New York Post Cecting Chimp Attack With Obama? artoon: Conn

new york post cartoon chimp Controversy is brewing over a New York Post cartoon that some believe ties this week’s chimp attack to President Barack Obama in a racially offensive fashion.
New York Post Cartoon Controversy

The cartoon, created by Sean Delonas and printed in Wednesday’s New York Post, shows police shooting a chimp dead, then saying: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

New York Post Cartoon - Sean Delonas
Chimp Attack Connection

The image is presumably related to an incident in Stamford, Connecticut on Monday in which a chimpanzee escaped a woman’s home and attacked her friend. Officers ended up shooting and killing the animal.

The caption in Delonas’ New York Post cartoon is being interpreted by some as a reference to Obama, since — while he didn’t actually author it — he was the driving force behind the recently passed stimulus bill. The Rev. Al Sharpton tells the Associated Press the image is “troubling at best, given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.” Sharpton also called upon the Post to clarify its intentions with the drawing.
NY Post Chimp Cartoon Response

The New York Post countered Sharpton’s statement and declared it was standing behind the cartoon. The publication’s editor-in-chief issued the following response:

“The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”

Cartoonist Sean Delonas went on to call Sharpton’s accusations “absolutely friggin’ ridiculous” during a phone interview with CNN Wednesday afternoon.

“Do you really think I’m saying Obama should be shot? I didn’t see that in the cartoon,” he said. “It’s about the economic stimulus bill. If you’re going to make that about anybody, it would be [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, which it’s not.”


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new york post cartoon Offensive New York Post 'Shoot The Monkey' Cartoon

new york post cartoon Political cartoonists inhabit sacred space in a free democracy. They must be free to express themselves without a filter or none of us will be. But that carte blanche does not trump my rights as a reader to voice my opinion on the perspective that's presented.

I felt the now infamous New Yorker cover was misguided, and I think Sean Delonas's cartoon in Wednesday's edition of the New York Post fails to do anything more than make light of a tragic incident, ignore the history of the NYPD's involvement in controversial shootings and perhaps label President Barack Obama a crazy monkey. ...

Sure, I see the racial implications of the cartoon. But mostly I am still haunted by the killing-murder of Amadou Diallo in 1999 and other shootings linked to the NYPD. I think Delonas's cartoon is offensive and ineffective all around.

Of course, according to TMZ, Al Sharpton fired off a statement:

"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less-than-casual reference to this when, in the cartoon, they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that, "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."

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