New York Post’s Messed Up Apology
” That Cartoon”, the New York Post said… “has created considerable controversy”. (What an understatement!!)
They continue…
“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. However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past – and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback. To them, no apology is due. Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.”
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This is a weak apology. An insensitive apology. A tasteless apology…just like “that cartoon”. Did they have to include that “However,…” portion?
Those deeply offended by “that cartoon” deserved a sincere apology. Not this lingering mess-
Where are their values?
Where are their principles?
And what’s up with that Cartoonist?
Has he bumped his head?????
Perhaps they should consider revisiting their deepest beliefs–find out where the journalist rot started–and address it!
This nonsense sickens those who work hard to embrace diversity -
maybe it would be fitting if others demonstrate their disgust by not buying or advertising in that paper…
and not working with that cartoonist.
Enough is enough!
The rest of us will keep moving forward.
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