New York Post Employees Unhappy, Ashamed Of Offensive Cartoon

[devilgrrl]

The mood inside the New York Post, it seems, is a mix of anger and bewilderment that the paper published a cartoon depicting the authors of the stimulus as a dead, crazed chimpanzee.

On Wednesday, an employee of the paper told the Huffington Post that the phone lines had been inundated with complaints over what was interpreted as a racially charged jab at Obama. "As they f--king should be," said the source.

Today, meanwhile, the Post's Associate Editor, Sandra Guzman, sent out an email to other reporters distancing herself from the paper's cartoon and acknowledging that she has talked to management about her disapproval.

"Thank you for your feedback," reads the email. "Please know that I had nothing to do with the Sean Delonas cartoon. I neither commissioned or approved it. I saw it in the paper yesterday with the rest of the world. And, I have raised my objections to management. --Sandra Guzman."

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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the image on the Air Force One, Wednesday and had the following to say: "I have not seen the cartoon, but I don't think it's altogether newsworthy that I don't spend a lot of time reading the New York Post."

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/19/new-york-post-employees-u_n_168267.html

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Just working for the Post doesn't shame them?

:shrug:

[spanone]

2. i would be ashamed to take a check from rupert murdoch

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. If they are ashamed they would.............

FIRE HIS ASS PUBLICLY.
Then we get to watch all the freeper heads explode.

[EFerrari]

5. What about the other people on the editorial board

that let this thing go forward?

[damntexdem]

4. Chris Matthews thinks it was uncivil to have compared Dubya to a chimp. I agree: it was unfair ...

to the chimps.

But even if one twisted the interpretation to the least-disgusting (e.g., that the chimp who wrote the stimulus package was the GOP trio of senators), the cartoon still remains disgusting. And who can really believe that it wasn't racist?

[LynnTheDem]

6. Offensive RACIST "cartoon".

Racist it surely is.

Offensive to any sentient being.