NY Post looks forward to monkey-president's assassination...

[JackRiddler]

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...by agents of the state. No white hoods will be necessary, the service revolver will suffice. Just a wild, rabid animal to put down.



Anyone care to tell me I'm seeing things?

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(edit, months later: to insert graphic, as it had been removed from original link at NY Post)

[Penguin]

What the fuck!
At least here, publishing that would get you a day in court, for sure...
A (poorly) veiled threat, that is!

Notice also the distinct three shot pattern that all cops learn by rote - three shots, in a tight spread. Unless they go for the "several clips" option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bell

On March 16, 2007, three of the five police officers involved in the shooting were indicted by a grand jury. Officer Gescard Isnora, who fired the first shot, and Officer Michael Oliver, who fired 31 of the 50 shots, faced charges of manslaughter, reckless endangerment and assault; while Detective Marc Cooper faced the lesser charge of two counts of reckless endangerment.

[AlicetheKurious]

No way.

Anyone care to tell me I'm seeing things?

Sometimes I think we're all "seeing things" living in a lunatic's demented reality construct.

[brainpanhandler]

Other works by the cartoonist, Sean Delonas:

http://gawker.com/5155855/ten-masterpie ... an-delonas




The Sean Delonas web site is currently unavailable. Please check back.

[Penguin]

What an asshole..
I hope his website will be permanently unavailable...

[bks]

I saw it and had the same shocked/disgusted reaction, yet racism in big-city papers is rarely this naked, is it? There had to be some 'reason' for this, I figured.

Sure enough, there was a story in Connecticut recently where a chimpanzee mauled a woman, which supposedly provided the immediate 'context' for this.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494067,00.html

Obviously I don't agree it makes this cartoon funny or acceptable, but that's the explanation I heard.

I think the cartoon's intended logic goes something like this: "The person responsible for creating the ESP is as crazy as the chimpanzee that bit off that woman's hands, and which was recently killed for it."

Just hilarious.

By the way, the chimp was reported to have been on Xanax, though that may be bullshit.

[Penguin]

Thats just a very, very poor excuse. I read that story and I didnt think of making a cartoon like that

[brainpanhandler]

What an asshole..
I hope his website will be permanently unavailable...

Now, now Penguin.... asshole he most certainly is, but I'd nonetheless defend his right to assholery. Not to the death mind you, but I'd defend it.

I'm assuming his website has been overrun with traffic and/or overwhelmed with negative comments.

The cartoon is obvious race baiting and Sharpton swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

The cartoon is crafted in such a way that The Post can defend it as being related to the story of Travis the chimp that's been in the recent news cycle, but anyone with half a brain can read between the lines. However, to read between those lines opens one to the fatuous counter charge of being racist oneself.

What's up with the sign on the pole though? Beware of dog signs are not typically posted on poles on public streets, are they? And all you can really make out are the words war and dog.

[bks]

I think that's the point, penguin. To go from Travis the chimp to Obama implies some serious association issues.

It's not the cartoonist who has the most blame here (they're prone to pushing the envelope, given their typical job circumstances). It's the editors who decided it was fit to print.

[Penguin]

The cartoon is crafted in such a way that The Post can defend it as being related to the story of Travis the chimp that's been in the recent news cycle, but anyone with half a brain can read between the lines. However, to read between those lines opens one to the fatuous counter charge of being racist oneself.

What's up with the sign on the pole though? Beware of dog signs are not typically posted on poles on public streets, are they? And all you can really make out are the words war and dog.

Or is it Wag the dog?

Yeah, sure I hope he gets his servers back up - but I hope it takes some money and work!

And I disagree about it "making one racist". It simply means one is astute enough to be able to emphatize with people who think differently, even reprehensibly. And looking at his other great cartoons, I am confident my reading is correct. In my country, many of those other ones too, would have landed him in court, probably punished with fines. For incitement against a minority group. (on edit - Im sorry dear, I missed the word "fatuous" - or my non anglosaxon brain didnt translate it the first go!)

[Penguin]

I think that's the point, penguin. To go from Travis the chimp to Obama implies some serious association issues.

It's not the cartoonist who has the most blame here (they're prone to pushing the envelope, given their typical job circumstances). It's the editors who decided it was fit to print.

It does not need any chimp. All it needs is the words "stimulus package". Everyone with 1/8th of a brain knows who passed it.

And knowledge of who voted NO.

This reminds me of the Muslim cartoon outrage...They were published widely, but what happened then?

Rose wrote: "The modern, secular society is rejected by some Muslims. They demand a special position, insisting on special consideration of their own religious feelings. It is incompatible with contemporary democracy and freedom of speech, where you must be ready to put up with insults, mockery and ridicule."

He later argued that the publishing of the cartoons could mean an "inclusion" instead of an "exclusion" of ethnic minorities like Muslims, arguing that Muslims at last were a part of the European societies as much as the rest of the population when there were made cartoons of their religious authorities as well. When asked: "But you depicted Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, armed with a knife and with a broken halo that resembled satanic horns." Rose replied: "The cartoon with horns didn't arouse special criticism; it was the other two. The one with the bomb in his turban doesn't say, "All Muslims are terrorists," but says, "Some people have taken Islam hostage to permit terrorist and extremist acts." These cartoons do not treat Muslims in any other way than we treat other citizens in this country. By treating them as equals, we are saying, "You are equal."

When asked whether he had any regrets about commissioning the cartoons, he said: "That is a hypothetical question. I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discothèque." (Jyllands-Posten 11 Dec. 2005; Politiken 16 Dec. 2005)

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Holocaust cartoons

On 8 February 2006, Flemming Rose said in interviews with CNN and TV 2 that Jyllands-Posten planned to reprint satirical cartoons depicting the Holocaust that the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri planned to publish. He told CNN "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with that Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them". Later that day the paper's editor-in-chief said that Jyllands-posten under no circumstances would publish the Holocaust cartoons. [1] and Flemming Rose later said that "he had made a mistake".[2] [3]. The next day Carsten Juste, the editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, stated that Flemming Rose was on indefinite leave because he needed time off.[4]. After some months Rose returned to Jyllands-Posten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_Rose
http://www.danielpipes.org/3405/those-d ... ons-and-me

Yeah...

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10253
The Daniel Pipes apologetic article from Flemming Rose/Jyllands Posten
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Flemming "Muhammad cartoons" Rose traveled to Philadelphia in 2004 in order to meet Daniel Pipes (the neo con who’s advocating to keep US muslims in concentration camps). Here’s the translation of the article that ensued.

[elpuma]

Wild! Isn't the N.Y. Post a Rupert Murdoch publication? Hmmmmm.....

[Avalon]

What an asshole..
I hope his website will be permanently unavailable...

Now, now Penguin.... asshole he most certainly is, but I'd nonetheless defend his right to assholery. Not to the death mind you, but I'd defend it.

I'm assuming his website has been overrun with traffic and/or overwhelmed with negative comments.

The cartoon is obvious race baiting and Sharpton swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

The cartoon is crafted in such a way that The Post can defend it as being related to the story of Travis the chimp that's been in the recent news cycle, but anyone with half a brain can read between the lines. However, to read between those lines opens one to the fatuous counter charge of being racist oneself.

What's up with the sign on the pole though? Beware of dog signs are not typically posted on poles on public streets, are they? And all you can really make out are the words war and dog.

Good observation on the sign. Yeah, it's a public street because the cars are parked in marked spaces. The usual sign might be "Curb your dog."
What disturbs me as well is that that the smoke of the gun and the peculiar structure of the wheel well appear to form a prominant ear -- "Listen to me."

Gawker reminds people that this is Black History month, and notes that that the date of the cartoon's publication is an interesting one: "In other news: on this day in 1688, the first formal protest against slavery by an organized white body in English America was made.

[robotilt]

As to why it was published... I assumed it's part of the campaign to make the stimulus package all about race and giving money to black people rather than it being about welfare for wall street...

[barracuda]

- Totally did not see race at first glance,

- Travis the chimp story came to mind, but it is not a humorous human interest story to reference, as the victim had her face and hands virtually chewed off, and viewing that as grist for the cartoon mill, that's in worse taste than the racism,

- The "stimulus" bill is pretty fucked up, a casual reading of some of it I did yesterday showed about fifty billion or so going to the armed forces,

- We have a black president now, there's no such thing as racism in America,

- I'm still waiting for the full-blown watermelon-eating, jive and shuffle Rastus mintsrel caricatures to begin surfacing, I think they're sure to,

- Now that you mention it, the cartoon is kinda funny in a perverse, Jim Crow manner,

- Travis was a beloved pet,

- Get used to it. It's the fucking Post, already.