Comments on: Sharpton Protests Cartoon Linking Dead Chimp to Obama

By: isha kshaira

isha kshaira — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:41:58 +0000

whoever thinks the chimp in the cartoon is obama is a racist!!! you decided that the chimp actually looked like obama!!! READ the cartoon and you’ll see it doesn’t refer to obama at all.

By: TownShrier

TownShrier — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:53:02 +0000

Not sure if YN gave this its title, but it is incorrect to say the cartoon links Obama to the chimp or vice versa. The reference is to the people who wrote the legislation, which means it links Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to the chimp. Poor chimp.

By: Yatzmich

Yatzmich — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:56:30 +0000

Cartoon is in poor taste.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:09:51 +0000

#2
If indeed “no one read it”, then you haven’t either. Somehow, though, you are still able to sagaciously declare it as ‘lousy’. Interesting…

By: Avram in MD

Avram in MD — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:24:20 +0000

I think DeliberatelyEsoteric is right. The cartoon’s humor is subtle, too subtle for Mr. Sharpton I suppose. I think he was reading into the cartoon, looking for an issue to leap on that wasn’t even there. The cartoonist is criticizing the stimulus bill by implying that it was written by a deranged chimpanzee. There is no reference whatsoever to Obama in the cartoon, who didn’t write the bill, only signed it.

Think of the theory of a million monkeys on a million typewriters eventually pounding out the 1000+ page stimulus bill. That may be part of the cartoonist’s inspiration.

I do think that the cartoon was tasteless, but not for some imagined reason that Mr. Sharpton inserted. I think the cartoon was very insensitive to the woman who was seriously mauled by the chimpanzee in Stamford, CT, and her family and friends. The vicious attack is certainly not a laughing matter.

By: Flatbush Bubby

Flatbush Bubby — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:43:59 +0000

akuperma, Obama signed on to the legislation. He wants it.

I plan to go out to buy a New York Post today!

By: DeliberatelyEsoteric

DeliberatelyEsoteric — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:43:28 +0000

to me, it seems that the chimp in the cartoon is NOT representative of obama. it looks like the cartoonist is only poking fun at the bill itself by saying it must have been written by a monkey…

who knows

By: Mayan_Dvash

Mayan_Dvash — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:31:09 +0000

Anyone who knows the basics about the stimulus aka prokulus package, knows that it was put together by opportunity seeking liberals, yes liberals (they didn’t even allow republicans in the process while they were writing it). Hence, in my interpretation, the monkey is any member of congress, perhaps one of the leaders Pelosi or Reid. If you notice, the quote says “write” not “sign” ;

By: tzippi

tzippi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:19:45 +0000

I don’t get the joke. Got to agree with 6 (Yiddeshe Tuchter).

By: Yiddeshe Tuchter

Yiddeshe Tuchter — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:05:19 +0000

I am not an Obama supporter, but that looks like it went over the line to me.