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- And, as the public has been riveted by the both the amazing survival of Kati, Penelope and Sabine Kim and the heartbreaking death of James Kim, CNN's Rick Sanchez is talking to outdoors experts about survival tips tonight on Anderson Cooper 360
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*Yesterday, hundreds protested the police shooting death of Sean Bell with signs like "2 Drink Minimum, 50 Shot Maximum"*
maybe these same hundred need to protest the stabbing in union square. condemn it!
racist NY post against black people
Maybe the NYPD should stop shooting at people of colour? Especially unarmed ones.
racist NY post against black people
Please explain this one.
Hello? "Surrender Monkeys!" that's damn racist if I ever saw it.
excellent! I'll feel much better taking the subway tonight and knowing that $1 of my fare went to this deserving gentleman.
"Surrender Monkeys" is in reference to a line from a Simpsons episode where Groundskeeper Willie identifies the French as Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys. The term was later popularized by conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, who often peppers his work with such off-beat references.
As the two people pictured as monkeys on the cover of The Post are elderly white gentleman James Baker and Lee Hamilton--co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group--I'm at a loss to figure how racism is a factor. Of course, if one reads the word monkey and automatically assumes a story has something to do with black people, that would be fairly racist.
Hello? In this case "Surrender Monkeys!" refers to the Iraq Study Group. It derives from the phrase "Cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys" as used on the Simpsons show of April 30th, 1995. You could say the original usage was racist in the sense that it refers to the French. More recently the phrase was often used by conservatives as a very intellectual insult of the French and their opposition to going to war in Iraq.
I think the bronx zoo is racist cause they keep the monkeys in cages.
The NY post is ACTUALLY Technically racist. For example, If they showed two black men's faces in the monkey pictures there would be a public outcry. But since they can only show White people's faces in Monkey pictures, that connotates racism as they have discriminated against Black people in the sense that they can't be treated equally as white people. Only when people of all races can be superimposed on monkeys without fanfare can martin luther king jr's dream be finally accomplished.
I wish gothamist, curbed, et. al had a rating system for comments.. pinot wins for best comment I've read all day
I'm trying to find a chink in Pinot's reasoning, but I can't. That shit is true. hahahah. I just realized I wrote Chink but the other kind. I wasn't being racist but used the cracked armor terminology in a post about misconstrued racism.
I don't understand how a editor of CNET with all those gadgets could get stuck in a blizzard. First of all he must have more than 2 cell phones and a blackberry, laptop and a GPS navigation system with him cause if he doesn't then I'd have to ask WHY is he an editor of CNET? HEll, I don't even have a important job and I got 2 cell phones and a blackberry at the least. and why is he so stupid as to have gone on a remote road with no cars on the road? He might have been courageous to seek help for his family but to get to that point he was pretty stupid.
So much for the Asian nerd with all his electronic toys image.
Like that possessive husband in the Joy Luck Club.
but then it's all Boys and their toys. Whoever has the most toys, wins.
friggin nerds.
It doesn't make sense how a editor of CNET was lost. He didn't bring any maps with him or even had a cell phone in his pocket? Maybe there isn't any cell phone coverage up in the mountains.
"The key to finding the family’s car, police said, was a “ping” from one of the family’s cell phones that helped narrow down their location."
So they did have cell phones..why not use it?
It doesn't make sense how a editor of CNET was lost. He didn't bring any maps with him or even had a cell phone in his pocket? Maybe there isn't any cell phone coverage up in the mountains.
"The key to finding the family’s car, police said, was a “ping” from one of the family’s cell phones that helped narrow down their location."
So they did have cell phones..why not use it?
There are a LOT of remote areas, especially in the West, that are beyond the reach of cell phone coverage. Some people that go camping in those areas rent satellite phones just so they aren't completely out of touch.
Honestly cannot stop digging on that little chiquita in the picture!
So now everybody that's against this stupid war is a monkey huh? Well then I guess I'm a monkey then !
"So now everybody that's against this stupid war is a monkey huh? Well then I guess I'm a monkey then !"
Well, the Rag known as the NY Post is a Murdoch publication.
Wow, some of you people are real assholes. In striving to be politically correct just for your pet minorities (in this case black people) you show your bias pretty clearly. If you are so guilty of being white just fucking kill yourself already.
The comments about the poor man who died trying to find rescue for his wife are just cruel and show your cynicism even more. Fucking jackasses.
They did have maps and cell phones - on the map they were using it didn't said the roads were impassible in winter, and obviously they didn't have cell phone service in a remote mountain area.
it's sad to think that people are calling the Kim dude a hero. It's like he fought off the lion but it was his fault for leading them to the lion's den in the first place.
I apologise for the nerd references but sometimes the Internets gets me sooooo mad when it comes to geeks and nerds. Why don't they just admitt they're nerds. When did Geek become a positive term?
The Kim story is very sad but James Kim is not a hero and should not be regarded as such. He didn't do anything amazing; if anything he helped accelerate his own demise. And he left behind a widow and two orphans because he didn't think his situation through with a clear head.
While hindsight is 20/20, their road trip was poorly planned and when nature takes over (storms, snow, ice, downed trees, impassable roads), you have to be as ready as you can be-- they were not.
The only positive element to this story--besides the fact that the mom and 2 young children lived & were rescued-- was that people will now think twice about downloading directions off the Internet that they blindly follow, going on road trips without telling people where they are going and their expected date/time of arival, having working cell phones and Blackberrys, keeping up-to-date maps and keeping a first aid/emergency kit in their cars.
werd, #22 and #17. "the maps they were using didn't say the roads were impassible in winter," is one of the dumbest things i've ever heard, aside from "this guy's a hero." sometimes ya gotta look around, like "oh, we're in the middle of nowhere, it's snowy, and i'm endangering the lives of my kids and wife...should i A: continue or B: act smart?" stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. stupid. look at self-righteous jack, defender of the stupid! werd, joppoo and pinkerton.
I would find a headline that read: "Surrender, Monkeys."
"The Kims looked over an official Oregon Department of Transportation road map and decided to drive 62 miles south to what appeared to be a more direct route to the southern Oregon coast."
They missed the turnoff on the highway so they decided to go further down and take another route. That seems pretty legitimate to me and could happen to anyone.
People who are so high and mighty about this situation are jerks.
I'll admit to being repulsed by the Post headline (nothing new there) but the feeling was more than offset by the charm of the lovely lady holding it. Erica, resident of Brooklyn: adorable!
hilariously awful, but still scary, post cover. awesome photo. i love gothamist!