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The Post's Post-Racial Politics

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media


Bakari Kitwana

This cartoon's arrival on newsstands is way out of step with the times. Regardless of its intention, it reinforces the notion that national conversations on race are long over due.

New York Post's Cartoon Apology

New York Post | Huffington Post | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media


This evening, the New York Post issued a half-apology for Wednesday's notorious stimulus/chimp cartoon which inspired outraged among many readers. Th...

Sam Stein

Limbaugh: Trying To Understand A Dem Like Trying To Understand A Murderer Or Rapist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


Coming off of a tone-deaf cartoon that compared the author of the stimulus bill with a crazed, shot-dead chimpanzee, it seemed likely that, for the ti...

Sam Stein

New York Post Employees Unhappy, Ashamed Of Offensive Cartoon

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media


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 stimul...

NY Post Defends Cartoon, Slams Al Sharpton

Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media


The New York Post has issued a statement defending its stimulus/chimp cartoon and slamming Rev. Al Sharpton for protesting the piece. Here's the full...

Sam Stein

New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media


A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on W...