Was the chimp cartoon Sean Delonas drew for the New York Post a racist provocation? Absurd.
Delonas' depiction of the bullet-riddled primate - an obvious reference to the berserk chimp recently gunned down in Connecticut - as author of the congressional stimulus package reflects, however clumsily, a common view among conservatives: that the monster spending bill was so stupid that even a monkey could have written it.
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The monkey cartoon wasn't racial? Why did the big dick himself, Rupert Murdock, apologize? With the people of this country trying to put racism a thing of the past, people like you keep stirring the pot for your own agenda.
It's journalism. Anybody can keep a journal. A stupid person will keep a stupid journal. The problem these days is there are pleny of publications that are willing ot publish stupid journal entries. The fundamental assumption of the article is that the cartoon is racist. It isn't necessarily racist. It does condone and even encourage assassination. The cartoon is drenched in violence of various kinds, violence against animals, police brutality (one shot would have killed the chimp), and hatred of political enemies. The telling point is that the cops knew the chimp wrote the stimulus bill, but they shot him anyway (it couldn't be helped). The raw ugliness of the chimp, the weird symmetry and precision of the bullet ... More »
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