Posted by
Catmman on Friday, February 20, 2009 9:42:44 AM
Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.
It shows two police officers standing over the chimp's body: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.
Period.
But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
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.
Refreshing, isn't it? Someone, finally, with an apology that works - appropriately aplogetic for offending those who may have been genuinely affected, and telling all the others where to go in just the right language. No fawning, groveling "we're sorry" to the race hustlers like Sharpton who I'm sure was expecting to get just that - some kind of political or financial payback.
Good for you NY Post!