Spike Lee Calls Post Cartoon "An Insult To Everybody"

The editor and the cartoonist have been asked to resign-

That's not good enough! They should be taken out to Central Park on a Sunday afternoon and executed by garrote !

THEN- their bodies should be dismembered and fed to the monkeys at the Central Park Zoo... -AND THEN-> the monkeys which have taken part in this disgusting feast, should be transported to Florida's Cape Canaveral; loaded into a rocket and launched (or 'lunched') into space headed directly into the sun for complete and total destruction! (There- that got it!)

What a schmuck Spike Jones is! (er... I mean: Spike Lee!)

This is beyond stupid. Obama won by a landslide. Who the hell cares what Australia/China'a affair with American sensationalist journalism has to say about it. End of story.

"Pogroms?" Isn't that a bit harsh?

At the end of the day:

"We need more programs."

Al loved David Dinkens. Look how the two of them brought the city together when ethnic strife surfaced with the Koreans over on the other side of the river.

TAWANA! for council person.

It's funny that the only white people in that "protest" are burnt-out hippies. As far as I know, Congress WROTE the bill, NOT Obama. The cartoon is calling CONGRESS a bunch of chimpanzees. The only racists I see are the people that are inflaming the situation and their mindless and ignorant followers.

Sharpton is feeling the pain of being a nobody.

Last I heard Al was going to be named an ambassador of bad will to the deep south.

You know what to do President Obama.

Your staff is off to a good start,

give a hardy pat on the back to Gibbs for his smackdown on Rick Santelli.

LOL. Tell me what you're smoking. So Gibbs thinks Santelli shouldn't criticise Big Pork Bill without reading it first. Neat, but how many senators read it before they voted for it?

porky pig?

tell me what you're smoking arguing with a guy on teh net who's avatar is of Bernard rubble craping into a pelican's beak? I got nothing to lose.

WWP - glad to see the old bolsheviks are getting in on the ole Sharpton Shakedown.

lulz it's so ironic how the hysteria of the protestors have shown far more racism than the Post cartoon ever did. Was that the Post's intent? If so, bravo.

As someone pointed out here a few days ago, it's not that the idea of Obama as a chimp is more offensive than Bush as a chimp; it's that nobody ever portrayed Bush as a dead chimp lying in a pool of his own blood after being shot by two white cops.

That being said, I don't think the cartoon was supposed to be about Obama. It is nonetheless stupid - and not remotely funny - and the Post is clearly run by idiots because there's no way you couldn't know what kind of reaction this was going to provoke. Unless of course that was what they wanted all along.

From my observations of your postings here, it seems most here are a bunch of chip on the shoulder ignorant cynics who feign open-mindedness by proclaiming all responses to racism overly P.C. while harboring pseudo-racist attitudes of "don't look and it doesn't exist".

On a side note - The stimulus is NOT stealing from us. Every dollar in tax cuts returns 1 lousy cent back to the economy. Every dollar spent on infrastructure or government aid actually returns up to 40-79 cents to the economy. More money being transferred, better quality of life for everyone. What the hell were you going to do with the extra money anyway? Don't be so goddamn selfish.

The cartoon may have been offensive,but that offense was directed at the content of the Stimulus Act and those who created it. It would be offensive to compare any member of the human race to an ape. However comparing the behavior of the creators of the stimulus act to the behavior of a crazed chimp is at least relevant...It makes you think and it sells newspapers

"However comparing the behavior of the creators of the stimulus act to the behavior of a crazed chimp is at least relevant...It [b]makes you think[/b] and it sells newspapers"

How in the world does it "make you think"? It a lame and simplistic juxtaposition that, if anything, encourages you NOT to think.

Perhaps makes "you" think was a bit ambitious. It makes me think about why the cartoonist chose to exercise his right of artistic expression in a manner that would indict the validity of the stimulus act while simultaneously invoking a debate that would expose the race bating agenda of the very paper in which it appears.

Political cartoons are by definition political. They polarize debate and debate sells newspapers

The cartoon may have been offensive,but that offense was directed at the content of the Stimulus Act and those who created it. It would be offensive to compare any member of the human race to an ape. However comparing the behavior of the creators of the stimulus act to the behavior of a crazed chimp is at least relevant...It makes you think and it sells newspapers

The people clamoring most vociferously to twist this political cartoon--which obviously targets Congressional Democrats in general and perhaps Barney Frank in particular--into a racist attack and call to assassinate President Obama comprise groups which exploit racism and seem to want to see such an assassination attempted.

Demagogic politicians like Al Sharpton and entertainers like Spike Lee, who have leveraged their careers on the manipulation of racial animosities, find themselves becoming anachronisms and feel the erosion of their political relevance in an America governed by a biracial president.

Human nature being what it is, it can surprise no one that some people who have carved personal benefit out of racial victimization would secretly like to see an assassination attempt on our first biracial president to enable them to go back to their comfortable exploitation of the politics of victimhood rather than having to step up and compete in the politics of equality.

By twisting this cartoon to spread and amplify the notion of assassinating our biracial president, these self-promoting demagogues are wantonly fanning the flames and increasing the danger that such a horrendous crime might be committed.

FTW

Stop making sense. Hate.

Murdoch's not going to apologize. He's loving every second of this. Are Lee and Sharpton employed by the Post's publicity department?

Spike Lee... An insult to everyone

How can you say it wasn't a racist cartoon? It was so blatantly racist! No matter what your opinion of Al or Spike is (and I have some opinions), that doesn't make that stupid cartoon any less offensive.

spike lee is the black dennis leary.

BH, you're right again.

The original intent of the cartoon probably wasn't racist. However, The editors at the post knew it would illicit this type of response and still ran it knowing they'd incense people who took it the wrong way. Newspapers do millions of studies on this shit, they know how to gauge public opinion and q ratings. they knew it had a high chance of being misinterpreted and stil ran it. That's why they are liable.

When you have old white Commies(WWP is sooo 1930s), phony Black Panthers like Barron (whom the real Panthers despised), and shysters like Sharpton on the same side, you know that side has no credibility.

I wonder why Tawana Brawley, now a Black Muslin, hasn't showed up to spread more lies along with her mentor, Fat Al.

I guess she is still busy removing all that shit that she and Fat Al spread all over her body a few years back.

Do the right thing, keep the dream alive.

Can we please start ignoring Al Sharpton? He is a proven liar and a bigot.

People still buy the New York Post? If there ever was a paper that needed to be read for the sports section alone it's the NY Post.

I stopped buying NYT when my canary died. No need for cage liner. Cannot think of other use for that rag.

waste.of.time. don't give the post more time than they should have...

President Obama's stimulus plan, mortgage bailout plan, TARP II, and a new auto bailout is stealing from me.

I don't care what anyone calls anyone no matter how hurtful it may be*, just don't impinge upon my rights---and Barry's stealing plans are impinging.

*The cartoon was not hurtful. Bush was called a monkey. (see: Erin Burnett) My mother says my brothers and I are "monkeying around" when we're doing dumb things.