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Either the cartoonist is an idiot, or thinks the rest of us are...his message is crude and clear.

Come on Al, where is your sense of humor?

It is nice to have Barack Obama as the president, Cause it lets me know that the ignorant racists are now the minority. If people want to be racist I don't think they should live in a country with many races. This is AMERICA. We are many faces of the world in one country.

People who think this cartoon is racist are completely overreacting. BUT, they are entitled to their opinion.

The recent story about the chimpanzee is widely popular. What if the story would have been about a million rats mauling a woman? The cartoon would have referenced the rats instead & none of this would have been an issue. I bet if you'd show the cartoon to a 10 year old, they wouldn't think it was racist...unless they've been listening to Al Sharpton.

As long as people are constantly defensive and in a frame of mind where EVERYTIHNG said or referenced is racist, then this country will never move on.

The cartoon is not even remotely funny. Even a chimp getting shot doesn't amuse me. But the line about the stimulus bill does deliberately connect it to our President. The so-called cartoonist is a rascist jerk and The New York Post is one of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers so it has always been nothing but a tabloid. No news of any quality every emanates from its pages. Disgusting rag is what it is. And the cartoonist and his cartoon are disgusting too.

Proving once again that Al Sharpton has become the ambulence chaser of race relations.

I completely understand how someone who has lived through what he's lived through could find a racist under every rock, but when is he going to start tackling issues that TRULY affect Black America, not just the high-profile media-based "celebrity" cases?

"If it offends people, it probably is WRONG idiots!"

Dumbest arguement ever. The whole Democratic Party offends my intelligence, does this mean they are wrong?

Al Sharpton should be lucky to be compared to a chimp. Chimps are a lot smarter than him, more interesting and a lot cuter.

This uproar (and this comment board) prove that some people will read racial overtones into ANYTHING.

Go back under your rock Al. You have an amazing capacity of trying to stir the pot. It is interesting as to how it always draws attention to you.

I know this is shocking to you democrats but not everything is about race.

This is incredibly racist and The Post should boycotted for even running this blatant cartoon.

This is why McCain lost the Presidental Election. The Republicans and all the extreme Right need to rethink their idea of America! All you have to do is take a look at a rerun of some of McCain's campaign stops and see all the backwoods racists in the background!

Also this Stimulous Bill was suggested and backed by some of the most intellectual and smartest in the entire world! Some of which were the ADVISORS to the last President and still the Republicans want to say NO. Our country is about to go bankrupt and Republicans don't want to do anything about it!!!!

CRAZY just like that cartoon!

Freedom of speech and expression is afforded to everyone, this is why the comments on here are both for and against this cartoon. When I was a child, I act and thought like a child, now that I'm an adult, all childish things are behind me. We expect and understand children to have under developed brains, and the ability to thInk fully the consequences of their words are not present, and we expect and understand adults to have developed brains and the ability to think, so use your brain to think. If I said Adolph Hitler was the best thing to happen to Jewish people, (freedom of speech), knowing the atrocities that Hitler and his men afflicted upon the Jewish people, I as an adult who knows about this history, will not only be insensitive, but considered an out right a__hole, let alone a racist. THINK, BEFORE YOU SPEAK!

Isn't it TOO funny how the lib's can dish it, but can't take it. You losers are such hypocrits.

I'm sick of this. The only way that is racist is if Darwin's "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" is recognized as a racist publication.

Instead, the idea of Darwinism is popularly considered to be fact, and no negative racial connotation is attached to it.

You cannot have it both ways: Either recognize that Darwin's vision was racist, and that monkeys are related to people, or there is a creator who made people (of every color) unique from animals and this is NOT a racist cartoon.

If we're not related to monkeys, and people with more visible melanin in their skin simply look different than people with less melanin, then this cartoon merely suggests that you'd have to be less smart than a person to write a bill this bad.

Otherwise, we're related to monkeys, and black people are less evolutionarily developed than whites and THIS IS RACIST!

Give me a break. It's not racist, just not very funny, and people who have little sense of humor, or who are desperate to grandstand about discrimination will use ANYTHING to make news. Racism exists. It's wrong, and it's not funny. To claim that every little thing is racism is like the boy who cried wolf. Sharpton needs to cut it out.

Where was all the outrage when the fine bloggers on CNN.com demanded that Bush and Cheney be killed?

This one will most likely bring out not only Sharpton but Jackson, Rev. Wright.of..(not God bless) Shirley Chisholm, Bill clinton, Donna Brazile, Barak Obama, O.J. Simpson and God only, knows who else mighe want to join in.

The cartoon was right! Oama is out of control just likethat crazy monkey! Plus he's still wanting to spend!

Some of the facts:

– Sean Delonas has WAAAAY more publicity today than he had yesterday
– Rev. Sharpton is in the news again
– Travis, the chimp, was gunned down and a media frenzy ensued day before this cartoon was published
– "Monkey" is one word/phrase on the relatively short list of offensive names given blacks by whites
– James Byrd was lynched in this decade
– Lynching nooses, a symbol on the even shorter list of offensive racist symbols, have popped up in the offices of black university professors and on the campus of at least one grade school in the past half decade
– Barak Obama, the author of the stimulus initiative, is partly black

Racist or not (I have NO DOUBT this cartoon ABSOLUTELY WAS racist), this country of ours:

1. Has a HECKUVA long way to go to mend racial fences, and
2. SHALL, as long as I live, and my vote is with the winning side, steer WELL CLEAR of oppressing ANYONE – EVER – AGAIN – EVER!! That includes gay, intersexed, athiestic, ETC, ETC, ETC!! 300+ years of THIS CRAP (see bullets above) is BEYOND ENOUGH to convince me of this!!

Sharpton is wacky, but I must agree w. him on this. How anyone could say that this wasn't a blantantly racist cartoon is beyond me. Historically, African Americans have been compared to apes. BAD choice to print this, Post!

this is not a sharpton thing it's a human thing. This seems as though it will never stop. No one said that it represented the President getting shot.... it suggests that a chimp wrote the plan, oh by the way it was approved by a Black man. Freaking cartoonist can't draw something to help society (All of society) with this situation that we are in.

Why don't you draw the clowns that got us into this mess in the first place.... I wonder what zoo animals they will be?

Hint: Start with the editor

I am not one to play the race card, but come on.
Blame CNN.
This story should not be about Al Sharpton. It should be about the racist New York Post and it's owner Rupert Murdoch. The same owner of Fox News mind you. So I guess we should expect this.
I cannot believe people look at this and act like it is no big deal. And the fact that they act like this is not offensive makes it even worse!

Everyone had funny cartoons and some tasteless of Bush so now it's Obama's turn.....have at it boys

Why can't everyone relax and take a joke? Obviously the cartoonist was joking about the stimulus package NOT about our president being black or making fun of blacks. People who think that are either racists themselves or too sensitive to see realty.

Let's be real. African Americans have been referred to as monkeys and apes since slavery. President Obama is the leader of the free world. Is their no respect for a black man in America?

All of you trying to brush this aside as non racist should be ashamed. You know its racist. Who signed the stimulus bill? Who is dead on the sidewalk? Who is it that can't sign the next bill according to the cops holding the guns? Get Real America!! You know all to well what and who this is about.

It is most ridiculous and outrageous for the New York Post to defend the race-baiting cartoon of Sean Delonas. The sick humor falls short and is not worthy of being published. Shame on Col Allan, Sean Delonas and the New York Post for promoting racism and divisiveness in the most gross manner. It would be most fitting that the Post not share in any of the benefits of the Stimulus package.

Delonas and the Post might have a point that the cartoon referred to the Connecticut chimp story, but was all about the stimulus, if any logical connection could be made between the two. But it can't. The chimp story obviously gave them both the excuses they needed, however vague and however much of a stretch, to say what was really on their minds.

The real outrage is that garbage like this, and those who eat it up, keep these jerks employed while so many decent people are losing their jobs.

The NY Post is a RIGHT WING rag.
Us, New Yorkers don't take that newspaper seriously.
That said...I think the whole cartoon controversy is silly.
Everybody survived the New Yorker Magazine cover....so, we'll survive this one as well.
There are more important things this country need to get serious about – and this cartoon is not one of them.

Whether the cartoonist "meant:" it to be shocking or not, it is. He went over the line.

But, the New York Post is part of the Rupert Murdoch empire so there is no reason to be surprised by this.

Anyone not offended by a portrayal of our president being shot, is an i.d.i.o.t. Shame on you. Better hope you are not victims of racism some day–you'll then wish people were not so desensitized about it.

Is he also going to condemn the police who shot the chimpanzee in Connecticut after it mauled a woman? Sounds like profiling to me...

"We all know in the past that racist people referred to blacks as monkeys or chimps"

No we don't all know, I did not think that when I saw the picture, I always thought it was because a monkey (anyone who can hold a pen) could have come up with that stimulus bill. I guess if you are raciest you saw that cartoon as raciest... If you look for other meanings in things everything can be what you want to see it as..

I think Bush looked like a money and I saw a TON of cartoons of Bush as a monkey so whats the problem here????

Mr. Sharpton is a very useless person, second to Jesse Jackson.

Not having seen the cartoon, I can't comment on it directly, but it does not sound as though it should be deemed racially offensive. For starters, Nancy Pelosi wrote the bill (does that mean it's a sexist cartoon instead). Furthermore, saying that a monkey could have written it merely indicates that it was incredibly bad legislation that no intelligent person could have dreamed up. What this does prove, however, is that the victim mentality that is pervasive amongst ultra liberals (of all races) is alive and well. For all the progress America has made on race relations in recent years (and our situation is better than almost any other nation on Earth), we'll never get over the hump as long as radicals see racism everywhere they look. This reminds me of the city council member in Houston, I believe, who decried the use of the term "black hole" as racist. Even after his colleagues explained that it was a celestial term, he still demanded an apology. Sadly, the comments on this post prove that that kind of ignorance is much more prevalent than I previously thought.

I am more afraid of these racist Americans than I am of Al Qaeda!

I stopped listening to Sharpton after the Tawana Bradley debacle.
Could someone tell me just what School of Divinity he graduated from? What church he preaches at? What congregation he leads?
MLK Jr was a Reverend. I haven't seen any evidence of that in Sharpton or Jackson.

Why doesnt the NY Post and everyone that does not see a problem with this cartoon EXPLAIN in FULL DETAIL what the heck does a chimp that got shot for mauling a women in CT have anything to do with the stimulus. Someone please explain because it's quite obvious that people will see this as racist since blacks have been referred to as monkeys/chimps, so explain to a lot of people what does a chimp have to do with the stimulus.

THE ONLY MONKEYS AROUND HERE ARE THE ONES WHO REFUSE TO EVOLVE... ITS CALLED PROGRESS AND THIS CARTOONIST IS DECADES TOO LATE

This guy is freakin hilarious.....It will never end. Blacks have just as many opportunities (if not more) than whites.....but they just keep on keeping on.......GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clearly Al and Eric Holder have been having a "dialogue" about race. This kind of nonsense only makes it harder for people to take the plight of black America seriously. Al Sharpton, and apparently Eric Holder, can find the injustice, the "victim" almost anywhere.

Does Al really think that this complaint, designed to draw attention to himself, not Obama, is what the stimulus is about? The President of the United States announces the biggest commitment to take care of our own since the Great Depression, and Al Sharpton offers this??

Al, face it. You are OUT OF STYLE. It had to happen some time. Try to be gracious about it instead of manufacturing injustices to stay on someone's payroll.

I think the photo is racist again blacks and disrespectful of the poor woman that is fighting for her life in a hospital. It is despicable.

@ You know the Republican party is toxic when ... Palin bails on NRCC & CPAC – An elephant !? This stimulus law was purely and unadulterated product of a donkey!!! Chill folks, only the Democrat party symbol

The only stupid and idiot people are the ones who call others such names.

This 'cartoon' was anything but funny. It's a direct racial slam to Our President. The person or persons who made that cartoon should be fired and never allowed to work in "journalism" again. Absolutely despicable. And what's wrong with the Post to have even published it. It's pretty obvious now.

54 year old white female in Oregon

The cartoon and the Post are a disgrace and an affront to all Americans. This is a racist cartoon and could be seen as an inducement to murder the President also. Rev. Sharpton has cried wolf too many times to be trusted at first yell but to ignore him without checking his claim is not prudent either. "Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you".

Blacks know racism when they see it because we've lived it, experienced it, along with many of our black friends and family members. Its easy for non-blacks to be dismissive or critical of Sharpton because many of them deal with blacks at arms length and are clueless to our plight and countless bouts with racist behavior.

To all of those people who think it's wrong to use animals to represent Obama, how many of you found it funny when cartoonist made George W. a chimpanzee? (granted, I disliked Bush grealt and found the comparison to be both accurate and hilarious) It's my belief that many people oftentimes will see racism where they want to see racism. Al Sharpton doesn't deserve the respect that many people give him. All his constant cries of racism do is perpetuate the notion that black people should feel like the system is against them. I understand that there are genuine cases of racism in this country, and that is wrong on every level. However, taking every little event that involves a black person in any way and using it to further your own agenda (and trust me, his agenda has little to do with the betterment of black people, other than himself of course) is doing more harm than good. Instead of increasing the racial divide by making everything revolve around it, mayne he should try to inspire and lead his followers in a productive way. Martin Luther King Jr. did it, why can't Al Sharpton?

As usual Sharpton has no idea what he is talking about or doesn't care as long as he gets some press coverage.

1st of all President Obama did not write the stimulus bill – Congress did. So it would be Congess that is the ape. Of course Congress is comprised of all races so it would be silly to claim it is an insult only to Black members of Congress. If a name was put on the ape then it would indeed be an insult, but by Sharpton's standards it would only be an insult if it was the name of a Black person.

Frankly I am tried of the same old race games from Sharpton. Americans voted for a Black president – time for Sharpton to stop playing the race game and move on to something else.

If Conyers and Leahy are so dead set against torture, they should subpoena Sharpton next, because that is some seriously tortured logic.

I suppose you could just turn it around and say the cartoon mocks the stereotypical racism of the police in that they shot a chimpanzee tha attacked someone and made the irrational leap to equating it with Obama. Either way, it's completely tactless and tasteless and they should apologize.

Whether the cartoonist "meant:" it to be shocking or not, it is. He went over the line.

But, the New York Post is part of the Rupert Murdoch empire so there is no reason to be surprised.

How anyone can defend the racist tone of that cartoon is beyond words. I guess that is what AG Eric Holder meant when he said we were a nation of cowards when it comes to race. To those who are hear to defend tha cartoonist I would hope you would atleast stop for a moment and try to understand the anger from a black man's point of view. I am no fan of Rev. Sharpton but I do think he is right on this issue. Of course some of you may beg to differ. It just goes to show that the way something is viewed depends on the viewer.

How anyone can offend the racist tone of that cartoon is beyond words. I guess that is what AG Eric Holder meant when he said we were a nation of cowards when it comes to race. To those who are hear to defend tha cartoonist I would hope you would atleast stop for a moment and try to understand the anger from a black man's point of view. I am no fan of Rev. Sharpton but I do think he is right on this issue. Of course some of you may beg to differ. It just goes to show that the way something is viewed depends on the viewer.

It is certainly offensive,and the paper and the cartoonist need to take into consideration of how African Americans, or any other group,
will interpret what they themeselves are trying to get across to the
public.

I know Al Sharpton always cries foul regarding race issues and so he makes a lot of people nervous so they dislike him. But come on now! How can any reasonable person not think that this cartoon is ridiculous to say the least! What's the correlation between a chimpanzee shot while mauling a woman and the Economic stimulus bill?! If the Republicans had managed to kill the bill, then may be there would some connection, especially for people who think the stimulus bill is a bad idea. At best, this cartoonist has to be the laziest cartoonist ever.

Lee – I am offended by you comment, that makes your comment wrong by your own logic. This is why we DO NOT have a right NOT to be offended. But we do have a right to freedom of the press and speech. Even though I think the cartoon could be seen as wrong (I don't know, like most of us in blog land, I have not seen the cartoon).

There is no question about the meaning of the cartoon, unless you want to argue that the editor of the NY post lacks in intelligence, which is not likely to be the case – he wouldn't hold on to his job. It is racist and as disturbing as Sarah Palin lettting the crowd yell out "Kill him" toward Barack Obama during the presidential campaign. Everyone knows black people have been referred to as monkeys, chimpanzees and many other derogative calling. I hope you will stop it.

Debby

Wow I was hoping you had moved to that other world you tend to live in. I saw a lot of your evil blogs during the campaing and you can't call anybody a wacko.

This is racist end of story.

Instead of being racist think of this:

maybe the author doesn't like the stimulus (spending on ridiculous non-stimulating projects) bill and is referring to congress as a bunch of monkeys. lol Considering the bill is kinda ridiculous, this is quite funny.

Or be racist and perceive that he is calling Obama a monkey.

I agree its a disgrace, I would not put the chimpanzee down like that. He (the chimpanzee ) would have had a much smarter plan than we got from Obama and the Democrats.

Where was Sharpton and all the rest when Bush was being made fun of? At some point we need to stop apologizing for every thing that Sharpton and Jackson make a big deal about. They make race an issue about everything. When we stop feeding in we can move ahead. They are experts on setting us back everytime we (the US people) move forward. No Apologies!!!!!!

The cartoon is blatant disrespect and racist, plan and simple.

The cartoon is racist, offensive, and condones violence against the President. I believe that is a crime.

Hooray Mathew in Houston – There are believers of Dr. King's colorblind society out there!!! Keep it up Matt (up north were kinda pink this time of year):)

It is without question a racist cartoon, whether consciously or subconsciously. The editor from the Post should have known better, should have recognized. But perhaps that editor saw nothing wrong with "Barack The Magic Negro" either.

Ok, I'm sure the Post's intentions were not racist ... but seriously, how dumb are you to run this? The Post deserves the criticism just for being stupid enough to run a cartoon like this that would no doubt get a big backlash.

Sharpton, YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY!!!! We do not want someone that gets it wrong 80% of the time when it comes to "picking your battles" representing us!

The NYPD are notorious for shooting unarmed men (black&latino). Obama should hesitate before he visits the Big Appel. I agree with Sharpton!

OMG... wrong blog! I meant to post a comment about Palin.

Aerial Gunning of Wolves for Revenue (not control)...

Suing to de-list the Polar Bear as threatened so she can drill baby drill...

Abuse of power ...

Doesn't pay her taxes....

What next?

Obama/Biden 2012

Who is this idiot Sharpton anyway. Just where is this Church he supposedly preaches at. He's a blood sucking leach that only look for issues that benefit him and to keep his donations coming in.

Post et al:

Your POTUS is a black man and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you see no issue with this cartoon in terms of its racist base, then you have issue. Al Shrapton & his relevance is beside the point.

f you are blind to racism, you must & have to be a racist & cannot see the forest for the tree. Wake up!

Sharpton is a cartoon. his interest is sharpton for oponitunist sharpton and he is irelevent to anything sensable black or white.
If a stumble bum across the street sitting in his or her own puke makes a remark any rational person would dismiss it. If a person in a suit or dress makes the same remark he or she is a shadow of the stumble bumb. Dismiss shch folk and get on with important matters. Free speech allowes (and it should) crack pots to speak nonsence. How about this, the KKK has a parade on 125 St., yes that should be allowed. Everyone from neighboor hoods around NY show up, when they march down the street everyone turnes their back and says nothing. How about that as a way to show them and the world that what they stand for is valueless. For certin the police take pictures of all the marchers weather the ACLU un wiped liberals like it or not. Their are good laws to insuer that folks can speak but not act stupid.

yall hate it but sharpton is right.

"I'm a leftie – but I disagree with Sharpton totally. I didn't see any racism here. The chimp story was the most "searched" internet story yesterday. I disagree with the premise of the cartoon. I support the stimulus plan, and I trust Obama & his economic advisors to come up with a good plan. I'm glad Democrats finally can drive this bus, I'm sick of Republican ideas."

JPM, Your being a leftie doesn't explain your bigottery. In this case Sharpton is standing up to those of you who pretend you are not racist while harboring racism.

Mr. Sharpton and the like need to quit the cry baby antics! Our country our generation is past all the racist junk. It is a comic-get over it. He would have found issue if it had been a gold fish! Mr. Sharton, please grow up and shut up!

Although we are entitled to freedom of speech, the use of the monkey with two police offices standing over the dead monkey is an outright insult. We are currently in an economic crisis brought on by the prior President Bush and the Republican Party that did nothing for the economy but ensured the rich became richer.

President Obama did not write the stimulus bill, he signed it. As Eric Holder so elogently stated "America a nationof cowards on race". So, when the media or Republicans have a chance to make a racial remark they do so.

As one writer state "you want hear anything from Michael Steele, the new RNC Chairman. He's already stated the stimulas package will not work. Maybe not for you Mr. Steele, but there are thousand of people losing their jobs daily and it's more than what the Republicans have to offer. As a matter of fact, the Republicans who did not vote for the stimulas package, I suggest you refuse the money for your state.

Why would NY Post print anything so ignorant? UNREAL! It never cease to amaze me about journalism and what we read in the paper. Given the sensitvity of the way African Americans were treated horribly in this country and were considered as nothing more than apes and were called apes, beaten by cops in the south and hung from trees like animals.

To: The New York post, this is insulting to a race of people who have been treated totally unfairly in this country. New York just showed they are racist and bigots. I will never buy your paper again.

Boycott the Post!!!! Then see how funny it is when they start loosing money.

Obama didn't even write the stimulus bill! It was written by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid! Al Sharpton is an IDIOT!!

ONE WORD
NOTHING BU RACIST.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MURDOCH?

I guess we were due for some Al Sharpton bickering and whining since he pretty much kept quiet during the Obama campaigning. I guess he didn't want to draw the ire of white America and hurt Obama's chances.......

A New York Post cartoon Wednesday drew fire from civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who says the image invokes a history of racism to suggest an ape wrote President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package. ++++++++ No Al – A group of people (Dems) with the combined intelligence of an ape wrote the stimulus plan!

I saw the cartoon and it is sick. There is no defending it. The line was crossed unnecessarily.

And they say race doesn't matter. If you believe this you are a dog I will throw a shoe at you .

@Matthew – lol, your skin is khaki...That was cute.

Mr. Sharpton is right comparing apes to Rep. Pelosi is an insult to apes everywhere!!!

Not cool, Post. Not cool.

"Think" before you print.

Get over yourself Sharpton. Seriously.

Since It's not about race...Perhaps it would be more appropriate to have a drug over-dosed PIG strung hung over his microphone – with the caption "I failed this time Mr. President"

Everyone kinows when there is a policeman shooting anything that resembles an african american or a monkey is a racism statement.

Therefore, the artist and the Post can say whatever but we know exactly what it means. I am so sick of the racist people of every walk of life.

Sometimes I feel this is the saddest country to live in.

Maybe everyone stops being so sensitive.

I thought the New York Post was a pretty liberal paper.

I thought the New York Post always supports Obama.

Maybe everyone should stop reading the New York Post.

Maybe Sharpton can get the paper shut down.

Okay Celeste.....Tell 'em girl....

Why not choose a pig to represent the pork in the stimulous, instead of a monkey?

Our President has gone from being a Muslim, to an Arab, a terroist, a magic Negro and now a monkey. Thanks Sean Hannity Delonas for putting Country First!

The "Chimp Story" has absolutely nothing to do with the stimulus bill. Its obvious that the Cartoonist used the story as an opportunity to draw an inference to Obama and money or apes as racist have often done in the past. This was clearly an unsuccessful attempt to cloak his racist views behind "humor". I've noticed that lately "humor" is the being used as the new means to convey racist views.

I believe CCN and the cartoonist are bigots. The cartoonist should do a makeover with the picture of the biggest pig if he and CNN believes there are no racial undertones to the cartoon.
Shame on all of you that defend continue racial undertones with whatever point you are trying to make with some things originated/done by a black person.

of all the things going wrong in the world today, THIS is what he complains about? Get over it already. Not everything is a negative comment about blacks.

Here comes another controversial issue. Whether there were racial implications in the cartoon is an individual opinion. What most of us should agree on is the lack of sensitivity racial or otherwise when we deal with a diverse group of individuals. Why stir the hornets nest to begin with? There is always someone who will interpret things different and the racial history in America makes everything so complicated. In short let us be sensitive.

The cartoon says WRITE the next stimulus bill, this stimulus bills was wrote by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Obama just signs it, I think that Al Sharpton is just worried that if racism is on the way out so is he.

Sean D, you had better rent aroom in the sky!!!!!

Oh my goodness, somebody has made fun of Obama! This is a tragedy! What are we going to do?!?! lol

Grow up. I know it is hard for liberals to take jokes, and they tend to throw the race card around when their feelings are hurt, but guess what, this joke is no different than any joke thrown at Bush during the last eight years.

The biggest reason there is still racism in the country is because liberals keep bringing attention to race. Keep race out of this. It was a joke. If you don't like it, then turn the page. Don't try to make it a race issue.

We have always been portrayed as monkeys, it's nothing new. Thanks Al for speaking out against it, and thats all we can do... If someone said something negative or wrote something negative about the Jews, you would loose your job... The media have not spoken good about The President before the election and now after the election. I believe the Media runs the country until we the people put a end to it. By the way would you consider the cartoon a Terrorist Threats?

Those of you who see nothing wrong with the cartoon, think again. You probably wouldn't see anything wrong with a lynching either. If it offends people, it probably is WRONG idiots!

JIm in PA;
No matter who wrote the dm bill President Obama signed the bill so you are labeling him as the monkey not Pelosi. People think that others can't read between the lines but if you are a newspaper editor or cartoonist your work should be critic before you run it, as to not cause harsh pain to others. I myself think the man who publish the cartoon should take a look at his surrounding and see if there is any resembance on his part as well. No matter what and how you may try to smear or tear down the President, he is an Africian American and in change. The cartoonist and his boss should get a lot of heat from this article but because they are of color nothing will be said or done. No tell me racism is not there.

Now hold on there TCM. First I must say it is an honor to be insulted by someone who is a pure and American and clean as you. But to bring up Tawana B is below your whiteness. After all Al was just standing up for someone who came to him. And you know those white cops are known for their klan activity. Last, did you know there are more white folks on death row who actually did it then there are blacks in Meza AZ? That is a stat!

I've already canceled my subscription to the NY Post and so have my family, friends and many co-workers. There's no need to "argue" over the photo. Anyone with a BRAIN can read and see the blatant racial inference being made. If the word "stimulus" wasn't used in the cartoon caption, there would BE NO connection to President Obama.

Delonas KNEW exactly what the word 'stimulus" would infer in the monkey. Let's stop mincing words here, you'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know who Delonas was referring to in his cartoon. We can "sugar coated ALL we want, we can sit here and BLAME Rev. Al Sharpton for stating the obvious.

The FACT remains, the word "stimulus" refers to President Obama and by using the monkey in such a deplorable manner, is just despicable beyond words.

I hope the NY Post is willing to take a BIG HIT at the expense of Delonas. MONEY TALKS and BS walks. So the more people cancel their subscription, the CLEARER the message becomes to the NY Post.

End of Story.

Give 'em hell, Al...they deserve it!!!

if the shoe fits

If the monkey is referring to Nancy] Pelosi I don't get it. Sound pretty racism to me

Of all the battles you could choose to fight, this is the one you think will best solve racial divides? People who think this man's primary agenda is addressing true cases of racism in America are clearly mistaken. He is a politician, and an opportunist, and I believe people are quite frankly tired of his over-hyped outrage on anything with a possibility of veiled racism.

Well at least we're civilized enough not to be seeking the blood and cutting off the heads of the cartoonist and editors like some Peace Loving Religious group whom I won't mention here.

anyone who just happens to think that this ad was innocent or somehow taken out of context is in a serious state of denial. sure every president is open to criticism fair or unfair, but this is overboard. surely the n y post should do a better job of censorship. there is nothing tasteful about this. dixie chicks make a comment about thier oppostion to the war and their careers are in serious jeopardy. what will come of this idiot of a cartoonist. can't his actions be deemed as non-patriotic or even terroristic. it is all depending on who is writing the story.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE SHARPTON SHUT UP AND GET A LIFE...

Sharpton pay your taxes.
It is time for you to get a real job and stop leaching off people.
We are tired of seeing your face. All you want to do is stir things up and then prentend to fix it.
You are prejudiced against the white people and everytime you speak it shows.

I am down right offended by the comment made and it clearly is a racist remark. If no one sees that remark as racist then something is clearly wrong. That writer needs to be fired. He clearly was referring to President Obama! Come on racist people do you honestly think God made you and only you in this whole wide world. You are not the only race of people on this whole wide earth! Wake up and read your bibles more and pray for forgiveness!

To Mike in Syracuse NY iam not a Sharpton fan myself but only a racist fool would think that this is not racist .

Jane, yes. And the same goes for Reverend Sharpton. He has the right to voice his objection.

What was the point of the cartoon in correlating the killing of the chimpanzee to the stimulus bill? For one thing, it is not funny. Be honest.

Were they trying to convey that the next chimp that puts a stimulus plan through will get shot down? I don't mean shot down in the literal sense. But come on, it was ignorant. When you smoke out people who talk like that they always cry it isn't racist. Then what was it? Surely, no one is going to think that was hilarious repartee from the newspaper. He WAS trying to make some correlation to race, but the guy is too chicken to admit it.

Monkey see, Monkey do...

I don't think the insult is in regards to the President being shot. Depicting the President as a monkey casts a much more negative stereotype that has existed for many years. Mr. Delonas can play ignorant if if he chooses, but he knew exactly what his intent was.

A perfect example of why Eric Holder said we need to have an honest discussion about race.

so that they could continue to suck the blood out of the working poor?

that's the bEst you can do, obama?

I DON'T THINK SO!

you really think we the people are dumber than door knobs!

Well, I hate to play devils advocate but the term "Those monkeys in Washington!" comes to mind. and when I was growing up that meant congress. There were no African Americans in congress when i was growing up so I don't Hear the race baiting. Having said that, it's obvious that the post wants it both ways. Perhaps they get off on the thought of it offending some one.

sharpton is right.

Both the coarttonist and the editor-in-chief appear to be insensitive idiots. Without proper explanation of what they actually meant by it, it may look like a racist comment.

I can't believe people are willing to sugar-coat the awful insinuations in this cartoon. Al Sharpton has never been an idiot, and he is not jumping the gun. Everyone knows that President Obama is the spearhead behind the economic stimulus bill and the cartoon is targeted toward an individual, not a generalization like "Washington". Whatever the artist "meant", the Post knew good and well that this portrayal would be perceived in a negative and insulting way. Freedom of the press protects political dissention, not racial hatred.

Dear Sean Delnos, please keep your racially charged cartoon pardody of my and your president of the United States to yourself. Therefore, your should be ashame of yourself for posting this sort of racist cartoon in the New York Post. We are do not need to see this kind of racism at a time when some many people are hurting. For just a minute try to imagine what it would feel like to walk in an African American person shoes when this sort of rascism is printed in the media. I am a Black American and truly bother by this sort of media type of racism being put out there by others like you who think what you are doing is funny and okay. Well, it is not funny it is hurtful so you should stop doing this crap. There is a lot of positive information that you can write or print about instead of this negative and devicise information. Oh, I guess the positive information does not sale well? Nothing is funny about racism!

Gosh when will people learn that even though we have the right to free speech, just because you can express or say something does not mean it should be said.
Ask any politician!

NEW FREE SPEECH laws... brought to you by Rev Wright and Al Sharpton!

No longer can the President be characatured, mocked, or satired. If you hint or suggest President Obama is a bafoon (heaven forbid "acting like a baboon"!) – you will immediately be called a racist and sent to a re-education camp.

- wow – this is eerily similar to the revolution in China. I guess Chairman Obama should be his new title?

Shut up ALL please

I will never understand how some whites can call people who have spent a great part of their lives fighting for Civil Rights/Human Rights a racist. Now I'm not saying Al or even Mr. J Jackson for that mater is MLK..., however lets us remember racist whites called the late Dr. King a racist to...

From some of the comments that I read, I can see that these are some insensitive boobs. Al Sharpton has done nothing to you racists but called you out. That man is a racist and all of you who are calling Rev. Al Sharpton names are calling wrong right and right wrong. That moronic cartoonist is entitled to his opinion, but leave the stimulus out of it. He will benefit from the plan as well.

i agree with you al, THIS IS A RACIST CARTOON.

This just reminds me of CNN this morning listening to Rob Marciano call the White House " The Big House" and Heidi Collins laughing on the other side of the set. The big house is the call name for the prisons and I call on these two idiots to quit if they cannot conduct themselves in a civil way on television. These people should take a page out of the books of Larry King ,Kara Phillips and Candy Crowley whom I enjoy listening to.

Oh brother, here come the wacko's and its not even a full moon. Maybe next we will here from Sharpton's sidekick Holder again.

I love the way the right wingnuts commenting here are focusing on Sharpton. I'm no fan of Sharpton, either but the problem lies not with him but the portrayal of Obama as a monkey. The imbecile who drew the cartoon (it would be an insult to cartoonists to call him a cartoonist) even admitted the monkey was representing Obama by his own statement of feigned innocence saying he wasn't saying Obama should be shot.

You right wingnuts just do not get it. This was a blatantly racist cartoon. Period. It was inappropriate and should never have been published. The cartoonist has a right to draw it, the paper has a right to publish it but neither one has a right to be free of the criticism they deserve for their actions.

BTW, I'm 'white' (well, actually I think my skin is more khaki . . .)

This is wrong, it is ignorant, and any person with half a brain or conscious sees it that way.

They claim it's about the stimulus and current situation; fine, maybe that was the intent; however, AS MUCH AS I HATE TO SAY THIS BUT, that is not the perception for a broad American audience.

Let's go back not that long ago, you mean like the police officer who is currently on trial for shooting an unarmed African-American young adult in the back in front of several witnesses (including cameras) at a train station in California (I believe)?

Or how about the sad reality that African-American's were referred to being apes as a derogatory insult?

And the caption states, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill"?

And the man who led the current one is our President who, hmmm, just happens to be a half African-American man?

But they don't see fault in this....This is ignorance to the tenth degree. This is completely shameful!

This is racist. I don't care what all these stupid blogger's on here say. I'm african american and there is no way this paper can try to justify this insensative white racist piece of crap.

You people think you can do and say anything and nobody is going to notice? hell no. You print all the nasty racist junk you want. Barack Obama is President and all the racist junk you print won't change that. LOL

The NY Post is calling President Obama a violent monkey/chimpanzee that whould be gunned down. That is what I got from the cartoon.

People of good will should boycott them, and the advertisers who support them. They cannot survive without advertising dollars.

Not a fan of Al Sharton, but he was right to call this guy out. I see alot of you blaming Sharton for doing so., this only make you apart of the problem. I found this sickening at best, and horriably ignorant. I think the cartoonist should be compared to a chimp, he seems to mimic them by throwing his **** all over the place.

Al these people will forever be Ignorant, stop giving them so much attention.

Sharpton...how come the black community does not even support you anymore?

Ther goes Al flying off the handle, when are we going to hear from the other crackpot he sides with on meaningless accusations?

Poor Al Sharpton. He is a prime example why bigotry will never go away in this country. He sees it around every corner and under every rock. What would Mr.Sharpton do for a living if we all lived in harmony?The more you bring it in to light, the stronger it burns in peoples minds.
He does not help the cause to eliminate bigotry. It only seems self-serving to Mr. Sharpton.

I'm a white woman of an age to clearly remember when this kind of cartoon depiction of black people was acceptable in many parts of the country. Although Sharpton is generally a publicity seeking idiot, in this case, he's right. I saw this cartoon before Sharpton ever said a word, and it was perfectly clear what the Post's intent was.

Despicable.

SHARPTON

2 words.

Tawana Bradley

Yep you have great Credibility. That is no credibility.

Liar Liar Liar.

You were sure ready to hang the Duke Lacrosse team as well...

Just one question for everyone... What church is Sharpton a reverend of? I do not see any other priest, pastor, father, reverend, clergy, rabbi, or anyone else in theology making any fuss over racism. Yet that seems to be all that the "Reverend Al Sharpton" talks about. I would like for once to hear him talk about religion.

Is everyone that stupid? The stimulus bill is so lame, it seems that it was written by an ape. Where does racism come into play here? Sharpton is looking for publicity (as usual) and the rest of you are a bit too thin skinned. Not everything is about you! Get over it.

I blame the Washington Post editors for deciding to print this when it obviously could spark racial backlash. Either way you look at it, it's a messed up joke. Police shooting a monkey like they did the other day when the monkey tore a ladies face off, how's that funny? And then to say that whoever wrote the stimulus package is a monkey, even less funny. All the news networks and newspapers have been calling it Obama's stimulus package and the majority of it is his ideas, so how is it not a clear shot at Obama? And Al Sharpton didn't even say it was racism for sure, he just said the Washington Post should have been smarter and clarified the picture, which is absolutely true!!

Sharpton is a racist in every sense of the word

AND THEY WANT YOU TO BE PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY?

This "monkey" thing is just another way for black folks to play the race card just ot play the race card even if it's not in anyy way deserving.
There you go AG Holder, I'm talking straight about this race BS...
Lighten up – it's joke about a monkey! Jeezus...

Well since we all know Nancy Pelosi wrote the bill, Nancy is the monkey.

To suggest that this cartoon was in no way tryiing to reflect a negative sentiment on Obama is ludricus. That is exactly what that moron and that paper was trying to do. They hate this man and what he has been able to overcome as a black man in this country to be the the face of what these racist punks think is their country. How can anybody with its racist history of comparing African Americans to apes not think that cartoon was not offensive. They knew exactly what they were doing. Their problem is that they're so blind by their hatred of any black that has the gall to aspire to something greater than them that they go to what they know best, racial sterotypes. It took a lot of diversity to make Obama win. The morons at the New Your Postwould shrink if they knew how many of their own will find this cartoon offensive. People should stop reading this trash and advertisers should advertise elsewhere. If they don't then we should stop buying their products.

Nixon's enemies were "radicals"
Reagan's enemies were "communists"
Bush's enemies were "axis of evil" / "terrorists"
Obama's enemies are "racists"

This is not a drill. We need the freedom of the press. Obama is hopefully spending my hard earned taxes wisely, and is ordering peoples death in missle strikes and sending us to war. We need to keep him on track and honest.

Remember hanging Palin in effegy in Calif. was protected as "art". And Obama was silent. Maybe what goes around, comes around.

The cartoonist and the editor may not think or meant it to be racist but it is. The cartoonist is FRIGGIN ridiculous to not see that. It just shows that he, aside from work, does not hang around black people on a regular bases or in social situations consistently. If he did or his editor did socialize with black people regularly, they never would have run the cartoon and not known it was offensive. It clearly is in very poor taste and I will not be a customer of the New York Post any longer. I am Canceling my subscription Right Now!!!

Did the cartoon character look like sharpton?

Sorry, but that cartoon was beyond ignorant. American's are better then that. Regardless of the track record, we are better then that and must make it more evident. It's freedom of speech, not freedom of ignorance.

Sharpton is simply trying to get his name out there. The world may stop spinning if his name is not in the paper at least once a week. I am sick of this man who is a racist himself. He hates white people and I for one do not tolerate racism from any color, sex, or creed. Sharpton needs racism because that is where his money comes from. Without racism there is no need for Sharpton so he must keep racism in the spotlight.

GET A LIFE SHARPTON, NO ONES CARES ABOUT YOU OR YO0UR VOICE

i thought the cartoon depicted Bush ..he does have a mind like a chimp and looks like one

Delonas should be the monkey. I think that all who had a part to play in the publishing of the article should be considered as monkeys and morons.

I think the cartoonist and editor both need to take their heads out of the sand on this one! We all know that African Americans have often been ridiculed by racists as being ape like ...thus for these NY Post folks to suggest it isnt racist is b.s.!! Even if not intended to be so ,they should have known folks would draw those inferences.. It is very offensive!!!

Dear Sean Delnos, please spare your racially charged cartoon pardody of my and your president of the United States to yourself. Therefore, your should be ashame of yourself for posting this sort of racist cartoon in the New York Post. We are do not need to see this kind of racism at a time when some many people are hurting. For just a minute try to imagine what it would feel like to walk in an African American person shoes when this sort of rascism is printed in the media. I am a Black American and truly bother by this sort of media type of racism being put out there by others like you who think what you are doing is funny okay. Well, it is not funny is is hurtful so you so stop doing this crap.

Let's get real: Unless we find some evidence that there was some racist intent behind the choice of imagery, we really can't say it was anything more than a serious serious error on the part of the cartoonist and the editors in not recognizing how the imagery could be interpreted (or in not caring either way). They should probably apologize, but once they do, that should really be the end of it.

It seems Dellonas has his head up his butt. Howard Cosell got bintn trouble for the same problem. When ar you people going to learn? Do you think we are stupid?

Of course, the New York Post is going to poke fun at Obama! A black man has to replace a white man as president and clean up after him after the white man has made such gargantuan messes such that it would be a monumental action to turn around such messes and to do so will markedly make the black man far more advanced than the white man. Now, given the aspect of EVOLUTION which the Post might not like to agree with, the white man's capabilities come under close scrutiny. Even with the aspect of CREATIONISM, it is more difficult for the Post to realize that God produced such a white man to induce such actions that calls into question God's role in doing so. As a result, the Post must contend with ridiculous cartoons because both EVOLUTIONARY as well as from a CREATIONIST point of view, there is no palpable leg to stand on but this nonsense!

I don't care what the editor says this is racist. how in the hell can he say it isn't , it's insentative and those idiots over at the new york post know it. it's people like this that try to hide there prejudice by doing crap like this, that's exactly what this is crap. The ignorance of the media and new paper is worse everyday.

oil engineer

You are an IDIOT.

Perhaps Mr Sharpton would prefer a self portrait cartoon depicting wagging finger and tongue.

Take a deep breath Al and understand that Shaq's appearance in white face mask and all white attire did not require an out cry of racism and poor taste nor should you reach for extremes trying to tie words and pictures to racism and poor taste when it just ain't so!

I'm sure that the developers of the presidents stimulus program were not all black but the sure as hell were a bunch of monkeys.

Well, on the other hand, how many times has GWB been compared to Curious George?

As a 33 year old Black Male, my initial reaction, "that's so racist", lasted a millisecond. I then remembered the pet chimp that was killed yesterday and realized the artist was trying to say THAT chimp wrote the stimulus bill. Everyone needs to understand the sensitivity surrounding racism in America, given it's history. We all need to let it go... on both sides of the fence. We all have a responsibility to social awareness. Some need to be more conscience of the wounds that, for some, may still in the healing process. Some need to embrace the time we are in... one that elected, overwhelmingly, our nation's first African-American President, and find comfort in knowing that there are now LESS people with the old racist attitude than there are those that put the future of our beloved country into the hands of an African-American. The tides have turned and the bandages protecting our wounds can now be removed.

I am offended. Outraged. And not surprised that Delonis took a page right out of Bill O'Reilly's book to defend this.

Racism, sexism.....it has no place in our Society.

Doing/saying/publishing something offensive.....and then claiming that it wasn't and "how dare you misjudge this" is really old. It doesn't work.

We all know its intent.

It is perfectly acceptable to portray Bush as a monkey, but to do Obama in-kind, it runs the risk of agitating Al Sharpton's hemmoroids?

James, Phoenix AZ February 18th, 2009 2:18 pm ET

Hey, Al, we're still waiting for your apology to the Duke University lacrosse team. How about it?
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Your apology is in the same place where millions of black women have been raped by their slavemasters or just white men in general, creating an entire race within a race of mulattoes. I live in South Louisiana, so I know this to be true. Just because one black woman falsely accused some white boys of rape doesn't mean it hasn't happened a gazillion times, and I have yet to hear an apology.

Shut Up AL.

Thank you, Al....I was hoping you would step up to the plate on this one.
That cartoon is very dangerous – it shows the ape being shot.
What has happened to Americans and their sense of dignity?
IMO the past 8 years of hate and gloom and doom at the hands of the republicans have ruined our country and the sense of respect that people once had. People are flocking to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for their daily dose of hate, and it's spilling into newspapers and columns all over the country.
The media idiots are spewing hate and no one is calling them on it.
Where is CNN and why aren't they outraged over this political cartoon and the media that represents it???

Sharpton, I am a black educated woman asking you to please GO AWAY!!! Why does everything have to be about race? It's not.

To call Sharpton an idiot is to insult idiots everywhere.

If Sharton were white he wouldn't get the time of day from CNN.

I guess I don't see how this cartoon can NOT be interpreted as linking the chimpanzee to Obama. Otherwise, it just doesn't make any sense....there is no other "hook" linking the crazy-CT-chimpanzee to the stimulus bill. Yeah, I get that the message might not be overtly intended to be "racist," but on the other hand, anyone who does not know that historically the caricature of "black man as a monkey" is a common racist theme is a complete idiot who lacks the perspective and education to be a political satirist for a major newspaper.

The Post certainly has the right of free speech, but we also have the right to comment on what they're saying, and in this case, I am forced to conclude that the cartoon is either a) overtly racist or b) incredibly stupid–or c) both.

I agree with Rev.Sharpton! Racists codewords have no place in CNN media or any media for that matter!!!! CNN should demand Delonas apologize for his ignorance!!

IF THIS WAS ABOUT THE STIMULOUS PLAN FULL OF PORK, THEN
WHY DIDNT'T IT SHOW THE OFFICERS SHOOTING A PIG?

MCCAIN/PALIN SUPPORTER WAS SHOWN BRINGING A STUFFED MONKEY ANIMAL TO A RALLY AND TRIED TO HIDE IT WHEN A REPORTER SPOTTED HIM, BUT SINCE THE SUPPORTER WASN'T WEARING A WHITE HOOD, IT WAS ALL IN FUN.

STEREOTYPING IS THE NEW RACISM. I BET THEY WON'T SPOOF A WHITE MAN WITH A SWASTIKA, IN FRONT OF AN OVEN AND CALL IT HUMOUR.

America has many BACK-DOOR rascists. It many be humerous, but the reality is real. The cartoonist apparently has problems with race still stuck in his closet. It will keep coming out now that he has been exposed in the day light !!!!

My dead grandmother would was his mouth with lye soap and he would wake up fast. New York, Alabama, Wash. DC., this disease still exists and only PRAYER is the clean choice.

I am not usually in agreement with Sharpton as I think he is hyper-sensitive and in the past he has made more drama than was necessary.

However, this time he may right. With repubs refusing to touch the stimulus bill and saying it belongs to President Obama and the cartoon appears the day after the official signing of the bill and the fact that the author of the current stimulus bill is portrayed as a monkey/chimp.

This does not look good, on several levels, racist at least and perhaps guilty of advocating violence against an elected official at most.

I have to come down on the side with Sharpton about the racist aspect, at least this one time.

Go home, grow old, and die a very unhappy man Al. This is ridiculus...

The image of an ape has a long history of use as a derogatory symbol of people considered as inferior. In the 1840s, it was the Irish peasant who was depicted as a primate, primarily in the London newspapers. Although I seldom agree with the Rev. Sharpton, I am with him on this one.

I don't always agree with Rev. Al but this time I am in his corner. Depicting a shot ape as the bearer of a stimulus package is tasteless and the cartoonist knew exactly what he was doing. I never bought The NY Post and probably never will.

I don't always agree with Rev. Al but this time I am in his corner. Depicting a shot ape as the bearer of a stimulus package is tasteless and the cartoonist knew exactly what he was doing. I never bought The NY Post and probably never will.

Stupid! I guess Sharpton is the racist. He's the one comparing apes to blacks.

The cartoonist for The New York Post is a moron and he should be on his knees thanking God that someone has signed a stimulus bill. What if he was out of a job. Wouldn't he want someone to help him out? Don't count your eggs to quick, Mr. Cartoonist. The same thing can happen to you. Al Sharpton is simply telling it like it is. Racists are the only ones talking against this bill. Stop all the excuses. We are not all dumb and we see through this rhetoric that the Repubs and all other opposers are making. You didn't say anything for eight years and now you are squalling. Grow up!! You agreed to send billions to Iraq, but not America. Whose unpatriotic now?

Just so the overly touchy Al Sharpton knows, legislation is rarely written by lawmakers. It is usually written by someone else with a much less public face, who may have actually been a chimp. So he needs to calm down.

A clever way of putting it! That is what I got out of it. I know what it was saying. I never agree with Al Sharpton, bu this time-–I DO!

Get'm AL! They know what they did.

Grow up Al... It's called humor!
I believe the appropriate reference is to the lack of inteligence by all those who had a hand in constructing it.

Why would the Post even want to put something like that in the paper? THEY wanted to start some s*&#! Not everyone interprets cartoons the exact same way...to me it was offensive....shame on U Post!

I've never been a huge fan of Al Sharpton, but he's right on this one. The cartoon is infused with racial inferences and messages. Delonas and Col Allen should be very ashamed of themselves. What a sorry excuse for journalism.

The Cartoonist as well as the Post who defends this cartoon meant it as a racial slur against President Obama and all the African American men and women who have been shot dead by police officers. Their minimizing Rev. Sharpton's accusations for their brand of racial hatred as " absolutely frigging ridiculous" is futher proves thier own ignorance. I simply have one question: Why is the Cartoonist and all at the Post who sancion this brand of "murderous" humor not brought up on hate crimes?

The New York Post is calling President Obama a monkey. Figurately, they should be shot.

I'm a leftie – but I disagree with Sharpton totally. I didn't see any racism here. The chimp story was the most "searched" internet story yesterday.

I disagree with the premise of the cartoon. I support the stimulus plan, and I trust Obama & his economic advisors to come up with a good plan. I'm glad Democrats finally can drive this bus, I'm sick of Republican ideas.

SHUT UP AL SHARPTON! You are irrelevant. You perpetuate racism! And, Obama didn't write the stimulus bill, Pelosi and gang did. It's a commentary on the stupidity of it, while using a current event to facilitate the message. Get over yourself. You are an opportunist and a fool. I don't know why you even get face time. Are you really supposed to be the self-styled voice of the African American community? WHAT AN IDIOT.

Humor or not, to draw a cartoon of anyone, particularly referring to the POTUS or members of Congress, being shoot by the police, should be considered a terrorist threat to ones life. Poor taste and worse humor to make fun and laugh at a woman who was mulled and trying it to a bill signed by the POTUS to give relief to mulled American People. For those who have jobs, a home, and food on the table, hope and pray you don't lose your independence.

Leave it up to Al Sharpton to find something racist in every situation. That is his excuse to stay in the public eye.

I didn't take the cartoon to mean anything other than the fact that the economy is dead and the stimulus isn't going to revive it.

I also agree that since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (both white) were the originators of the stimulus bill, the cartoon could have been referring to Congress as a whole.

Lighten up AL! Not every blessed thing is about race!!!!

What a shame. It takes a special person to spit in the face of decency to create something so ugly. Truly a damaged soul.

I am outraged and offended by the cartoon. I absolutely disagree with the Post's editor-in-chief's statement about Sharpton being an publicity opportunist regarding this matter. I believe there are a lot of people in the black community who are offended by this cartoon. Another example of how racism still exists in America

Saw the cartoon and Rev Sharpton's outrage is justified...alon with the rest of the black community...... of all the stoires this week they chose the one about the monkey, they knew better than that.

Sharpton is right... the cartoon was a joke and such a disgrace. Make fun of his ears or something but not his race.

Don't insult my intelligence!!! That cartoonist knows good and d@mn well what he was saying in that cartoon!

White people are quick to tell black people not to play the race card when whites always play the card first.

Whites say, pull yourself up by your boot straps, work hard and make it on your own and stop saying racisim is stopping you.

Except when black people do so, and beat out white people fairly, then white folks want to degrade or threaten to kill them.

Black people will get over race when white people get over it first!!!!

Sean Delonas knows exactly what he was doing and there is no excuse. Sean is just another poor example of pure hate and ignorance and doesn't deserve a job. Put him in the unemployment line with millions of others so he can feel their pain.

Equating a monkey with the likes of Al Sharpton is an insult to all the intelligent monkeys in the world.

If we wanted to mock Mr Sharpton, we would use donkey doo doo - monkeys are way too smart

so most of the bail out money goes to al sharptons acorn home owners ,,, figures no wonder Al is mad ....

led by Rush Limbaugh the GOP and the Right Wing are right now bringing disgrace to the United States of America after Jim Crow.

How can the People of the United States of America even let such thing happen in the Land of Free.

I hope there legal actions against New York Post

Okay the cartoonist should be able to express himself about the stimilus package without having a chimp in the picture. We all know in the past that racist people referred to blacks as monkeys or chimps.

And I am tired of whites saying that everytime they write about something or display something, it dont mean they are racist. If you are not racist then you would be more sensitive to others!!

That ridiculous cartoon was violent at best and racist at worst. Most of us who saw the cartoon and the heading thought about President Obama because we have so many images of him making stops in the country to discuss the bill. If the "author" of the cartoon would have thought for two seconds he would have realized that this might be somewhat offensive. He has his right to his opinion however I do as well and it did not make me smile or laugh. Ignorance is sometimes hard to define yet I know it when I see it. This was complete ignorance on the part of the New York Post.

My God! The comment was clearly racist. To compare the President to a chimp and to suggest that he should be shot is horrible.

Another of Sharptons pathetic attempts to be seen as relevent to anything. Some people will just never be happy it seems and need to create controversy out of nothing.

Please everybody just ignore Sharpton till he pays off what he owes from being sued for defamation of character. He is just a angry racist who is no longer relevant in the era of Obama.

Yeah... yeah... I tell you what put the chimp in a gas chamber and state the same thign and every Jewish, Evangelical and news media outlet will be outraged.

Well why use a monkey? That lady in Conn. don't want to be reminded about the either. I think it is hidden racism.

Sharpton has nothing to talk about... this is sad. I actually by his standards he might be racist.

I agree. Entirely too much is made of "racial remarks". If President Bush was still in office, nobody would say anything about any cartoon material. Some people are just looking to stir things up.

If anyone should be upset about this cartoon, it is the woman who had her face mauled off by the chimp in Connecticut.

Again! When you are part of the dominant group, may it be male, female, white, black, gay or not. You think everything is funny from your point of veiw until someone punch you in your face, and state that you are not! This wasn't funny or clever, it 400 years of history yelling back!
Monkey jokes are directed at black poeple. I dare anyone to draw a cartoon about jewish people from NYC. You world would get shut down!!!!

That is dispicable NY Post. I believe in sattire, but it sounds lik eyou guys crossed the line. Al Sharpton is the wrong guy you want on your butt.

"“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

While I don't agree with Al on everything, I have to agree with him on this one. I saw the ad. No normal person could think that the picture isn't racist.

"It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy..."

If the chimp in the cartoon doesn't represent somebody, then I don't get it.... The caption says "We'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill", so the chimp clearly represents someone presumably the person who wrote, or was responsible for the bill.

In this case, Sharpton doesn't sound "absolutely friggin' ridiculous." to me.

I have no overwhelming love for the NY Post – personally, I think it's best used in the bottom of bird cages or as toilet paper on camping trips. I also have different thoughts on the stimulus bill as the cartoonist does – in my mind, even with it's enormous price tag, it is necessary and inevitable if we are looking to avoid another Great Depression (which, we can all agree on, we are). However, I have to agree with the paper and the cartoonist on this issue.

There was a chance to link a ridiculous news story with something political, and the artist took the chance to which he is entitled and made it into something sarcastic and witty.

Al Sharpton has, I'm sure (?), good intentions for the people he chooses to defend and represent, but he needs to pick his battles. There are things far worse out there than someone feeling that maybe-sorta-kinda there's something racist about a political cartoon. Filter, Al. Filter. Not every depiction of a monkey, ape, chimp, or the like is a shot at people of color.

Chill out, Sharpton. We know the stimulus bill wasn't written by apes...it was written for apes.

I wondered when the first racially-tinged commentary related to the federal government would appear. It is not surprising that it came from the NY Post, and I expect there will be dozens of similar incidents as long as President Obama holds office.

I will not hold my breath waiting for Michael Steele (Republican Party Chair) to condemn the depiction.

The Post's cartoon was not even remotely funny, humorous or much else. Simply stated it's offensive.

Oh My God – I totally agree with Sharpton – a first!

The reason that this Delonas guy doesnt see it the way Sharpton does is because, gee how can I say this....he's "friggin" white and and therefore right.

Al Sharpton is a liberals liberal. He really has all the qualities that make one a liberal Democrat. Average Democrat in America thinks this cartoon is racist since Al told them so, yet they think is was great to throw oreos at Micheal Steele for daring to not be a Democrat.

Jesus... As a black man I say Sharpton, would you please just shut the hell up.

I can understand where Al is coming from, I just think he is wrong in this case. The Post has always taken advantage of racially charged siturations, and they should not be showing this because of the poor ladies lost and the wonded women, but I don't think they were talking about Obama, after all the dem congress wrote the bill.

I'm sorry Rev. Al is right in this one! This is clearly offensive! I don't see the joke!

Sharpton is really looking for something to keep him relevent.

Wow racist are getting more ingenious these days.... This is a sad day. I will not question the intelligence of the author or the paper... They knew exactly what they where doing with that picture... As an African American I am insulted and will never procure information from the post again.

The direct inference is that a chimp wrote the bill and to intertwine this with a recent travesty is poor taste and at best very bad judgement. You can explain it how you wish, but very few people will disassociate such an image from the president. African-Americans will see it as an attack on the president.

Yep, here's the dems wanting to shut down all opposition to anything they want to do. Be careful, USA, these dems are going to want to change the Constitution to limit your right to free speech. Why are these foolish people in power anyway?

This has to be all Republican racist Sean Delonas has going for himself.

It is just a stupid cartoon and the news paper is just exercising freedom of speech in the manner that the founders envisioned. This cartoon may be in bad taste, but it is not worth getting all upset about it. Sharpton, you need a real job. Once again you comes across as a professional victim – out to make something sinister out absolutely nothing.

That cartoon was in bad taste, I thought about President Obama when I read the captsion even if it wasn't the reference to the dead chimp went over the line. We have forgotton how to disagree and still be civil.

I'm sorry, Delonas KNEW exactly what his whole monkey being shot cartoon implies.

What a bunch of BS coming from the NY Post. If he was NOT targeting President Obama, he would have never used the word STIMULUS in the cartoon caption.

The minute the word STIMULUS was used in the caption, WHO ELSE would the picture be referring to?

1. The woman who was attack did NOT WRITE the Stimulus package

2. The Owner of the monkey herself had NOTHING to do with the Stimulus package.

WHAT THE HELL DOES A MONKEY HAVE TO DO WITH THE STIMULUS? Where is the connection here?

So what in God's name was Delonas thinking? This is neither appropriate or excusable. It's racial undertones is FRONT and CENTER. I'm sick of the blatant EXCUSES by the New York Post. I will be canceling my subscription immediately. I've had enough of this CRAP!!!

I guess it has been too long since Sharpton saw his name in the news. He is a race baiter, a racist, and an incredible hyopcrit who needs to ride off into the sunset with Pat Robertson and Jessie Jackson and never be heard from again.

Gee – Why didn't Al Sharpton ever object to the 8 years of Bush being cartooned as a monkey in national newspapers??

Oh that's right... only black people have a right to cry racism. If it's mocking a white guy – it's justified.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!

Seriously, Al Sharpton? I guess you can manipulate anything to be racially offensive. It's obviously referencing Travis the chimp & the eco stimulus plan. Stop crying 'wolf" and go find some actual issues of discrimination to fixate on, because they are really out there and you are wasting your time with this one. At this rate, perhaps you can manipulate this cartoon to represent your public image, because there is no longer any credibility to anything that involves you. It's unfortunate, b/c people could use a true voice to speak out against discrimination.

Al Sharpton is an embarassment to the Democratic Party and all black Americans, better suited to making guest appearances on the Jerry Springer show instead of legitimate news broadcasts,

So is Sharpton saying Obama wrote the bill? Not the legislature? If that's true that may be illegal.

I'm afraid our language doesn't have a word to descibe what a complete moron Sharpton is. He doesn't know anthing else but playing the race card. I would never think of comparing him to a monkey. A monkey has 10 times the brains.

The writer writes:
"The comic showed two police officers standing over the body of a chimpanzee they just shot — a reference to the recent mauling of a Connecticut woman by her pet chimp, which was killed by police after the attack. "

The woman who was mauled was a friend of the woman who owned the chimp, not the chimp owner. Not to nitpick, but just a factual error.

Thanks and have a great day

Ah, it's great to see this racist still has something to whine about.

Delonas is wrong. Look at the comments the article received on HuffPost's website. People, including myself, outraged. It will come back to bite you...watch.

Uhh, Obama didn't write the bill. If anything, it's suggesting Congressional leaders are apes, which is rather insulting to apes.

Of course Al Sharpton, the nototios Race Pimp himself, would jump on this cause. If you have a level head and you read this cartoon you can onky conclude that it was not racist in any way. It is getting downright scary for anyone who opposed Obama in any way, and anyone who does not support his policies is labelled a racist. It is not OK for Phil Gramm to call the U.S. a nation of whiners but it is perfectly fine for Attorney General Holder to call us a nation of cowards????? I hate liberalism and the debilitating effects it is having on our country and the erosion it creates in society. liberalism is a disease

Yea, right. It's all Sharpton's fault. That's a good way to try and throw us off of the main message. If they wanted to portray Pelosi why not use the image of a woman. I think we all know why and should demand that an apology be posted as soon as possible with a retraction of the cartoon. It is time to call the media onto the carpet for petty and irresponsible tactics that serve no meaningful purpose to ending all of the hardships that America is facing.

I can't say that I'm mad at Sharpton for this one. I'm not a Sharpton fan, but most African Americans who have been discriminated against know the "monkey" comments all too well.

The cartoonist says "Do you really think I'm saying Obama should be shot?" Is Obama supposed to be the monkey since they are pointing their guns at it?

The Post just chewed off their own leg like a muskrat in a trap.I will never buy that rag again.

I agree with Sharpton; an ape couldn't have possibly done that...
An ape would've probably come up with something much more effective and sensible....

Al, how's Tawana Brawley these days? Wasn't that the little tart you were sporting around acusing good, honest white policemen of raping? You friggin thug!

Hey, Al, we're still waiting for your apology to the Duke University lacrosse team. How about it?

Sharpton is an idiot, obviously. The cartoon mocks the idea that idiots are writing this bailout (people with the intelligence of a monkey...probably collective intelligence in Congress equivalent to ONE monkey). Sharpton is a moron...shame on CNN for giving him the air time.

How sad that the writer of that cartoon doesn't think he was inappropriate. What is wrong with our society? It was inappropriate and it was racist and the writer should know better.

wow can we get a little bit more stupid in this country?

idiots

Hey, Al, we're still waiting for your apology to the Duke University lacrosse team. How about it?

wow can we get a little bit more stupid in this country?

idiots

Who is Sharpton? He is so afraid of being forgot.

And Col Allan is an idiot! The Post is ignorant and hopefully loses tons of readers!

Perhaps using the elephant as a symbol would have been a more current reflection of the truth?

I usually think that Al Sharpton's elevator didn't go to the top but I must agree with him on this one. Why would this clown use a monkey as someone that wrote the stimulus bill. Someone should throw a rabid chimp at Delonas. I can't wait to see what Keith Olberman thinks of this peanut butter and jelly bull____

They still don't get it.

Apes are a lot smarter than the stimulus bill. Sharpton ought to put a sock in it. The Great Protector of everything black is a hypocrite.

Sharpton is one of the biggest racist in the country, and he hides this under he cloak of being a civil rights leader -- patooey!

Sharpton needs to disappear, much like his counterpart Jesse Jackson – these two dead beats have over stayed their welcome in the public eye

I can't say that I'm mad at Sharpton for this one. I'm not a Sharpton fan, but most African Americans who have been discriminated against know the "monkey" comments all too well.

Delonas forgot to say, "If my lack of perception of any point of view other than my own resulted in anybody being offended, then I apologize."

I love Sharpton but I think he is jumping the gun. The cartoon means that a monkey must have developed the stimulus because it is so bad. I like the stimulus but I know the point the Post is trying to make. They are trying to say the monkey that wrote the stim was shot so now we will have to get another monkey to write the next one. As a kid from Queens I know how the Post can be, but not this time Al.

I AM white and the post is wrong in publishing this cartoon, we all know its intent.

As crude as the cartoon sounds – remember Mr Sharpton that everyone is entitled to their opinion as are you to express your dislike of it - The constitution protects it.

Sharpton has always been an idiot. I see nothing has changed.