[Mr. Sparkle]

32. What a bunch of A$$holes, they cant even get an apology right.

An interesting observation of their post is not just the mean spirited manner in which it was written in, but there call to say it was not an apology to other media who saw the "incident as an opportunity for payback". I think it just shows the mentally of the people at the paper and what an bunch of low-life's they are!

[City Lights]

33. Pathetic "apology" from a pathetic "news"paper. No surprise there.

Their toddler mentality on full display by mentioning "payback." :eyes:

Suck on it, Rupey.

[Sugar Smack]

34. Added for extra-stupid goofiness:

"However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

To them, no apology is due.

Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else."

[Wickerman]

35. Worst. Apology. Ever.

[w4rma]

37. Not sorry for printing it, just sorry "if you were offended". Racist bird cage liner. (nt)

[Fire1]

38. Translation: We meant that shit!

[Dukkha]

39. okay, I guess I missed the actual apology?

all I saw was more thinly veiled liberal bashing by the intellectually inept NYP editorial.

Go fuck yoursef Rupert and your piece of shit rag.

[WVRICK13]

41. Sorry If We Were Offended

How about sorry we are a worthless piece of shit that posts totally reprehensible front page items.

[mwb970]

42. It's a standard, typical right-wing non-apology.

I must say, the death throes of the republican party are fascinating to watch! And it couldn't happen to more deserving folks.

:popcorn: