On second thought...... You guys are right. Everyone knows that chimpanzees write stimulus packages. Why else would you put a chimpanzee on there? Nahhh no race baiting there.

As for the Curious George reference. The one thing EVERYBODY could agree on was W's intellectual curiosity. He was renowned for his ability to disect a problem and look at it from different angles. This was something he was respected for. Right or wrong you always had the feeling ole W took his time and looked at problems from a myriad of possibilities.

Once again the left is wayyyyyyyyyy off base here.

and the whole shooting thing.......................... It's great when a cartoon takes the extra time and adds the neat little details. No one equates a black politician with being shot. The ancillary benefits of the chimp actually being shot. Priceless

Comparing Pelosi to a chimp is race-baiting? Obama didn't even read the damn TARP before he signed it, much less write it.

If someone is completely ignorant of the local story the cartoon refers to, and is looking at the cartoon with preconcieved racist ideas, then I could understand how someone may call it racism.

A chimp was just shot a couple of days ago after ripping a womans face and hands off. This guy used a current event to poke fun at congress. You guys want to see ghosts where there aren't any, well maybe you need to check your hearts for where you stand on race.

(02-19-2009 10:33 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, what are you guys on!

I think it speaks volumes when something like this has to be spelled out...

On second thought, I would think that it is a good thing that someone doesn't know about the ape/black reference. it heralds good things about society's racist tendencies in general. But the connection is there and it would be disingenuous of anyone involved in the publication of that cartoon to act as if they didn't know that issue would be raised. it's deliberately inflammatory.

(02-19-2009 10:59 AM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  

(02-19-2009 10:33 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, what are you guys on!

I think it speaks volumes when something like this has to be spelled out...

Please spell it out then. We would all love a good laugh.

(02-19-2009 11:01 AM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  On second thought, I would think that it is a good thing that someone doesn't know about the ape/black reference. it heralds good things about society's racist tendencies in general. But the connection is there and it would be disingenuous of anyone involved in the publication of that cartoon to act as if they didn't know that issue would be raised. it's deliberately inflammatory.

OK. Thanks for the good laugh.

(02-19-2009 11:01 AM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  it's deliberately inflammatory.

Many things in the popular media are deliberatly inflammatory. Why is this treated differently?

Seems Obama, Paterson, Clinton...all have pretty thin skin.

IT WAS A MISTAKE!!!!!

That's all I am saying. Admit... Learn from it.........

You think this group of excuse makers would ever admit it?

You're much more of an optimist than me.

(02-18-2009 11:35 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Nobody but republicans call him Messiah. But remember, for him to actually be the "Messiah" or "anti-christ" or anything else that I've heard, he has to actually do something right. But yeah, you know as well as anyone else does that it referred to Obama. Even if it didn't he and the editor should have known that it isn't the best thing to put into the paper.

The Messiah jokes all stem from the many interviews the media did with dimwitted Obama supporters. Over and over these loons referred to a politician (the now President Obama) as the messiah or the savior. Wasn't it his wife that said he was going to save our souls? That's where it came from, not from Republicans that are having fun with it now, when the President doesn't look quite so infallable.

And please, do we have to continue being so sensitive about the whole monkey/black thing. It wasn't an attack on Obama for being part black, it was an attack on how rediculous the bill was. What other symbolism would you have preferred? A man riding on a white horse?

GrayBeard Wrote:What other symbolism would you have preferred? A man riding on a white horse?

Obama doesn't ride a horse like a mere mortal, he rides a unicorn! Geez!

(02-19-2009 11:35 AM)GrayBeard Wrote:  And please, do we have to continue being so sensitive about the whole monkey/black thing. It wasn't an attack on Obama for being part black, it was an attack on how rediculous the bill was. What other symbolism would you have preferred? A man riding on a white horse?

You may be close with that last statement..

I looked, and there was a pale horse! Its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. They were given authority over one-fourth of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and the wild animals of the earth.

Revelation 6:8

Obama is close to "death" for the Capitalism and the Free Market system in the US.

(02-19-2009 09:56 AM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  

(02-19-2009 08:44 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(02-18-2009 07:15 PM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  To wit:

Hey, if you all can't take the heat, well...

Do you honestly not understand why this would be seen as offensive? Really?

If I was a monkey I'd be offended.

Seriously, I saw a monkey being shot at. Any inferences as to who the monkey might be is soley made by the person looking at it.

(02-19-2009 11:06 AM)Paul M Wrote:  

(02-19-2009 11:01 AM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  On second thought, I would think that it is a good thing that someone doesn't know about the ape/black reference. it heralds good things about society's racist tendencies in general. But the connection is there and it would be disingenuous of anyone involved in the publication of that cartoon to act as if they didn't know that issue would be raised. it's deliberately inflammatory.

OK. Thanks for the good laugh.

Racism if funny?

(02-19-2009 11:01 AM)niuhuskie84 Wrote:  ..........society's racist tendencies in general.

Jesus f'kn Christ. If there wasn't a race problem you guys on the left would create one.