Comments on: Pundits go ape over NY Post cartoon

By: Kermit

Kermit — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Precious

By: steve martin

steve martin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The cartoon was probably meant as the New Republic says, but it should have been obvious to the cartoonist that it would be taken the wrong way. Particularly by those who are always looking for something to take offense at.
I would have thought it was a reference, though a little obscure, to the saying that a monkey with a typewriter given time could by chance type the works of Shakespeare. i.e. a shot at the stimulus package.
Of course I may be wrong, and it is just a piece of racism,but I doubt it.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Boy are we Americans sick of Al Sharpton and all the race baiting, (This has made him rich by the way)
It's all about getting people all shook up so he can get donations and ride around in limos all day.
How sad that blacks were once slaves, but this is 2009. Blacks have more opportunities than whites do now in many instances, all they have to do is take advantage of free education, preferential treatment for government jobs, preferencial treatment for minorities in business, etc.
This cartoon is very thought provoking, it's deeper than it looks, it has nothing to do with race.
However, everyone seems to be missing the point here.
THIS IS AMERICA! WE DON'T WANT SOCIALISM HERE. THAT'S WHY WE DON'T LIKE THE "STIMULUS"
we also have something called freedom of the press, and freedom of speach.
America is sick of the whining cry babies that have nothing better to do than complain.
If they don't like the cartoon they need to read a different paper.
Our very liberty is threatened by these whining bleeding hearts.

By: Dave Liberts

Dave Liberts — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Kermit is right, the key word here is precious. Just as the Republican morons who wanted to claim that Obama’s reference to lipstick on a pig was a dig at Sarah Palin were being far too precious, anyone who wants to automatically presume that a piss-poor cartoon which has something black in it must be about Obama is guilty of similar stupidity here.