N.Y. Post apologizes for chimpanzee cartoon

[Liberal_in_LA]

N.Y. Post apologizes for chimpanzee cartoon

Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:42am GMT


By Edith Honan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Post apologized on Thursday to those offended by an editorial cartoon that critics said was racist because it likened President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.

The newspaper acknowledged that the cartoon published on Wednesday had drawn controversy because African-Americans and others saw it as a depiction of Obama.

"This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize," the paper said in an editorial on its website headlined "That Cartoon."

"It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period," the paper

http://uk.reuters.com/article/autoNews/idUKTRE51I61D20090220

[Why Syzygy]

1. more of the 'apology'

The editorial said that "most certainly was not its intent," adding that some media and public figures who have long-standing differences with the paper saw the cartoon "as an opportunity for payback."

[47of74]

3. What I see is that a crime was committed by the cartoonist and the Post

Namely 18 U.S.C Chapter 41 Section 871.

[Why Syzygy]

18. Agreed.

Perhaps the FBI is looking into Mr. Delonas.

~snip
On the cartoon "danger scale" of 1 to 10, the chimp cartoon scored a 9, Dilbert creator Scott Adams told CNN.

Adams liked the cartoon, but judging its overall worthiness is difficult, a gauge best measured by an audience, not the cartoonist, he said.

"Any cartoon has to be a little bit dangerous, and he's definitely achieved that," he said. "You have to perceive that the cartoonist is in personal danger or there's something dangerous about it, that at the cartoonist's next cocktail party, half of the people there are going to want to poison his drink."
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/19/chimp.cartoon.react/?iref=mpstoryview

I wish I were in NY to join the protest.

[Stellabella]

2. That wasn't a real apology.

That's the kind of 'apology' abusers use. 'I'm sorry you feel that way' or 'I'm sorry you interpret it that way'.

More RW BS.

[rusty quoin]

7. Yes. That's right. We apologize with conditions. n/t

[Stellabella]

10. Real men don't need conditions. Neither do real women.

A simple 'I'm sorry, I was wrong' takes guts.

[BlooInBloo]

4. They didn't apologize.

[bkkyosemite]

5. This was a cartoon with a dead Obama! This needs to be slammed in their faces for the disgusting

thing they did period. With all the crazies out there and the threats our President has had the stupid idiots had the gall to post that sick disgusting cartoon. Sure let's just call him a monkey a dead monkey! Those Bastards!:mad:

[MadBadger]

6. I Choose "A REAL Apology is needed"

[lpbk2713]

8. It's a pathetic response to the public outrage.

More like feeble damage control than anything else. And an alleged apology
from any Murdoch organization isn't worth the bullshit it's made of anyhow.

[gristy]

9. The apology must first begin with an acknowledgment that the cartoon is offensive

This, therefore, is not an apology.

[Bluebear]

11. Other: a true apology was never offered.

Any apology that contains the word "if" is not an apology.

[TahitiNut]

14. Ditto

[IntravenousDemilo]

12. My impression was that it was referencing the thing about giving a million monkeys typewriters...

...and they'll eventually come up with Hamlet. I never saw the other thing.

But that's just me. Are some people being too touchy, or am I not being touchy enough?

[Iggo]

13. Apologies are for children. Grown-ups get fired. (n/t)

[Richard Steele]

15. That wasn't a real apology, and the racist bent of that cartoon is not a "matter of opinion".

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that cartoon
had any non-racist 'wiggle room' in it is mentaly challenged.

WE know it was a crude racist smear, THEY know it was a racist smear,
and anyone who says otherwise is either a Special Needs case
or a RACIST LIAR.

[last_texas_dem]

16. I can't see the NY Post ever giving a genuine apology for something

Do Repugs even know how to apologize and mean it?

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. Badly worded poll

I don't think you get it.

[backscatter712]

19. Unforgiven. It's not a genuine apology.

Is it an "I'm sorry I did it" apology? No, it's an "I'm sorry I got called out for it." non-apology.

The fucktards don't have an ounce of remorse.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Other: If anyone at the New York Post sincerely meant the apology; it is accepted. n/t

[bkkyosemite]

21. The wording in their apology "someone else" means they were assuming that monkey was a person,

one person. Obama! But the thing that really scares me is it shows the monkey shot dead. This is much more than a racist cartoon this is a very violent and not so subtle message...shoot him...you racist crazy. This is bull sh*t and should be looked at as a threat to the President of the United States plain and simple.

[scarletwoman]

22. Other -- that was NOT an apology. (nt)