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

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

It isn't even just a linkage with wild animals; it's specifically a linkage with non-human (no, that's too neutral, because what those who use this figure mean is sub-human) primates. If a cartoon depicted President Obama as a lion or tiger, the cartoonist might well have meant it in a neutral or even flattering way, but a chimp? He'd have to have been living in a cave on the moon not to know the implications of that.

[shikzoid.livejournal.com]

That bit of right-wing double-speak had me scratching my head 40 years ago. "We believe black people are not as evolved as we are. We don't believe in evolution." Kinda blew their credibility right there.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I never put those two things together before.