It's good to see that the NY Post is providing such insight in these times...

[Human Snorenado]

Stay classy, guys.

[Tauntaun]

  I love the expression on the chimp's face.

[Eric P]

i think the outrage is a little manufactured here.

presidents don't write bills.

[Phoenix Dark]

Insensitive, not "racist"

Obviously there are racial connotations with the monkey, but I don't think that was the intent, which was simply to point out the stimulus is so shoddy, such a piece of shit that a monkey could have written it (not my opinion of course). Nothing more, nothing less. And of course, that's the general point/context behind comparing moneys to humans in most (modern) cases

I hope someone asks Obama about it because I'm 200% sure he'll have the same reaction I did. Sharpton is looking like a fool, again - this time even more so because the "victim" of such a vicious racist attack is the god damn president of the United States

[duckman2000]

Obviously there are racial connotations with the monkey

why is that?

[The Fake Shemp]

Duckman obviously is unaware of the past couple hundred years of history.

[duckman2000]

Duckman obviously is unaware of the past couple hundred years of history.

I'll admit that I'm constantly baffled by the history of racism around here. And, recently, absolutely taken aback by the interest that supposedly afflicted groups have in keeping the past alive.

[The Fake Shemp]

What is "here"?  If by "here", you mean the "United States of America", I regret to inform you that racism is still not gone.

[Eric P]

What is "here"?  If by "here", you mean the "United States of America", I regret to inform you that racism is still not gone.

whatever

black president

racism is dead

[The Fake Shemp]

You've got me there!

[duckman2000]

What is "here"?  If by "here", you mean the "United States of America", I regret to inform you that racism is still not gone.

I'm married into a primitive baptist family with southern roots. Trust me, I'm familiar with deeply rooted, casual racism. Some of the stuff that comes out of unchecked arguments still manage to surpris me, but not as much as when minorities see demons in every corner. It seems to be damned near the raison d'être for some.

[Phoenix Dark]

Obviously there are racial connotations with the monkey

why is that?

While Obama isn't being compared to a monkey, the mere inclusion of an ape in association to Obama can be seen as insensitive given the history of such imagery. I'm not offended, nor did I jump to any negative conclusions immediately, but many folks have different opinions on this stuff

I just don't see the intent as being Obama=monkey or anything of the sort. It's more along the lines of "monkeys and type writers" which of course is a very old joke - such and such is so bad a monkey must have written it.

This is the type of stimulant that lights up victim receptors in certain black folk's brains. I realize that in of itself is a cultural thing passed on generation to generation but come on - the president is black. Can we put some thought into sensitive comments before blurting out the R word first?

[Eric P]

I just don't see the intent as being Obama=monkey or anything of the sort. It's more along the lines of "monkeys and type writers" which of course is a very old joke - such and such is so bad a monkey must have written it.

actually in new york a helper monkey went insane and ate someone's hands and face off and was killed by the police

it's a pretty gruesome story

[Phoenix Dark]

oh shit 

[The Fake Shemp]

Eric P, are you trying to insinuate that Obama ate someone's hands and face off?  That's pretty racist.  And outrageous.

[Eric P]

i'm sorry it was actually Connecticut

A 200-pound chimpanzee, who was a beloved sight in his Stamford, Connecticut neighborhood, was shot by police officers after he attacked his owner's friend. The Post reports that owner Sondra Herold, 70, was having trouble containing her pet Travis: The Stamford police said that Herold "gave him Xanax in tea to quiet him, but the chimp grabbed the keys to open the kitchen door, went outside and started banging on car doors to indicate he wanted to go for a ride." So Herold called friend Charla Nash for help.

When Nash appeared, Stamford police captain Richard Conklin said that Travis "went up to her, jumped on her and began biting and mauling her." Herold's nephew said that his aunt used a shovel to hit the rampaging animal and then took a kitchen knife and stabbed Travis in the back, but Travis didn't stop. The police arrived and apparently the chimp tore off the cruiser's mirror and opened the door, so the officer, trapped in the cruiser, repeatedly fired at Travis. The animal, now mortally wounded, went back into the home and was found dead in his cage.

Nash is fighting for her life; a paramedic told the NY Times, "I’ve been doing this a long time and have never seen anything this dramatic on a living patient." A friend told WCBS 2, "He bit both of her hands off and the cop told me he just kept eating her. It's terrible."

[duckman2000]

I just don't see the intent as being Obama=monkey or anything of the sort. It's more along the lines of "monkeys and type writers" which of course is a very old joke - such and such is so bad a monkey must have written it.

actually in new york a helper monkey went insane and ate someone's hands and face off and was killed by the police

it's a pretty gruesome story

That's what I assumed the target was when seeing the cartoon, connecting a common opinion of the bill to a previously unrelated story. Racism? I'm not seeing that, at all. Granted that I'm not perfectly familiar with the history of racism here, and obviously not from a black perspective, but this just reeks of a typical Sharpton move, trying to hog some limelight by blindly attributing a racist connotation to something. Seriously, what would this guy be without racism, and the history of racial struggle in America?


On a related note, xanax for a monkey. That's just a peachy slice of America right there.

[lordmaji]

Insensitive, not "racist"

Obviously there are racial connotations with the monkey, but I don't think that was the intent, which was simply to point out the stimulus is so shoddy, such a piece of shit that a monkey could have written it (not my opinion of course). Nothing more, nothing less. And of course, that's the general point/context behind comparing moneys to humans in most (modern) cases

I hope someone asks Obama about it because I'm 200% sure he'll have the same reaction I did. Sharpton is looking like a fool, again - this time even more so because the "victim" of such a vicious racist attack is the god damn president of the United States

Real Talk.

[Phoenix Dark]

Agreed Duckman. Sharpton is a disgrace. Calling someone/something racist is a pretty serious charge, but he uses it so loosely it almost loses its meaning.

not a wayne fan but
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[Brehvolution]

I heard a sound bite of the owner of the monkey on the radio this morning. She said that she cooked for him, bathed him, and slept with him.

[Human Snorenado]

I heard a sound bite of the owner of the monkey on the radio this morning. She said that she cooked for him, bathed him, and slept with him.

And fed him xanax in his tea, apparently.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/17/chimpanzee.attack/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
"she was so mangled the police thought she was a man"

good lord

[duckman2000]

A god damned 70 year old woman with a fucking drugged up chimpanzee, how in the hell could it have ended any other way? Are there no fucking regulations in place for what kind of pet you can own? It's not like chimpanzees are naturally non-aggressive creatures, and they have the strength of several mongoloids.

[Human Snorenado]

There are laws, but she'd had the chimp before the laws were enacted so she was "grandfathered in".  In fact, I think the chimp has been in several commercials and shit.

[Brehvolution]

A god damned 70 year old woman with a fucking drugged up chimpanzee, how in the hell could it have ended any other way? Are there no fucking regulations in place for what kind of pet you can own? It's not like chimpanzees are naturally non-aggressive creatures, and they have the strength of several mongoloids.

 

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[FlameOfCallandor]

A god damned 70 year old woman with a fucking drugged up chimpanzee, how in the hell could it have ended any other way? Are there no fucking regulations in place for what kind of pet you can own? It's not like chimpanzees are naturally non-aggressive creatures, and they have the strength of several mongoloids.

 

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[lordmaji]

A god damned 70 year old woman with a fucking drugged up chimpanzee, how in the hell could it have ended any other way? Are there no fucking regulations in place for what kind of pet you can own? It's not like chimpanzees are naturally non-aggressive creatures, and they have the strength of several mongoloids.

 

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[Joe Molotov]

I heard a sound bite of the owner of the monkey on the radio this morning. She said that she cooked for him, bathed him, and slept with him.

[Great Rumbler]

I am deeply, deeply offended that the New York Post has chosen to make fun of the tragic death of a such a noble and beautiful creature.