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1. Blackwater:

Throw a banana at Bush and you’ll be heralded as a genius. Do the same thing to Obama and you’ll probably be charged with a hate crime.

Feb 26, 2009 - 2:06 am 2. RightwingHippyChick:

Ook?

Feb 26, 2009 - 2:13 am 3. Amos (Zionist Minion):

What was the name Bush was called by his detractors? Chimpy, wasn’t it?

Feb 26, 2009 - 2:51 am 4. LeighB:

I am really confused by the reaction to the chimp cartoon. I never realized that a chimp automatically equated with african american. So, when George Bush was depicted this way, were people really saying he was America’s 2nd black president? The hysteria is really hard to follow…

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:33 am 5. Tony R:

This is, of course, the ultimate example of the latent hypocricy of the left. It’s perfectly ok to call President Bush a chimp but woe betide anyone who dare call President Obama a chimp.

The left are too blinkered to see this for themselves but those folk in the centre who voted for Obama because they bought into the hopeychangey nonsense will get tired of this double-standard pretty quickly.

RightwingHippyChick

There’s no need to drag the poor Librarian into the debate!!

Feb 26, 2009 - 4:49 am 6. Mindhacker:

It is interesting that no one seems to mind that Jews are constantly being referred to as apes by those of Islamic culture, but nothing is said about that. Yet, we have a cartoon speaking of a the writers of the stimulus bill, everyone thinks they are talking about Obama. He didn’t write the bill. I would never compare a chimp to Obama. As far as I know, chimps and apes don’t lie.

Feb 26, 2009 - 4:55 am 7. Canuck:

You’re making this up, right? An Onion-like attempt at some morning chuckles? They’re not really recalling an eight year old DVD? They’ve all lost their minds. Not that I care, it was a crappy remake, anyway.

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:17 am 8. Peter the Bubblehead:

I said it in a previous thread, and I’ll say it again here…

If the first thing that comes to mind when you see a chimp in a cartoon is black people (or specifically Obama), the problem is in YOUR head, not mine!

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:30 am 9. e:

What’s up with people apologizing when they haven’t done anything wrong. Heck, people aren’t even supposed to apologize for mistakes. An honest screw up is a screw up and doesn’t even need an apology. Tim Burton didn’t even make a mistake.

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:37 am 10. acj:

Bush was called Chimp Boy. The problem with your scenario, is that our history has been cruel to African Americans, and not white Anglo’s. It is better to knock one off of a high pedestal, rather than push someone in the dirt before they can stand tall.
I have always believed in equal rights, yet balked at affirmative action (whoever is qualified) but must admit that there still exists hate, contrary views about race and social status- primarily in the south.
The disadvantaged can never seek opportunity, let alone be simulated into society with a monkey on their back.
It probably does take some sensitivity to meet the definitions head on, but when you have obvious cartoons and connections to connotations still flying around, expect all things to be misrepresented!

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:49 am 11. Carolb:

Don’t Sharpton and the other race baiters realize that, by drawing attention to things like this, it just reinforces the stereotype. Thanks to Sharpton, from now on, whenever I see a picture of a chimp or hear a story about Travis the chimp…I will now think of Barack Obama.

As for the Washington Post cartoon, what the heck? I guess they were worried that people like Sharpton would somehow be convinced that the ape was Obama and the woman he was carrying was Michelle. I mean, it’s obvious from the cartoon, right? Cuz, that dress is the same color as the one Michelle wore on inauguration day. I’m just sayin…

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:53 am 12. Teacher in Texas:

That is too funny. I actually believed the Tim Burton opening for a few seconds. That is how insane this kind of BS has become in this country.

I bet that text is already speeding its way through cyber space in outraged emails by people who stopped reading at that point.

Hee Hee

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:56 am 13. Laura:

#6 excellent point.

Farrakhan even said that white males were descended from apes because some have hair on their chests!

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:04 am 14. Cybergeezer:

I thing the attacking chimpanzee is re-enacting the violence he saw on a video, TV, or a video game. The media’s at fault for broadcasting this VIOLENCE. And I’m sure the chimp was a deranged Democrat.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:17 am 15. Mike:

Canuck – Yes I’m making it up! Read the whole thing! But I guess your comment means the satire was effective.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:23 am 16. Alex:

“unless the star is a giant polar bear battling global warming”

That was too funny.

I cannot believe Tim Burton felt the need to apologize for the ending of his movie, other than not making sense and then no sequel to explain it. if anything he should apologize for wasting a couple hours of movie viewers time.

It is very strange reaction the nation is having to President Obama, something people with lots of degree’s will probably extrapolate into need for national mental health coverage.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:24 am 17. Scott:

Hold on a minute,…I thought we all came from apes, shortly after we were a mud puddle struck by lightning.
No one seems to see how offensive it is for the monkeys to be compared to Obama.
Clearly monkeys have more class.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:39 am 18. Paul from Hamburg:

#6 Good point.

It all makes sense now. The whole “Hussein the Muslim” thing was just a smokescreen (can I say “smokescreen”?). Obama is really Jewish and the entire election was a neoconservative, Zionist plot to continue their hegemony over American foreign policy. Think it over. Everyone is pointing out that the Obama foreign policy team isn’t that different from Bush’s. Al Sharpton is obviously part of the conspiracy.

I am sure before this is over, we’ll find out that Rod Carew is involved.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:41 am 19. Ms.Attitude:

10. acj: “…..but must admit that there still exists hate, contrary views about race and social status- primarily in the south.”

acj, You don’t know what you are talking about! I’ve lived out west, the midwest and the south. The south is more integrated than the midwest. While in the midwest there were 0 blacks in our entire school system, the restaurants had 0 blacks as did the parks…Friends of mine that live up east say they are self segregated. They are shocked when they come to the south!

But what you say may come back! check out the video from the Waffle House in a middle Georgia town.

http://www.13wmaz.com/article/20090224/NEWS01/90224010

This place is frequented by all races, but you can see why the whites stop going once the blacks take over!

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:45 am 20. Mongoose:

ACJ: “History” has been no more cruel to AA’s than any other race. In fact, in the last 60 years no race has been more accommodated and pampered than the black race. Your assertion is both incorrect and invalid, and given that we have a AA president and AG it is patently absurd as well

This is merely an attampt to silence poltical opositon of any sort

Obviously, this was a reference to the chimpanzee attack in New York, not to black people, but even if it were, so what? Political opponents of the Left are often characterized in the vilest manner. Look how GWB, Southern Whites or Catholics are characterized in the Neo-communist media. And here too, so what? That is what a free press is about.

Here we are veering into the sort of censorship we see in totalitarian societies where criticizing the “Dear Leader” can lead to severe punishment. This is fascist nonsense and has no place in America.

This incident show how immature and neurotic the AA community truely is. How did they get that way? Well by the race pimping of the democrat party, that is how. It is the democratic party and the AA community that is race obsessed, it is they who are racists.

It is they who are “cowardly”. They are afraid of a cartoon.

This incident also shows the deep-rooted totalitarian leanings of the Left, not to mention their thoroughgoing hypocrisy and lack of good faith.

Before this is administration is done, race relationships will be set back 50 years.

There is no constitutional right to not be offended.

It will take a generation to unwind the damage of the Obama presidency, if it can ever be unwound at all. The Neo-Communists of the Democrat party only know how to destroy, they cannot create.

These people are disastrous to the Republic. I pray it survives them. Whatever happens, it will be wounded and damaged.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:52 am 21. SSG Jeff (USAR):

Good grief. I think you need to put the “This Is SATIRE” notice in bold, blinking print….

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:54 am 22. Mike:

Alex @ 16

One more time: The Burton story IS MADE UP!!!

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:58 am 23. albert:

An interesting biological note: chimps have white-ish skin

Feb 26, 2009 - 7:15 am 24. HT:

10.acj

“I … must admit that there still exists hate, contrary views about race and social status- primarily in the south.”

The most racist remark I ever heard was from a Police Sargent in Boston in 1984.

Feb 26, 2009 - 7:27 am 25. Paul -Indiana:

From #18; Paul, be careful, the anti-smoking nuts will be out for your hide for even hinting at the benefits of a smokescreen.

Feb 26, 2009 - 7:33 am 26. Jillian:

This is not at all funny.That ape owed no back taxes was going to be Obama’s next Commerce Secretary

Feb 26, 2009 - 7:37 am 27. robotech master:

I think its funny that drawing ppl as apes was a tradition insult against the irish and irish catholic…. However it was also an insult against 2 other prime groups 1. being jews as said above but also 2. Their were many many cartoons depicting the Nazis as apes. I think the out rage comes because the left still remembers all those pictures from WW2 and they are still very offended by them.

Feb 26, 2009 - 8:35 am 28. Pat J:

The cartoon in Murdoch’s New York Post was neither politically correct or politically incorrect. Invective satire, maybe. But is was certainly racist and disgustng because of its dehumanizing image toward black people. It’s astounding a lot of people can’t see that. Again. Below is an article that pretty much sums up this cartoon of two white officers shoot a chimpanzee:

By: Phillip Atiba Goff

Though much of the reaction to the cartoon has been outrage at the implication that our 44th president is remotely simian, there have been other messages in the blogosphere as well. A few pleaded with us to see reason in this post-Obama era. They begged us to understand that the cartoonist clearly meant to impugn congress, Wall Street executives and academic economists and that there was no racial subtext to the piece. Others saw the cartoon as racist but declined to become outraged. Saw the injustice in the image, but saw it as a minor injustice, not one worth worrying too much about. After all, having a black president means that America is post-racial and does not need to worry about petty things like harmless pictures in a paper.

The messages in my inbox mirrored the commentaries I saw online. A few (though not many) defending the cartoon. Many more exasperated with indifference. All of them insisted this was a little thing.

The best science available suggests otherwise.

For the better part of the past seven years, my colleagues and I have conducted research on the psychological phenomenon of dehumanization. Specifically, we have examined cognitive associations between African Americans and non-human apes. And the association leads to bad things. When we began the research, we were skeptical of whether or not participants even knew that people of African descent were caricatured as ape-like — as less than human — throughout the better part of the past 400 years. And, in fact, many were not. However, even those who were unaware of this historical association demonstrated a cognitive association between blacks and apes. That is, when they thought of apes, they thought of blacks and vice versa — when they thought of blacks, they thought of apes.

But the fact of this cognitive association was not the most disturbing part of the research. Rather, it was the fact that the association between blacks and apes could lead to violence.

In one study, participants who were made to think about apes were more likely to support police violence against black (but not white) criminal suspects. The association actually caused them to endorse anti-black violence. Most disturbing of all, however, was a study of media coverage and the death penalty. Looking at a sample of death-eligible cases in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1999, the more that media coverage used ape-like metaphors to describe a murder trial (i.e. “urban jungle,” “aping the suspects behavior,” etc.) the more likely black suspects, but not white suspects were to be put to death.

Not surprisingly, black suspects were much more likely to be described in ape-like terms. And they were more frequently executed by the state.

Feb 26, 2009 - 8:38 am 29. against the stupid:

remember bush deserved it badly, not bananas maybe doodoo

Feb 26, 2009 - 8:48 am 30. Self-hating Boomer:

I am really confused by the reaction to the chimp cartoon. I never realized that a chimp automatically equated with African American.

You must not be a liberal.

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:00 am 31. robotech master:

To 28. Pat J:

Your article is complete BS… you every heard of this thing we teach called evolution…

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:03 am 32. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer:

They’re going to have to peel my various versions of Donkey Kong from my cold, dead fingers.

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:05 am 33. sule:

Pat J.

Too bad Philadelphia police haven’t nabbed that black caught on camera with his white murder victim’s Blackberry.

Oh, right. The black is the victim here.

Dang, I need to stop forgetting that…

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:21 am 34. Barry 0351:

Ya’ll ain’t seen nothin’ yet wait till these folks start on the Racoons!

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:37 am 35. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer:

Uh oh. So is it a hate crime now to give a sugar cube to a raccoon?

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:45 am 36. compozor:

How about using only albino apes from now on? That should solve the problem!

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:00 am 37. NCBob:

Chimpy The Kenyan is already building reeducation camps where the non-Hollywood, non-union officer, non-plaintiff attorney, non-related to Congressmen wealthy who grumble about being stripped of their wealth will be sent. Charlie Rangel, Al Sharpton and Jerry Wright will be in charge of racial equality.

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:04 am 38. Charles Perry:

BTW, should remember that the Rev. Bacon character in “Bonfire of the Vanities” was not “inspired” by Al Sharpton, because the Tawana Brawley hoax took place after the book was published. Rev. Bacon is actually a testimony to how deeply Tom Wolfe understands our culture — he foresaw a Sharpton.
Pat J.’s research is based on the idea that if people have an association in the back of their minds, it reveals their real nature and will determine their actions. This is one of those schematic Freudian ideas that are still floating around despite the discrediting of Freud and his “talking cure.”
It’s like saying that if you lie down and woolgather, this is your default position and you’ll never get up if you have a practical task to accomplish. Some people do never get out of bed, but the overwhelming majority do, and the random associations in their minds fade away in the business of activity.

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:05 am 39. Peter the Bubblehead:

To Pat J at #28:

Once again… The NY Post cartoon HAD NOTHING to do with RACE, BLACK PEOPLE or OBAMA! Get it through your skull!

All you are doing is perpetuating a fabrication and enraging people over nothing.

The cartoon was a commentary on the stupidity of the so-called stimulus bill, in actuality a Porkulus bill, and how it could have been written by a rabid chimpanzee and made more sense the the version CONGRESS (not Obama, who only signs laws, but Congress, who WRITES laws) wrote!

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:05 am 40. Pat J:

31. robotech master:

To 28. Pat J:
Your article is complete BS… you every heard of this thing we teach called evolution…
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Yes I have. Still wait for you to evolve.

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:08 am 41. deguello:

NOTE TO CARTOONISTS:An Ape does not fit the Obama personality type;a weasel would be a far better Obama lampoon animal for .

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:20 am 42. deguello:

PAT J(jughead) If you can’t handle freedom of speech’I suggest you go live in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe!

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:25 am 43. deguello:

Comparing Obama to an ape is an insult to the ape besides,it’s poor cartooning; Obama is more of a weasel than an ape.

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:27 am 44. Mike:

Charles @ 38:

If you read the introduction to later editions of BOTV you’ll find that Wolfe talks about Sharpton being partly the inspiration for Bacon – he was notorious in New York before the Brawley case. See also here: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313039,00.html

I think there’s supposed to be a bit of Jesse Jackson in there too.

Wolfe must be enjoying Al’s latest performance – I hope he writes about it.

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:29 am 45. Dr. Mark:

Tim Burton is nothing but a Hollywierd flake. The movie was not that good anyway and NO RATIONAL PERSON would made an irrational leap of illogic to think there ever were racial undertones to the film. Is there were, then the entire film should be re-made and let’s make it “Planet of the Reptiles”..now that is a much closer reference to those snakes running Washington now!!!

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:34 am 46. Delia:

Mike, I’m having a good guffaw over how many people didn’t read your article through enough to see you were being facetious with regards to the “Planet of the Apes/Tim Burton” parody.

31. robotech master, good point. I guess evolution is only about blacks? White people came from alien space-crafts I guess. Better take that out of the school curriculum or it will be deemed raaaaaaaaaaaaaacist.

Well, I’m craving a banana! ←Full of potassium and good for leveling your blood-sugar.

YUM!

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:53 am 47. LynnS:

“accompanied a column about a study which found that women were apparently turned on by images of apes mating.”

Are you kidding? Did you put that in as a test to see if we read the whole article?

In the words of Mae West….

Come on over here ya big ape.

And the most popular Halloween costume for men is 2009 will be …..

Feb 26, 2009 - 10:59 am 48. Osama-tang:

Those Danish cartoonists should never have drawn all those pictures of monkeys! It makes my people go bananas!

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:08 am 49. seven:

One of the more interesting incidences in the history of evolution and racism is the story of the man who was put on display in a zoo (Brix, 1992). Brought from the Belgian Congo in 1904 by noted African explorer Samuel Verner, he was soon “presented by Verner to the Bronx Zoo director, William Hornaday” (Sifakis, 1984, p. 253). The man, a pygmy named Ota Benga (or “Bi” which means “friend” in Benga’s language), was born in 1881 in Africa. When put in the zoo, he was about 23 years old, four feet-eleven inches tall, and weighed a mere 103 pounds. Often referred to as a boy, he was actually a twice married father-his first wife murdered by the white colonists, and his second spouse died from a poisonous snake bite (Bridges, 1974).

He was first displayed in the anthropology wing at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair with other pygmies as “emblematic savages” along with other “strange people” The exhibit was under the direction of W J. McGee of the Anthropology Department of the St. Louis World’s Fair. McGee’s ambitions for the exhibit were to “be exhaustively scientific in his demonstration of the stages of human evolution. Therefore he required ‘darkest Blacks’ to set off against ‘dominant whites’ and members of the ‘lowest known culture’ to contrast with ‘its highest culmination’” (Bradford and Blume, 1992, pp. 94-95). The exhibit was also extremely popular and “attracted considerable attention” (Verner, 1906a, p. 471). The pygmies were selected because they had attracted much attention as an example of a primitive race. One Scientific American article said:
http://www.rae.org/otabenga.html
This mess was started by Darwinism. Ota benga

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:11 am 50. Pat J:

Hmm. I get the feeling everyone who has posted snarky remarks regarding Dr. Goff’s study is a white male and believes everything Michele Malkin writes as enlightening. Furthermore, anyone who doesn’t realize the cartoon ties the chimp to Obama’s stimulus package is an utter idiot.

Oh and by the way:

Phillip Atiba Goff is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the executive director of research for the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity. A graduate of Harvard and Stanford universities, Goff’s research focuses on the intersection of identity and social justice.

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:17 am 51. Pat J:

39. Peter the Bubblehead:
To Pat J at #28:

Once again… The NY Post cartoon HAD NOTHING to do with RACE, BLACK PEOPLE or OBAMA! Get it through your skull!
All you are doing is perpetuating a fabrication and enraging people over nothing.
The cartoon was a commentary on the stupidity of the so-called stimulus bill, in actuality a Porkulus bill, and how it could have been written by a rabid chimpanzee and made more sense the the version CONGRESS (not Obama, who only signs laws, but Congress, who WRITES laws) wrote!
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Oh. So it was about Nancy Pelosi then? Then it would be regarded sexist? And while your at it, name one item in the Stimulus bill that constitutes “pork.”

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:20 am 52. typos_R_us:

“The problem with your scenario, is that our history has been cruel to African Americans, and not white Anglo’s.”

Factually inaccurate in several respects.
First the “our history”. Just who is OUR? Mot mine, for sure.
History shows that there were as many White Anglo Slaves as black ones. If you took the time to study the subject, for the first few hundred thousand years of Human history, MOST of humanity were slaves. Slavery goes back as far as the archeologists can determine.
Then there is the myth of slavery being cruel. It was with some slave owners, but NOT most. I can make the argument that most American slaves of the 18th and 19th century were treated better then a ghetto denizen is today. Slaves were seen as livestock. A wise farmer treats his livestock well. Get more work out of them. The owners that abused their slaves didn’t stay in business long.
Then there is defining just what slavery is. My ancestors came to America as indentured servants, which is a form of slavery. He was a 10 year old boy who’s father sold him to The 6th Baron Baltimore to avoid debtors prison. He was shipped to America where he learned to read and write, became a head clerk for one of the Calverts. After his 20 years were up, grabbed his 14 year old bride and took a land grant in Carolina.
Is an indentured servant a slave? The indenture was normally for 20 years, which doesn’t sound long today but was half a lifetime in the 18th century. BTW, slaves were not kept forever until the mid 18th century. Before that, they were manumitted after 30 years, IIRC. So the real difference between an indentured servant and a slave was the length of their term.
Direct slavery in America was replaced with wage slavery. That is what the War of Secession (AKA Civil War) was about.
The Industrial north had no interest in actually freeing anyone. They needed workers for their factories and the closest major supply was the cotton pickers in the south. So the former slaves ended up “free”. “Free” to work for a wage that left them slowly staving and deeper in debt everyday. Being free, they had a choice, starve slow or starve fast. Does that sound like freedom to you?
If the Yankee industrialists had wanted to free the slaves, they could have bought them for about 10% of what the War cost. Those slaves represented about 75% of the capital of the South.
Did you know that during the war, the South had more “slaves” under arms then the North? When Sherman marched thru Georgia, it was black slaves that fought him.
A Prime slave would cost about 2 years wages of a skilled worker. It took hundreds to work a small plantation, over a thousand to work a major plantation.
Do some research, get past the propaganda of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Here is a starting point;
http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/slavery_resources.html
This is a field that I expect to see boom over the next few decades. AS more research is done, the theories will change. That is good, but not as good as having the prewar propaganda debunked.

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:34 am 53. Moogie:

It’s funny how absolutely NO ONE is telling us what the cartoonist’s intent was.

I think the cartoonist should have put a dress on the monkey so there would be no doubt about who it was representing: Nancy Pelosi.

And another thing: where do we draw the line between “free” speech and “hate” speech, and who is the judge of what this means? If I say “I hate Obama,” then I’d call that hate speech. If I say “Obama is dumber than a monkey,” I’d call that free speech.

However, if I say “Nancy Pelosi is dumber than a one celled amoeba,” that would probably be called hateful free speech.

I hope it’s not racist for me to day all Obama supporters are lemmings.

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:45 am 54. Moogie:

oops, dumb typos:
“day” should read “say”

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:47 am 55. Steve:

I thought the cartoon lambasted Nancy Pelosi. She certainly had more input in writing the bill than did BHO.

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:55 am 56. Mongoose:

Pat J: I think everyone here gets the feeling that you have not the slightest idea of what you are talking about.

Feb 26, 2009 - 11:57 am 57. seven:

By: Phillip Atiba Goff

For the better part of the past seven years, my colleagues and I have conducted research on the psychological phenomenon of dehumanization. Specifically, we have examined cognitive associations between African Americans and non-human apes. And the association leads to bad things. When we began the research, we were skeptical of whether or not participants even knew that people of African descent were caricatured as ape-like — as less than human — throughout the better part of the past 400 years. And, in fact, many were not. However, even those who were unaware of this historical association demonstrated a cognitive association between blacks and apes. That is, when they thought of apes, they thought of blacks and vice versa — when they thought of blacks, they thought of apes.

But the fact of this cognitive association was not the most disturbing part of the research. Rather, it was the fact that the association between blacks and apes could lead

Another pseudo intelect trying to deny the impact of Darwinism in dehumanizing mankind.

He is such an idiot. We all know biology class insist we are all in the family of apes.

Darwin denier.

As a Psychologist myself, It reminds me that My college dean says the difference between the patients and the staff boils down to who has keys to the doors.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:03 pm 58. URA...:

You are a racist bigot.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:04 pm 59. LynnS:

The study found that when confronted by the fact that they were turned on by photos of apes making love, the women denied it. When shown the evidence that the sensors attached to their privates showed they were indeed turned on….the women said, “I like apes their cute.”

Good news for the men expecially metrosexuals who have been shaving their entire bodies for the last fifteen to twenty years, bad news for hairless men who have been top dog for long enough.

The next time a woman says ewww! when she sees your hairy chest, know she’s secretly turned on. Pound your chest a couple of times and it’s over.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:08 pm 60. Rachel Peepers:

Rachel’s modest proposal.

1.

Emphasize that Obama is an unrepentent liar.

His Wastefulness Bill has 8,000 obscene money down the toilet, 60 million for the study of tatoo art, earmarks.

Then blatantly in the next breathe Dumbo says there are no earmarks in the stimulus bill. Hammer this falsie into the wood that serves as grey matter for slobbering Obama lovers.

2.

Joke about Obama’s Dumbo ears with Obama supporters every chance you get. Like, “heard the one about Air Force 1 losing power over Maryland?
No problem, Obama just stuck his ears out through the emergency hatch and they glided right into Dulles”.

And buy a gun.
Have a nice day,
Rachel

And buy a gun.
Have a nice day,
Rachel

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:11 pm 61. Rachel Peepers:

Preferably, a repeater.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:17 pm 62. Pat J:

56. Mongoose:

Pat J: I think everyone here gets the feeling that you have not the slightest idea of what you are talking about.
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Mongoose, even an educated person such as yourself can probably see how distasteful this cartoon was on all sorts of levels. Admit it. You were offended. Go on. Admit it.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:24 pm 63. seven:

http://www.russellsage.org/programs/main/culturalcontact/goff_atiba__phillip

More on Meatball Professor goff. Let me begin with his bigoted pressupositions. He studies “presedential” types in the Denver Police department offenders pool. Is this where he finds black criminals that speak against white officers? Feel they are victums of bias? Does goff actually insult blacks by thinking black thugs are where he gets an objective viewpoint of black attitudes?

Goff may be a tad light on experimental design. Having a doctorate from Harvard in African-american studies specifically tells us he did not study whites but seems to know the group he did not study.

He is the poster child for invalid scientific inquiry.

We don’t dissertation in horses to write articles about cowboys either.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:29 pm 64. LynnS:

My son’s ears stick out and I told him if anyone says something derogatory just say, “The better to hear you coming before I see you.”

His grandfather, who’s ears stick out, while in an American uniform was in Canada with a friend, and a French Canadian walking behind said something in French about his ears causing the group to start laughing. His French Canadian friend turned around and decked the guy. Their laughter stopped, but my son’s Grandfather stills laughs about it today.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:46 pm 65. Self-hating Boomer:

even an educated person such as yourself can probably see how distasteful this cartoon was on all sorts of levels

Indeed, it was quite offensive to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and more specifically their staffers who actually wrote the stimudoggle that Harry and Nancy didn’t even read. And yes, the offense was intentional. Those staffers should be subject to far worse than being compared to a chimpanzee.

Feb 26, 2009 - 12:54 pm 66. Paul from Hamburg:

Pat J:
“I get the feeling everyone who has posted snarky remarks regarding Dr. Goff’s study is a white male”. Thank you for admitting your own racial prejudices.

Regarding Goff and his study, a few things stand out.
1. As an assistant professor, he is almost certainly untenured and therefore in a feverish “publish or perish” mode. This doesn’t automatically invalidate his results, but it certainly prevents an uncritical acceptance of his description. In any case, your recitation of his credentials is meaningless. It is a simple argument from authority and proves nothing.
2. Goff’s description of his research includes absolutely no methodological details. We are not told how the “associations” are defined and measured, the statistical analysis used to evaluate the results or the subject pool and sample size.
3. Goff says “That is, when they thought of apes, they thought of blacks and vice versa — when they thought of blacks, they thought of apes.” Even if true, I don’t find this particularly compelling. When people think of “apes” they are most likely really thinking of gorillas, or maybe chimpanzees. Gorillas and chimpanzees live in Africa. African-Americans came from Africa. If I tell people to think about Australians, they will probably also start thinking about kangaroos.
4. We don’t know whether his results have been published in peer-reviewed journals and replicated by other researchers.

Feb 26, 2009 - 1:26 pm 67. Someone75:

Common – are you guys really that dense? You don’t see the connection here? The Monkey was the writer of the stimulus bill. Obama is credited with “writing” the stimulus bill. See the connection now?

Look – I don’t think the cartoon advocates assassination, but you have to admit somebody used extremely poor judgment.

So much conservative whining over nothing. Sounds like the GOP are the new democrats.

Feb 26, 2009 - 1:28 pm 68. seven:

Stop already. Stop with the caricatures that the chimp is being equated with Nancy pelosi is fair. What do chimps do to be insulted and compared with Nancy?

We need to have more respect for the animals.

Feb 26, 2009 - 1:34 pm 69. LynnS:

“Look – I don’t think the cartoon advocates assassination, but you have to admit somebody used extremely poor judgment.”

Yes, the democrats used extremely poor judgement writing the stimulus bill.

And that is why the NAACP and Al Sharpton went APE SH!t. A diversion.

Feb 26, 2009 - 1:45 pm 70. Pat J:

66. Paul from Hamburg:

“Thank you for admitting your own racial prejudices.”
You’re welcome. I have no problem confronting my own racism. Sadly some of the other posters on this site do.

“Regarding Goff and his study,”…

Good points.

That’s because most of his research for this subject is qualitative anaylsis as opposed to quantitative analysis. Granted it still has to demonstrate some sort of methodology in order to be valid. For instance the number of interviewees and test subjects were not indicated since this was more of a synopsis.

–
This has been a very good discussion by the way. This and the Eric Holder comments tends to make one think how far we’ve come regarding discussions of racism in society.

Feb 26, 2009 - 1:54 pm 71. seven:

Phillip Atiba Goff ‘99 has a calling.

As he sees it, contemporary black America is analogous to a rape victim, with all the connotations that that status brings. They struggle with powerlessness, voicelessness and self-loathing. White America is analogous to the rapist, associated with an inverse, if equally resonant, set of images. They struggle with guilt, cultural ignorance and the desire to protect their own privilege.

Goff is himself biracial, and although he identifies himself as black, he believes his mixed lineage gives him no choice but to be responsible to both the rapist and the rape victim–to help the black community restore its damaged voice, while simultaneously convincing the white community of the need for change.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=105716

He isn’t really a psychologist. Just another blogger entitled professor.

He appears to have a gift for being a self appointed pioneer in cultural Marxism (political correctness police)Classical victumhood status Ann coulter openly confronts in GUILTY

Feb 26, 2009 - 1:56 pm 72. Delia:

69. LynnS:

“And that is why the NAACP and Al Sharpton went APE SH!t. A diversion.”
~

LMAO! Good ‘un! he-he-he!

Hey, Boomer maybe the cartoonist should have used this idea: A group of vampires lying on the ground grasping pages from the Porkulus bill with stakes through their hearts and the Vampire Killer/s saying exactly the same line the cop in the original cartoon said. Voila! No chimps or white policemen [since nobody ever mentions the implied insult to our men in blue who protect our asses] insulted! -And, because vampires don’t really exist…there wouldn’t be an insult to said vampires.

Here’s another excellent article btw:
http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=580

-And, Rachel P., here’s my disposable electronic mail address if you’d ever like to write each other behind the scenes: che4z-lb@yahoo.co.uk

Keep yer powder dry!

Feb 26, 2009 - 2:30 pm 73. hp:

couldn’t help but wonder about the “coincidence” of king kong coming on tv late last night.

just sayin’

Feb 26, 2009 - 2:58 pm 74. Parabellum:

“Mike McNally blogs at Monkey Tennis Centre.”

RACIST!

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:05 pm 75. Delia:

hp, lol! King Kong! Maybe THAT is the culprit behind women in that study getting aroused by monkey genitals. That woman who owned the chimp reportedly slept, ate and bathed with it…’other’ implications have been laughingly brought up on the news. *ewwwwwww*

Anyone who can look at a baboon butt and be sexually stimulated needs their head checked though. ;p

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:19 pm 76. Peter the Bubblehead:

50. Pat J wrote:
Furthermore, anyone who doesn’t realize the cartoon ties the chimp to Obama’s stimulus package is an utter idiot.

Peter repeats for perhaps the hundreth time: The only utter idiot in this discussion is the person who refuses to acknowledge that CONGRESS writes the laws (as alluded to being represented by Travis the Chimp). The President SIGNS the laws (and Obama was NOWHERE in that cartoon, unless you are so bitterly racist that you HAVE to see Obama when you look at a chimp!)

Chimp writing stupid, overblown Porkulus bill = CONGRESS

Obama = NOT present in that cartoon!

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:21 pm 77. Peter the Bubblehead:

I will now be ignoring Pat J for the rest of this threat because he has nothing useful or intelligent to add to the discussion.

I suggest everyone else do the same.

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:21 pm 78. Peter the Bubblehead:

53. Moogie wrote:
It’s funny how absolutely NO ONE is telling us what the cartoonist’s intent was.

Peter writes: The cartoonist told us what the cartoonist’s intent was a couple of days after the cartoon was printed when Sharpton and his gang o’ protestors for any occasion started going ape (pun intended) over it.

His intent was to show how stupid it was for CONGRESS to write such a pork-filled, non-stimulating so-called stimulus bill and then push it through the legislature by force before anyone (and I mean ANYONE) had a chance to read a single page of the Porkzilla bill.

He has been explaining this ever since.

It is not the cartoonists fault that there are people out there (Revvy Al, the man with all the money but no real job) who will use anything they can to push their own agenda of victimhood.

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:25 pm 79. Peter the Bubblehead:

67. Someone75 wrote:
are you guys really that dense? You don’t see the connection here? The Monkey was the writer of the stimulus bill. Obama is credited with “writing” the stimulus bill. See the connection now?

Peter responds: No, I really don’t. Because even Obama emphasises Pelosi and Reid (particularly Pelosi) wrote the Porkulus bill. That way he has an easy out, so when the stimulus doesn’t work he can simply throw Queen Nancy under the bus (he’s so good at that) and say “That bill wasn’t MY idea!”

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:30 pm 80. Delia:

Peter, agreed. It’s not worth wasting brain cell activity on some of the blind ‘one’ worshippers who come here to pot stir.

See no truth, hear no truth, speak no truth = The Zero Admin.

Oops. Another monkey reference! *wringing hands*

NOT.

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:50 pm 81. seven:

Phillip Atiba Goff

Seems to be driving down the highway of life with a headlite burned out. He studies black felons (victums) whose singular intention is to commit felonies and get arrested to prove racial profiling is alive and well.

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:55 pm 82. Revoltocon:

The truth is that the cartoon was not racist in intent or any other way. Racism reared its ugly head when the pathetic individual(s) flagged it as racist! My ancestors walked the Trail of Tears, but there’s not an individual walking the face of this earth today who had a FREAKING THING TO DO WITH IT! In my way of thinking, having people around you be sensitive to what they are allowed to say or do is extremely racist!

Feb 26, 2009 - 3:58 pm 83. Heh:

It’s very simple. Leftists are either very dumb (the followers, the trolls at PJM) or clever cynical manipulators of the selfsame dumb people (the leaders, such as Obama and his crew, or all the professional race hustlers). So the cynical ones will purposely call attention to anything that might remotely appear “racist” in order to control discourse. The dumb ones will scream and make noise. Like apes.

Feb 26, 2009 - 4:12 pm 84. Diddy Kong:

Enough of this monkey business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urfgsdJjENw

Feb 26, 2009 - 4:32 pm 85. davod:

Just wait until they start on the ears.

Feb 26, 2009 - 4:42 pm 86. Delia:

85. davod:

“Just wait until they start on the ears.”
~

Why wait?

Ears: Thing Airforce One and Thing Airforce Two are on auto-pilot anyhow.

Sadly, he only listens to the ocean in his own empty shells.

;p

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:23 pm 87. john from cinncinatti:

ok. he looks more like curious george. curious George signs the porkulous bill.ok i have to admit it.

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:51 pm 88. typos_R_us:

Someone75:

When you see things that others don’t, it’s time to check your koolaid for additives.

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:53 pm 89. acj:

Okay, I’m sorry but the south might seem excepting of race, but on their own terms…and it still is shut up and find your place and we will all get along. And yes, we all came from apes.
And yes, if we were we to make a conclusions without thought? And were we guilty if we came up with conclusions and realisations?
Hmmm. Our society is complex. But don’t you just love how Michelle, Barack and their kids are so great. They are great. Greatness is so much a part of our lives too.
I am not enthralled, but I am inspired.

Feb 26, 2009 - 5:58 pm 90. acj:

Heh….The left are far from dumb. The left are far more educated than you. Be careful of who YOU listen too.

Feb 26, 2009 - 6:03 pm 91. Nedarc:

It is quite aparent that more Black’s beleave in Darwin than White’s or we would not have these problems.

Feb 26, 2009 - 7:33 pm 92. NWMA:

Who knew Curious George was black? I always thought he was a monkey. Obammy is no more black than he is white. Sorry.

Feb 26, 2009 - 7:50 pm 93. joe:

Actually this is the beginning of a push for another employment program for all those who wasted time in college studying African American studies. These esteemed graduates were surprised to discover about the only job they could get with their major was busing table. This was truly beneath them.

I am sure Mr. Tambourine Man will come up with some new regulation requiring all business to have a sensitivity czar on staff.

Then people like ajc can get paid for doing nothing.

Feb 26, 2009 - 8:10 pm 94. Mongoose:

acj: The left are more educated? That is profoundly untrue, and exposes both your ignorance and arrogance, not to mention a very limitedrealeducation. It is an absurd statement.

You must be talking about BS “victimlogy”, “soft humanities” or “government service and policy” degrees. Folks that hold these sorts of degree can hardly be considered “educated” at all. Working, public sector engineers and scientist tend to be libertarians, not liberals. So are most medical professionals.

In fact, when one excludes professional areas that are not directly dependent on Government monies, one will find that those professionals are almost all right of center.

Middle class professionals pay a substantial amount in taxes, so of course they are not “leftists”–they do not have the resources to evade taxes such as the very wealthy do. It is the independently wealthy that tend to be Democrats. All those urban intercity democrats? That is just why they are voting Democrat, they have not the education to compete in the market place so they live a parasitical live on the public dole or work in low level government jobs. Labor unions? Well, only poorly educated people are in the union ranks and file. Yes, the democrats have conned some young hipsters, but this again is due more to the fact that this group is easy manipulated due to its immaturity, arrogance, gullibility, fearfulness and ignorance. I imagine, ACJ, that it is just this last demographic were we would find you. I will point out they the successful ones in this group tend to grow out of leftism as they grow up and figure out how the real world works.

Here you are comically putting forth a contradictory argument it on the face of it for it directly contradicts the Democrats electoral strategy. The democrats have formed a constituency of the very rich, the poor and lower working class to attack the professional and entrepreneurial middle classes, and it is these middle classes that must rely on education and business acumen to earn their money. You are actually contradicting yourself.

Just who do you think the democrats are leveling those “taxes on the rich” at? They are not “The Rich”, they are the professional upper middle class and the small to medium sized business owner. Go look at county election maps and figure this out. You will find that the middle class areas tend to vote GOP. It is quite clear that these areas have the greater education. Here you have to exclude areas with a heavy concentration of academics or government employees. The difference in voting patterns with these groups, however, is not a function of their education, but rather of a reflection of the fact that their paymaster is the Government.

yet again,ACJ, you have everything completely backwards, but then you are a liberal.

Feb 26, 2009 - 8:24 pm 95. Mongoose:

Working, public sector == Working, private sector

Feb 26, 2009 - 8:26 pm 96. glenn:

Can I say “Monkey Around”? I’m not going to do it, just talk about it.

Feb 26, 2009 - 9:02 pm 97. Paul -Indiana:

Leonard Pitts [Miami Herald] refered to old newspaper articles in which Blacks were referred to in ape terms. He gad to go back to 1929 for the most recent example.

Feb 27, 2009 - 6:28 am 98. LynnS:

After reading about the study of men and woman having sensors applied to their private parts while being shown erotic pictures, I will never be able to think of the words ‘private sector’ again without a chuckle.

And now for the word stimulus….hehehe.

I go ape for you baby.

Feb 27, 2009 - 8:09 am 99. Paul -Indiana:

#72. Delia, who says we don’t exist?

Feb 27, 2009 - 9:30 am 100. Delia:

99. Paul -Indiana:

“Delia, who says we don’t exist?”
~

‘We’ eh? Fangs for the memories…
-

So are ‘The Monkeys’ reruns going to be banned too? )

Feb 27, 2009 - 9:51 am 101. Pat J:

77. Peter the Bubblehead:
—————————-
One last thing. Let’s also consider the source of the cartoon. The NY Post. Nothing more than a gossip tabloid trying to disguise itself as a newspaper.

Feb 27, 2009 - 10:01 am 102. LynnS:

The Grrrr apes of Wrath coming from the left about a cartoon featured in a so-called gossip tabloid perfectly shines on the feeble attempts by some to find racism in every nook and cranny.

The irony is, if they would have waited a few weeks a “real” story of alleged racism would have made headlines. Ya know the racist police officer stopping a car of African Americans. He probably wasn’t a Republican though so story ends……of course

Feb 27, 2009 - 10:48 am 103. Peter the Bubblehead:

102. LynnS wrote:
The Grrrr apes of Wrath coming from the left about a cartoon featured in a so-called gossip tabloid

Peter writes: Sorry, Lynn, but the Post is far from considered a gossip tabloid. At one time it was considered on par with papers like the NYT (but we’ve seen where THAT paper is heading now too).

The NY Post was established by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 and is considered the oldest continuously published newspaper in the US.

Feb 27, 2009 - 12:35 pm 104. Self-hating Boomer:

Who cares what a paper is “considered”?

Feb 27, 2009 - 3:58 pm 105. Battlecat:

Two points:

Muslims compare Jews to “apes and pigs” every day. Where is the outrage? Why isn’t that racist?!

Human beings are all, in fact, descendants of apes (or at least descendants of a common ancestor). So why can Bush be a chimp, but Obama/Congress can not?

Feb 27, 2009 - 4:01 pm 106. Delia:

105. Battlecat:

Your two points of TRUTH don’t fit into Liberal Agenda.

Feb 27, 2009 - 4:20 pm 107. Seedyrom:

It’s only a matter of time before they demand an apology for not having blacks in the movie “Logan’s Run” and for killing off adults at the age of 30. I wonder if senior citizens in Hollywood will be outraged? I know I’ll never care except to make a joke of people who refuse to accept fiction for fiction. Hollywood is so fake as is the outrage over a movie that is FICTION. These morons are wasting our time with such trivial nonsense.

Now that’s just silly, a man apologizes for making a fiction film ending. Only a liberal would cave in and
apologize. Far left Hollywood weirdo’s watch a movie and think the movie is gonna have a real impact
on the public.

Hollywood has some pathetic lost souls wandering around hoping to appease those offended by fiction.

When is someone gonna force Al Gore to apologize for using real Americans in his Global Warming scandal, lol! I want to be appeased and compensated, lol!!

Feb 27, 2009 - 4:33 pm 108. Peter the Bubblehead:

Seedyrom @ #107:

You need to read further than the opening paragraph. That whole opening was parody.

And Self-hating Boomer @ #104, the only reason I was making the paper comment really was just to let Pat J know I didn’t go away. I’m just ignoring all his/her posts as I normally do.

Feb 27, 2009 - 4:44 pm 109. Delia:

108. Peter the Bubblehead,

Yeah, Peter but ya gotta admit that was an adorable rant by CD-ROM just the same. lol

Feb 27, 2009 - 4:49 pm 110. Horace Wells:

Maybe someone should make a cartoon about all the business men and investors who screwed us over and have them all meet in a schul and have big hooked noses. Who could find that offensive, after all plenty of Christians have big noses?

Feb 27, 2009 - 6:46 pm 111. Horace Wells:

But when cons go bonkers, say over phony War on Christmas stories, like that disreputable Tammy Bruce accusing the media of trying to defame Christmas when the news called the man who dressed as Santa and murdered 9 people on Christmas the “Santa Killer”, most of the same folks gave her a high five. Cons are so hypocritical; they are willing to insult and accuse everyone else of being racists, anti-Semitic, un-American, Communist, traitors but when in blows back on them, they go into some pollyanna poor little victim of political correctness mode. Sheesh, give me a break!

Feb 27, 2009 - 6:53 pm 112. Delia:

110. Horace Wells,

There have been plenty of anti-Semitic cartoons that Jews don’t get ‘ruffled’ about. They have an actual sense of HUMOR and don’t take shizzle too seriously.

BTW, my husband’s Italian family looks Jewish. Go figure? We are both ‘Gentiles’ but we are not ‘INFIDELS’ as ISLAM would have us.

Who hates freedom of speech?

Extremists.

Who burns/bans books?

Extremists.

Who wants to turn our country into a third world country?

Extremists.

Thanks for listening.

Feb 27, 2009 - 7:02 pm 113. vertue:

YOU JUST DON’T GET IT. Only blacks and muslims can scream racism. Whether it’s intended or even real has nothing to do with a chance to play the victim. Ever hear of BET? That’s the black entertainment network, IF there was ever a CET ( caucasion entertainment network) The cries and charges of racism and bigotry would be unending. You might say that T.V. IS CET, but it isn’t, plenty of blacks, asians, latinos abound on it. The blacks , for all their crying about inclusion , want to be separate. Why the need for a black Miss America pagent when there have already been black women named Miss America? Remember, for the blacks, racism is an industry.

Feb 28, 2009 - 9:12 am 114. jonboy:

I said bufoon officier, not baboon?

Feb 28, 2009 - 10:24 am 115. JackT:

They need black entertainment, congressional black caucuses, and other black organization because they do not otherwise get fair consideration. They couldn’t play baseball with the whites so they had to create the negro league. And every single player was better than any white player in the majors. Blacks had to create their own hockey league in the late 1800s in Canada, drew much larger crowds than the white hockey players, and were superior athletes on the ice. If not for racism, there would have been no need for a black hockey league. So until there is 100% equality in our country, I guess we will continue to see blacks having to create their own section of american life. White racists will have us think that there is no longer a need to struggle for equal rights, that everything is ok now that Obama was elected, this is smoke screen. What they’re attempting is to slow the advancement of black people by proclaiming the end of racism. Then they turn around and blame blacks for seeking equality, or an apology for slavery or reparations. And btw, why would we need to promote white people, why would we need a caucasian entertainment network, they already own everything. If this country had practiced equality as written in the founding documents, then NAACP would never have been born, BET would not exist, Congressional Black Caucus would not exist, as well as any of the other “black” organizations. We will never reach 100% equality for all american citizens, that’s a foregone conclusion. Because you cannot legislate morality. It’s just not achievable in a world where humans have lost their way and chosen to live outside of love.

Feb 28, 2009 - 10:50 am 116. JackT:

Primates are ok, chimp jokes are ok, they’re kinda cute actually. It’s just that when a chimp joke is tied to or associated with Obama when there is no obvious link, then if you’re a reasonably sane adult, you should know how it’s going to be interpreted by the public. This ad would not have printed if Bush was still in the white house. Blacks have been called chimps for centuries, so why wouldn’t the Post see the connection and chose not to run the cartoon? And why not make one of the cops black, that would have defused it a lot. But they intentionally wanted to print an ugly, insensitive, racially charged cartoon, aimed squarely at a president they detest. Your article is a clear example of how racists think. They want to be able to spew their hatred while deflecting full responsibility for their actions, at the same time, blaming those who are offended by it. We know racism when we see it, we don’t need to have it interpreted. But remember, evil is blind, it’s incapable of recognizing goodness or decency. An egotistical, hateful, fearful brain will shut down the section that controls common sense, it has to survive, it has to attack, it’s primary purpose is to destroy, even if that means destroying itself.

Feb 28, 2009 - 11:11 am 117. gnubi:

THe insult is clearly that “they” must have hired a monkey to write the stupid bill. The fact that the WashPost didn’t even see a potential issue here tells me that they’re more color blind than their detractors. Good for them and the sooner Sharpton and his ilk has to go back to buying off the rack the better.

Feb 28, 2009 - 11:41 am 118. vonschloegel:

When we allow the Left to determine which speech is acceptable, we’ve lost the First Amendment.

Here’s a great article on the dangers of allowing Political Correctness to define the debate:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/02/27/dirty-harry-jokes/

Feb 28, 2009 - 12:07 pm 119. vertue:

Jack t. There is money in racism, it’s an high income industry, just ask Al Sharpton or Jackson.
If anyone should have been offended by that cartoon it should have been Pelosi and Reid, the REAL writers of the bill. Oh by the way, 0bama isn’t black , according to him he’s a “mutt”, meaning mixed parentage.

Feb 28, 2009 - 12:17 pm 120. vertue:

Barack Hussein 0bama ( aka Barry Dunham), the first affirmative action president.

Feb 28, 2009 - 12:23 pm 121. gnubi:

Sorry, I meant NYPost. Saw the cartoon in a WashPost article.

Feb 28, 2009 - 12:24 pm 122. grownwomon:

Wow! Jack T… Bravo post 115. And 116 wrapped up nicely.

Feb 28, 2009 - 6:29 pm 123. Just_Saying:

Interesting about the big deal over the ape reference. Lincoln’s cabinet included apes, too! (”I … imagined that such a lot of poltroons and apes could be gathered together from the four quarters of the Globe as he has succeeded in bringing together in his Cabinet.” p 396, Goodwin’s Team of Rivals)

Mar 1, 2009 - 12:35 am 124. jack:

All this political correctness drives me nuts! Or should I say BANANAS!

Just think if someone took that lithograph picture we always see at the print shops. You know, the one with all the past and present presidents on it in front of the White house. Just think if they added Obama to the picture. They could paint a driveway on it and put Obama out front holding a lantern.

We could call it (OBAMA, the future is bright!!)

Heads would spin.

Mar 1, 2009 - 6:26 pm 125. Oscar the Grump:

Making a man into a caricature of an ape is not right. It is dehumanizing. This is what the Nazis did to the Jews, blacks, slavs, gypsies and others. I don’t like Pelosi but I wouldn’t suggest that she’s an ape.

Seven
You mentioned keeping people in cages for display or study. There is an era in the USA where Racialism was studied. Racialism was the comparative study of man and his differences. It was the basis of stating that the white Nordic types were superior to Slavs, Jews, Blacks, Chinese etc. By using this “scientific” data, immigration was severely limited to the above mentioned groups. The Nazis used this same information to prove that their race was superior. We saw the result of this phony science.

Jack T
That was a well written blog. Thanks for saying it so well.

Mar 1, 2009 - 9:48 pm 126. Oscar the Grump:

Some of the stuff stated here turns my stomach. Racism is not Conservatism.

Mar 1, 2009 - 9:53 pm 127. vertue:

Jack T = professional apologist and “blacks are victims” re-enforcement spcialist.

Mar 2, 2009 - 9:36 am 128. vertue:

specialist

Mar 2, 2009 - 9:36 am 129. bob:

stick and stones may break your bones but words and cartoons can never hurt you.

Laugh at the picture if you dont like the stimulus bill.

Cry if you think Obama is a man you care about

No ones right no ones wrong

sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never hurt you.

Listen, Obama made a comment about the poor white folks who stick to their guns and religon.( us rednecks) I guess obama is a racist. He needs to step down.

No , he is a man who made a statement. The left loves him. so the double standard is here.

But us rednecks were taught.(STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK OUR BONES BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HURT ME)

Grow up LIBERALS

Mar 2, 2009 - 3:21 pm 130. kenn:

I must say I really didn’t associate the whole black thing with the cartoon. An educated person would correlate the old saying (monkey see monkey do!) . This is how the whole presidency to democratic congress is acting.

America cannot afford this irresponsibility.

I think only the people who think it was a black thing are racist.

By the way, the reason this whole whites are racist is ridiculous. The reason there is no traction is due to the fact that 90% of whites are not racist. Sure wouldn’t it be great if we had no racism at all. Your damn right! But please tell African Americans that they must not be racist. They are by far the most racist group of people in America. Ask any race or ethnic background. The will all tell you the same.

Mar 2, 2009 - 4:08 pm 131. vertue:

African -American is a self employed racist title. IF, you’re from Africa and have come to America and than became an American citizen , than you might refer to yourself as an ” African- American. Being born in America and calling yourself that is devisive, and just plain silly. How many of you out there refer to yourdelves as a ” “Mongloid-American? or a ” Caucasion -American? ( those are the two other recognized races)

Mar 3, 2009 - 1:37 pm 132. Crazy11:

The molecule presents the same solidity of structure as a crystal. ,

Oct 22, 2009 - 2:33 pm

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