Buzzflash/Karlin: New York Post Non-Apology for Racist Cartoon Makes Monkeys of Us All

New York Post Non-Apology for Racist Cartoon Makes Monkeys of Us All

A BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

A search of Google will reveal that most of the corporate mainstream press headlined that the New York Post had "apologized" for its racist cartoon depicting President Obama as a monkey. But the New York Post did not apologize by any common meaning of the word in a subsequent editorial: it defended the cartoon and mocked all fair-minded Americans by "apologizing" if the cartoon that the Post claimed was innocuous "offended" anyone.

In short, the fault lies in our eyes and sensitivities, the Post told us, not in their barely coded bigotry. One of our regular BuzzFlash "lighter side" contributors is a cartoonist who got it right. As our "Pablo" observes in his toon entitled "Offended by Apology": "It was one of those 'If anyone was offended' apologies"; Well, "I'm offended at those who were not offended."
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BREAKING: the NY POST writes HALF-ASSED apology

It speaks for itself and their arrogance/ignorance is astounding:

THAT CARTOON

Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.

It shows two police officers standing over the chimp's body: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.

It 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.

This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.

However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

To them, no apology is due.

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

For those not getting the racist connect people feel re: New York Post cartoon. . .

. . .remember these great gems from the campaign trail: