NY Post Cartoon

I am surprised this hasn't been brought up yet.

Lets discuss.

oh boy people were going nuts about this on another forum i read......

While I don't understand what the heck they were trying to get at - I don't think it was intentionally offensive. Just a stupid, not funny, not insightful political cartoon.

It was like 'hey lets take two news stories and put them in the same cartoon - we are clever.'

...doesn't think that there's any room in New York for an openly racist newspaper like the post.

this was my friends status update this morning and now I am assuming he was referring to this cartoon

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Posted by RadiantBride

My issue is that no matter what they are insinuating it is WRONG. I dont want to get into the racial aspect of it for now, but are they saying to kill our President? or to poke fun at that poor woman who lost her eyes, nose and jaws when she was attacked by the chimp? I dont see the funny in any of the 3 possible scenarios they were trying to portray.

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i agree! no matter if they were just trying to make a joke, IMO it went TOO far

me and DH were watching the news story about it last night and my first reaction was and wow NOT cool.... i understand that people poke fun at the president and all the current politics issues, and thats fine - but to me, it was REALLY tasteless and went wayyy over the top

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Posted by RadiantBride

My issue is that no matter what they are insinuating it is WRONG. I dont want to get into the racial aspect of it for now, but are they saying to kill our President? or to poke fun at that poor woman who lost her eyes, nose and jaws when she was attacked by the chimp? I dont see the funny in any of the 3 possible scenarios they were trying to portray.

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i read a few different things about this cartoon - that the chimp isnt supposed to be portraying the president b/c he didn't write the bill or something to that effect - that its supposed to represent the house or something like that....BUT even if that is the case you are right its still poking fun of the whole chimpanzee thing that happened and i don't think that was funny at all - not for the poor woman who got hurt, not the for owner of the chimp (whether its right or wrong to own a chimp she still had a pet that went nuts, hurt her friend and now is dead - that has to be really hard to go through), and its sad for the chimp too b/c he was only an animal.....so i don't think it was in good taste no matter how you look at it.....especially when its something that could be interperted too many ways....

ps - i also think that the post is like the tabloids of newspapers.... when the whole elliot spitzer thing surfaced, the cover of the post said: 'HO NO'

sorry but i have no respect for the post and would NEVER read it

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Posted by Future Mulligan


i read a few different things about this cartoon - that the chimp isnt supposed to be portraying the president b/c he didn't write the bill or something to that effect - that its supposed to represent the house or something like that..

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that may be true... but lets face it... what do you think that MOST people thought of after reading the cartoon?!

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Posted by TommysWife08

ps - i also think that the post is like the tabloids of newspapers.... when the whole elliot spitzer thing surfaced, the cover of the post said: 'HO NO'

sorry but i have no respect for the post and would NEVER read it

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Yeah you are so right about the Tabloid of the papers. That used to be my newspaper of choice just bc I could always get the jist of the story and a ton of sarcasm.

I think that the cartoon is in bad tast! I think Tilde is right that they just put two news stories together.. But SOMEONE should have thought about what it was saying before it was printed.

It is in bad taste.

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Posted by TommysWife08

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Posted by Future Mulligan


i read a few different things about this cartoon - that the chimp isnt supposed to be portraying the president b/c he didn't write the bill or something to that effect - that its supposed to represent the house or something like that..

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that may be true... but lets face it... what do you think that MOST people thought of after reading the cartoon?!

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ohh i know what most people thought and it wasn't very nice at all....that cartoon left to much open for interpertation and not in a good way.....

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Posted by Future Mulligan

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Posted by RadiantBride

My issue is that no matter what they are insinuating it is WRONG. I dont want to get into the racial aspect of it for now, but are they saying to kill our President? or to poke fun at that poor woman who lost her eyes, nose and jaws when she was attacked by the chimp? I dont see the funny in any of the 3 possible scenarios they were trying to portray.

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i read a few different things about this cartoon - that the chimp isnt supposed to be portraying the president b/c he didn't write the bill or something to that effect - that its supposed to represent the house or something like that....BUT even if that is the case you are right its still poking fun of the whole chimpanzee thing that happened and i don't think that was funny at all - not for the poor woman who got hurt, not the for owner of the chimp (whether its right or wrong to own a chimp she still had a pet that went nuts, hurt her friend and now is dead - that has to be really hard to go through), and its sad for the chimp too b/c he was only an animal.....so i don't think it was in good taste no matter how you look at it.....especially when its something that could be interperted too many ways....

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To me the first two things that popped in my head was are they freaking nuts: Comparing a black man to a monkey and making fun of this poor woman that got attacked.
I also agree with you about feeling bad for the owner of the pet. She must also be hurting and feeling extremely guilty.

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Posted by RadiantBride
To me the first two things that popped in my head was are they freaking nuts: Comparing a black man to a monkey and making fun of this poor woman that got attacked.
I also agree with you about feeling bad for the owner of the pet. She must also be hurting and feeling extremely guilty.

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I totally agree with you!

OMG That is just wrong!

I was shocked when I saw it.... It could mean a lot of things as you ladies mentioned any way you look at its awful.

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Posted by ant n tilde

While I don't understand what the heck they were trying to get at - I don't think it was intentionally offensive. Just a stupid, not funny, not insightful political cartoon.

It was like 'hey lets take two news stories and put them in the same cartoon - we are clever.'

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you really dont know what they were trying to get at????

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Posted by Mici n KC

I think it was in poor taste. How many different ideas can we come up with what the cartoonist means?

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honestly i can only think of one

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Posted by TheFutureMrsM

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Posted by Mici n KC

I think it was in poor taste. How many different ideas can we come up with what the cartoonist means?

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honestly i can only think of one

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I can think of a few and they are all in poor taste.