New York Post Cartoon: Is this 'Racially Offensive'?

I don't believe that Obama wrote the bill, let alone read it. This monkey image is directed toward the senate and house democrats. When are people going to get past this race thing? The only people that it really seems to matter to are those that make their living perpetuating this type of c$(p.

I am African-American and it is definitely racially offensive. It implies that Obama is a chimpanzee and has been shot.

I'm far more offended at the actual 'stimulus' bill and Al Sharpton's race-baiting than that silly cartoon.

News Flash to Al Sharpton:

We are all Monkeys on this Planet.
The cartoon is funny.
Go buy some stem cells and inject them where your humor gland is supposed to be.
Then pray to God that they grow and multiply.

For once Sharpton is right....Holy Crap! That cartoon was offensive!

I think the monkey is supposed to represent Congress and all of the "monkey business" that went on with the spending bill, not President Obama. Of course, Mr. Delonas could have written "CONGRESS" in big letters across the monkey and Mr. Sharpton probably would have still taken offense.

It is easily interpreted as racist, and it was very easy, without any prodding from the likes of Al Sharpton, to recognize that this cartoon was going to offend. The WP obviously meant to offend. Shame on them.

This seems to me to be a very thinly veiled reference to President Obama who is the main proponent of the stimulus bill which just passed Congress and was signed into law. Comparing our African American President to a chimpanzee is very definitely a racial slur and offensive.

The cartoon is offensive and not at all funny. It is racist, violent, and insensitive. It is possible that the cartoonist didn't realize he was creating something with racial undertones as he was drawing it, but after it was finished, it should have been caught by himself and/or his editors and not printed. Aside from the racial undertones, it is also violent and insensitive to the death of the chimpanzee. Trivializing death in this fashion is just plain wrong!

Can we all just grow up? When did everyone's feeling get so touchy? I am a Christian and get pounded daily in numerous cartoons. Some are funny, some aren't. I don't get too riled up about them because they don't matter!!! If you are that easily offended, you need to look at what really matters in this life. Good grief!

I'm still laughing at the cartoon that showed O-dumb-ah with the massive ears yesterday and featured on Tappers blog page
Maureen Dowd made fun of "doh" bamas big ears and she got blasted for it lmao too funny

didn't they call bush "chimp boy"

there was even a toy chimp that looked like bush that was sold ..

were you all as offended by the HRC nutcracker?

Get over it...

The Policeman, the cartoonist and the writer of this article all are on the same category. Their aim is to click nerves of some people!

Dean, what world are you from? The democrats are going to "change America". Doesn't that imply they don't like it the way it is?! Most republicans that I know love America, its founding fathers and our constitution - you that pesky document that just seems to keep getting in they way of the demo's plans to better society.

I am more offended by the shooting image in the cartoon; whether it was Congress or the POTUS (Bush or Obama)and it is WRONG!!! Humor is supposed to be funny, right?!

I am a little shocked by the cartoon.

We all know that the GOP are racist but this goes too far.

Al Sharpton is racially offensive.

I don't care if it's racially offensive to some or not. We still live in America where I will continue to believe that, even if you don't agree with someone's opinion or viewpoint, you have to respect their right to have it.

If you don't like the cartoon then don't look at it! Personally, I took nothing away from that cartoon. I looked at it and didn't find it funny, offensive or anything. Kind of a dud actually.

Sharpton is sorely feeling the loss of the spotlight now that racial politics has finally started to move on is what I think.

Nancy, where do you get the idea that the GOP is racist. The racist GOP are the ones that passed all the civil rights laws - it was the demo's that fought for segregation! You are simply repeating what you have heard a hundred times from the MSM. Try looking some facts up before just parroting what those who are trying to sway you with lies are saying. The GOP values each individual, not groups.

Amy: "Dean, what world are you from? The democrats are going to "change America". Doesn't that imply they don't like it the way it is?! Most republicans that I know love America"

That is the most concise summary of what is wrong with the Republican party I've read in a long time. Shallow, logically vacuous, accusatory, with a simultaneous air of superiority and victim hood. It is as excellent an example of how good satire works as the comic is of how bad satire does not work.