Thursday, February 19, 2009
The NY Post apologizes
For that shitty cartoon they ran yesterday. It's a pretty poor excuse for an apology, but a major break from the usual NY Post policy of never apologizing for anything.
Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.Rumor has it that Rupe the Poop was livid over the publication of the cartoon, (watch KO here)
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.
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