And sometimes editorial scum are just editorial scum.

just ask the monkey.

You have a BLACK President. So sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and tow the goddamn line. That is all.

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Saw this on politico this morning. Another "We're sorry you're so sensitive" non-apology. And a "f**k you!" to people who already took exception to the Post. But .... is it better than nothing?

The damn chimp story was in all the news media for days! The cartoonist played off that. His cartoon wasn't a caricature of Obama, it was the freaking chimpanzee in Connecticut...you know, the one that was shot down?

Krikey, there aren't enough problems, the morons have to go manufacturing more?

So having a Black President justifies comparing him to A DEAD CHIMPANZEE SHOT BY COPS. I have to admit that I originally thought the Post was sarcastic. After reading the apology I know they are a bunch of racist cowards who hide behind the 1st amendment.

We will only live in a Post-racism society when white people are no longer the political, economic and cultural elite. Obama is one step forward, not the end.

Oh, that's the sort of apology that wife beaters and adulterers would love.

1. If you were offended, but you like us otherwise, we're sorry.

2. If you were offended and decided that we're nasty, then we're not sorry.

It amounts to saying that they are only apologizing to the people who agree with them entirely and were bothered by the bother. It's an even better non-apology apology than "I'm sorry you're angry," because they're not. They're only sorry if you're sad.

I've got a lot of issues with the stimulus (particularly the tax cuts). And I'm not a big fan of Al Sharpton.

But that cartoon was horrible. When I was a kid, the number two slang for black people was "Porch Monkey." In my high school, a copy of the "Porch Monkey Hunting Regulations" made the rounds. This wasn't the Deep South. It was in the Greater New Haven area, in the shadow of Yale University.

That 'toon also seems to imply that Obama should be shot. I hope the secret service paid Rupert Murder, uh, Murdoch, a visit.

Let's be honest, if any newspaper published a cartoon even implying that George Bush should be shot, the whole upper management of that paper would be in Gitmo right now!

And to Sleeping Dogs, the expression is "toe the line."

This has become the standard mode of "apology" for those that say/write things that they should be aware are highly insulting: "We're sorry if you were dumb enough/hypersensitive enough to take our innocent comment the wrong way."

Nowhere is there a sense of accountability for the action to begin with. This is particularly troubling in the case of an editorial cartoon, which takes time to conceive and produce, and then must be vetted several times by editorial staff before ever reaching print. An awkward or flippant off the cuff remark is one thing; a highly premeditated message is something else.

I do not suggest that the cartoonist or the editors intended to be racist. I can't speak to their motivation or state of mind. But anyone with a modicum of cultural intelligence knows about the simian/African American meme that's run an ugly course through American history. Either the cartoonist and editors knew about this and decided to ignore it, or they are stupendously inept and unaware of the culture of which they are a part.

In either case, a sincere apology would say something along the lines of, "While we never intended the cartoon to imply a racist message, we certainly should have been aware of the connotations the image would carry, and we take responsibility for our failure to do so. For this, we sincerely apologize."

Instead, we get the standard, "We're sorry about the mistake *you* made in interpreting the cartoon, not our negligence and ignorance in creating a message that was obviously going to be incredibly hurtful. Oh, and Al Sharpton is a jerk."

I thought being accountable for one's actions and mistakes was a quality that conservatives justly celebrated. But it seems that, in the case of the Post at least, this is only true for other people.

get over it.

Nobody!

We have always told our children that a sorry means nothing without a change in behavior. My question is, what is the newsroom doing to become more inclusive? It seems likely that if there had been a black person on the editorial board (or whatever panel approved the cartoon), or even a person who was friends with black people or who knew anything about the history of racism, they would have been able to call attention to how tone deaf the cartoon was. The Post's lame apology indicates that they resent that they should have to think about any world other than their own.

No, it was a really poorly constructed cartoon that conflated 2 events (the chimp attack and the stimulus bill), and smooshed them together in a way that did not make any sense.

The stimulus bill passed, but it is being associated with a dead chimp.

Maybe they should apologize to the woman who had her face ripped off by the chimp AND the woman who lost her 20-year companion. Granted, the former is apparently blind so at least she doesn't have to see it. And the latter is getting death threats so she has other things to worry about as well.

FU. Lame-ass apology not accepted. A dead chimp and the stimulus package, what was the connection, if not racial? The half-ass apology rings hollow. I will not purchase their product. I urge anyone else dissatisfied to boycott the NY Post. They just don't get it.

The elephant in the room is the chimp. Why did the cartoonist focus on the chimp as symbolic of the so called out of control stimulus bill? Why not use another tragedy--like the ice laden Colgan Air crash in Buffalo? That seems apt. Or Chris Brown loosing control and giving Rihianna a beat down? Or the man committing suicide in the Crystal Cathedral? All of these could have been put to good use. What is it about a crazed monkey-man ripping off an innocent woman's face that appealed to him?