Yeah, this is clearly not going to end in fire and destruction

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

NY Post, source of ire

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[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

This guy's cartoons are perfect for Murdoch's NY Post, because they are both juvenile and occasionally racist. Seriously, this guy is so horrible he almost makes Michael Ramirez look good.

For instance, check out yesterday's afternoon (http://www.nypost.com/delonas/2009/02/02172009.jpg). You have an overly exaggerated Paterson caricature-- big nose, cane, seeing-eye dog, etc-- and a guy masturbating. Stay classy, NY Post.

It's the go-to paper for people who find Lindsey Lohan pictures more important than actual news or analysis, and/or who just looking to read Michelle Malkin's latest screeds in actual print.

PS- The NY Post was pro-goverment spending and intervention last Fall (http://politics4geekz.blogspot.com/2008/09/bailout-please.html). Gee, I wonder what changed? WINK!

[desidono.livejournal.com]

re: Paterson - Oh my god, that's horrible.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

Looks like they got him on loan from Hustler.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Boy this story sure has grown legs pretty quickly. Rupert is going to regret this one. Heh.

Context is everything for this though, here's cover for today's Post that ran this editorial cartoon:

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Oh it didn't, it makes it worse in my opinion. I think the cartoon is in pretty poor taste.

[tubaboy81.livejournal.com]

Not better, just less surprising.

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

the NY Post is a fucking rag

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

The last, dying gasps of Rupert Murdoch's relevance.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Don't you believe it. Rupert has risen from the grave more often than Dracula.

[overstim.livejournal.com]

okay, my first reaction was "Its Obama.. oh, holy crap thats racist!!" But then i rethought it, and realized they were just trying to say that the stimuus bill was so screwed up it must have been written by a monkey. And that was funny. But people rarely stop to consider a second possibility. The Post is hosed.

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

Obama? I thought it was Roland Burris.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, Vivian.... it's clearly Suge Knight.

Get it?

*nudgenudgewinkwink*

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Oh mai

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

Timmeh?

Win!

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought. Well-played allusion, my friend!

[torasama.livejournal.com]

The "so screwed up it must have been written by a monkey" was my first reaction. Then when people said "RACIST!" I went "O.o I guess it could be..."

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I wonder if, at any point, the cartoonist paused to wonder if there were a better way to do this.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

They play dumb really well, must come natural :-)

[epikaste.livejournal.com]

There is not enough 'um.' in the world.

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Is this really any different or worse than Oliphant's drawing of Condi Rice as a parrot with big lips?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

As far as I know people are rarely comparing black people to parrots. Also quite sure that the parrot wasn't shot.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

As awful as that cartoon sounds, this one is 100x times worse.

And-- as per my original comment above-- this particular cartoonist (the go-to guy for the NY Post) is just an all-around moron/piece of shit, so I won't act shocked here.

Really anyone surprised by this doesn't read the NY Post everyday like I do. It's a rag. That's being generous.

as context, the parrot cartoon

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Re: as context, the parrot cartoon

[paintmeamovie.livejournal.com]

Wow.....

Re: as context, the parrot cartoon

[tubaboy81.livejournal.com]

I think that's actually worse than this one.

Re: as context, the parrot cartoon

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

The Condi one doesn't play on any classic racist tropes.

But it is pretty horrible in its own right -- whatever one thinks of Dr. Rice's loyalty to Bush, she was an accomplished academic and Provost of Stanford before joining the administration. She is many things, but a brain dead parrot is not one of them.

Re: as context, the parrot cartoon

[rev69.livejournal.com]

An african-american woman being republican and actually joining the Bush admin was pretty braindead.

[jessica-leah.livejournal.com]

Why do you read it every day?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

I don't buy it or read it, but good lord their covers are hilarious trainwrecks of everything wrong with the world.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

As I said, they literally hand out it for free in Manhattan.

It's a great insight into what the latest GOP talking points are.

[jessica-leah.livejournal.com]

When I used to live in Brooklyn I'd only get it for free every once in a while, which came in handy on the train. But I could never bear to actually pay for the thing.

[dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of the Metro, but The Post is pretty easy to come by.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

I see people giving the NY Post out as well as people giving out Metro.

[ihatemostthings.livejournal.com]

The Post has always been a piece of sensationalist bullshit, but this is a new low even for them.

[real-live-troll.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how a recent news story about a chimp being shot by police has anything to do with the economy, the president, etc.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

He's probably TRYING to say "the stimulus bill is so bad it might as well have been written by a chimp" but he is lacking the part of his brain that is supposed to evaluate statements, similes and metaphors for whether or not they are just insanely horrible.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

keep in mind this is the same cartoonist who enjoys to represent gay people in his cartoons as always having one leg jauntily tilted backward in a curve.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, you being stupid doesn't make anyone else a racist.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Aww you feel relevant.