the NY Post lives down to its reputation

[redbird]

It took Rupert Murdoch's New York Post about a month to go from putting the oath of office on the front page of the paper to publishing a stupid, racist cartoon about President Obama. I'm not linking to it here, because it's ugly, offensive, and not remotely funny. I can't boycott the post, because I stopped reading it years ago for reasons only partly political. (When I was growing up, before the Murdoch days, my parents got it as well as the NY Times, because the Post had late sports results and cartoons.)

I was reminded of this by a friend who posted, comments disabled, but with a link to a story that included the cartoon. She expressed surprise that it wasn't all over her friends list; I suspect this is a combination of people figuring it's been mentioned in the regular press and doesn't need to be discussed here, and a weary "yes, it's run by obnoxious right-wingers, big surprise." The president's press secretary settled for a remark to the effect that the NY Post isn't very newsworthy.

Comments

[calimac.livejournal.com]

That's astonishing, but I believe it. Obama violent? Maybe they think so. I think of the baseless rumor that persisted in the campaign that he couldn't speak well without a teleprompter, even after he'd coolly shot the breeze with Letterman for half an hour, and after Palin had proved that she's the one who couldn't ad lib a coherent sentence; and the ones that Michelle Obama, obviously a smooth professional woman to her fingertips, was accused of terrorist sympathies. And so on.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

That's astonishing, but I believe it. Obama violent? Maybe they think so.

I don't know if there was anything calling Obama personally violent, but during the campaign there was all kinds of crap in right-wing blogs about "Obama Youth" (supposedly being organized on the lines of "Hitler Youth"). One SF writer who shall remain nameless speculated about whether the havoc wreaked by these youth groups on election night would be worse if Obama won or if he lost. So the linking of Obama with violence is out there.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

More Republican projection. It was, after all, Republicans in Brooks Brothers suits who rioted to prevent votes from being counted in Palm Beach County. And they claim Democrats are dangerous?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

One SF writer who shall remain nameless speculated about whether the havoc wreaked by these youth groups on election night would be worse if Obama won or if he lost.

Awww, you're no fun anymore.

(I but quote Monty Python for levity, but seriously, I kind of want to know who said that. At the least I might increase the stock of my local used bookshop.)

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Watch your LJ email.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

So on and so forth indeed. *nods*