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FEBRUARY 21, 2009 12:21PM

Chimp Controversy Alert! Obama is NOT the Prophet Mohammed

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Chimp Controversy Alert! Obama is NOT the Prophet Mohammed





POLICYWANKER EDITORIAL
   In an effort to bring sanity to a situation made ridiculous by the shenanigans of the Rev. Al Sharpton in his never-ending battle to stay in the news, Policywanker wades into the morass of the NY Post's Chimp Stimulus Cartoon Fracas with expert advice to all those incensed by the crass racial stereotyping evident in the insensitive cartoon - "Get a fucking grip!"
   First, the cartoon takes a potshot at the stimulus package - NOT the physical hotness of our studly Commander in Chief. 
   Second, President Obama is not the Prophet Mohammed who must remain unrepresented and uncharacterized in blasphemous printed image or heads must roll.
   And third, Al Sharpton is not the anointed effing Ayatollah armed with bloody scimitar and backed by unruly mobs to lop off the heads of those infidels so sinful as to besmirch the power and grace of our president with chimpish desecrations.
   GOOGLE "Bush chimp" and you will find over a million references to our previous president for chimplike appearances and behaviors. Was it racially motivated? Hell no. Was it hilarious? Hell yes.
   The real chimp, lampooned in the NY Post cartoon - the shot dead chimp - high on green tea and Xanax, is the real loser and forgotten victim in this dumbshow. Trained to be special, then treated like a retarded Victorian child and shot dead for acting like an animal. He's the one who deserves a protest march or two. Where is outrage, people? 
   Dare Policywanker repeat himself? "Get a fucking grip!"

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A frickin' men. rated.
Deborah Young
February 21, 2009 12:56 PM
Forget Al Sharpton. You can leave him out of the issue entirely. Plenty feel that the cartoon had a racial element to it. I feel that way. Sean Delonas uses bigotry in many of his cartoons. This is a trend, not an aberration. Whether you find it funny or not is a matter of personal taste. Whether someone is a bigot or not is also. But the truth, and one's record is not a matter of personal taste. Delonas makes cartoons with bigoted subject matter. That is documented history.

If you like it, great. Have the balls to claim it. Dont deny its bigotry. If you dislike Sharpton, great. Claim that. Dont attempt to smear the issue with Sharpton's character, irrespective of his view. MILLIONS of people other than Sharpton were offended. Myself included.
Bill Beck
February 21, 2009 01:15 PM
Bill: You write the blog, then I'll read it! You have the real gift for these subjects.
zumalicious
February 21, 2009 03:25 PM
Thing is blacks & mixed-race people have a sensitivety to being compared to monkeys...goes way back to slavery days. Bush did resemble a chimpanzee , but had far less intelligence and was white.
The cartoon was in poor taste and was obviously insinuating the monkey was our president. But hey it's a free country.
polliyanna
March 08, 2009 08:09 PM