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Post by luthien on Mar 6, 2009 19:34:12 GMT -5
Well, it *is* the Post. If he were in another, more respectable paper I might think he's more successful.
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Post by goten0040 on Mar 6, 2009 22:54:59 GMT -5
He does some tasteless comics, yes, but he must be doing something right if he's made a large career out of it. So did Carlos Mencia. Doesn't mean he's HILARIOUS. -__-; I don't get people.
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Post by asian malaysian on Mar 6, 2009 22:55:46 GMT -5
He tried too hard to sneak it out like a fart in a crowded elevator. He meant no harm, but everyone wanted his head for his actions. God after reading that, that is like the best analogy I could have ever thought of for this situation. He does some tasteless comics, yes, but he must be doing something right if he's made a large career out of it. When did we start talking about Rush Limbaugh?
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Post by xtal on Mar 7, 2009 1:25:05 GMT -5
Because everyone knows black supremacists like to compare white people to chimpanzees! Was that sarcasm? I hope not. I have actually seen black supremacists make those sort of remarks. It's pretty messed up. And of course when someone calls Bush a chimp it is a stab at his intelligence not his race. I think if someone tried to the same thing with Obama someone somewhere would correlate it to racism simply because of his skin and therefore go into a tissy, like people with this cartoon. So, yeah...still a double standard to me. *shrug* Someone is getting away with something while the other is not.
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Post by Yakuza on Mar 7, 2009 2:29:43 GMT -5
He does some tasteless comics, yes, but he must be doing something right if he's made a large career out of it. So did Carlos Mencia. Doesn't mean he's HILARIOUS. -__-; I don't get people. Carlos Mencia wasnt even really a comedian. He was like a machine that spit out George Lopez jokes.
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Post by goten0040 on Mar 7, 2009 9:19:54 GMT -5
^Then why is George Lopez funny and Mencia stupid? XD xtal: I think that if people tried to compare Obama to a chimp, people would immediately jump to race - not just because they're hypersensitive, but there's also the fact that Obama is actually... intelligent. Lol!
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Post by Gran Gran on Mar 7, 2009 12:10:28 GMT -5
I guess we are not used to having somebody in the White House who can actually string together a whole sentence.... The original is always funnier than the copy.
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Post by Horyo on Mar 8, 2009 23:39:30 GMT -5
In my opinion, I found the cartoon to be humorless in itself, if I were to disregard racial stereotypes. The cartoonist could have simply reworded the phrase of the Police officer to avoid a racial intent, or add a few more chimpanzee's or other animals portraying stupidity in humans.
It seems, though, that the cartoon was nothing more than a coincidence, since I doubt the Post would want all this negative bashing and the frustration of coming to work to get pounced.
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Post by Consonant*** on Mar 10, 2009 16:46:44 GMT -5
The real outrage I saw in that story was that the author called Al Sharpton a "leading Civil Rights leader"
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