New York Post Gives Non-Apology For Chimp Cartoon

The New York Post is really sorry if you were offended by that Sean Delonas monkey assassination cartoon it ran last week, unless of course you’ve ever been offended by the Post before. Then you’re probably just an opportunist undeserving of their apology.The News Corp owned paper, (Why, yes, that is the same company that owns Fox News.), published the following statement on their website Friday night:

Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.

It shows two police officers standing over the chimp’s body: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill,” one officer says.

It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.

Period.

But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.

This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.

However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

To them, no apology is due.

Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.

And sometimes your persecutors just hang themselves.