A Cartoon Is Just A Cartoon?

Now they tell us. I agree with the Post, pushing back against some criticism of their recent cartoon, a cartoon is just a cartoon. But where was that sentiment from anyone in the media when a certain image of Mohammad led to riots and embassies being attacked? As I recall, it didn't exist.

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.

Comments

[Lala]

Race-baiter Sharpton picketed the Post today

http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/

[Lala]

This is a better link to Sharpton's protest - read all the way down to see Condoleeza Rice's portrayals that Sharpton didn't protest.

http://patdollard.com/2009/02/racial-narcissist-al-sharpton-calls-for-fatwa-on-ny-post-cartoonist/

[13yankeebravo]

As always some people will go out of their way to be offended to further their agenda of hate and seperatism to keep their comfortable lives paid for.

[Terry Gain]

No need for the Post to monkey around with the Messiah's image when he's destroying it all by himself.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Sharpton has not been mentioned in the News lately. He does not like to go too long without be mentioned. He just wanted to stir up some sh*t to put in all that pork being handed out. Now the pot can be stirred.

[Mark Turner]

I interepreted this cartoon as essentially meaning that a chimp could have come up with a better "stimulus" package than congress did or that the "stimulus" looked like a chimp had put it together.

However, I do understand that the chimp connotation could be quite offensive to some people, given the state of racial sensitivity in America.

It appears that this cartoon is having unexpected and unitended consequences in terms of public uproar similar to the Danish Mohammed cartoons in Europe.

[mark l.]

somehow, I don't see the european press apologizing for something like this.

now, what would be funny is sharpton going to germany or even the UK over a similar percieved insult. It would be like outsourcing our greatest race baiter.

[bc]

Sharpton is just trying to throw a spark. The dry tinder of class and race warfare is lying all around us. Very soon, the middle class is going to realize they are directly in the cross hairs of the radical left. When the middle class figures this out, the predictable response will be fear, and anger. Strictly, and thankfully because of the internet, there will then be rapid self organization and mobilization. I can't imagine the left succeeding in silencing or cowing this nascent middle class leadership by controlling the internet as well as it does the media. People are finally paying attention. There is a great awakening transpiring before our eyes. Pretty cool, huh kids?