A Chimp & A Bill on Capitol Hill

[wwcitizen]

Today, I joined a group on Facebook to boycott the NY Post. It's sort of lackluster and pointless for me to do that because I seriously do not read that newspaper. It's quite pedestrian in my opinion and for my tastes. However, it is interesting to have heard about the cartoon that's caused such a national uproar.

The is Huffington Post's position.

The NY Post's apology.

From the NY Post's perspective, I can see where they're coming from:

"[The cartoon] was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period. But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama - as a thinly veiled expression of racism," which "most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize."

"Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else."

However, given the artist's history of hate-driven material and cartoons, I can see where opportunists in this regard would strike. I don't blame them; I can't stand his topics and artwork, either!

The NY Post continued saying, "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."

All too often, however, (in many people's opinion and I firmly believe that) as the NY Post states, "Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist."