Today, The New York Post ran an editorial cartoon that combines political commentary with local news. Riffing on a recent story about a chimpanzee attack, Sean Delonas depicts two police officers chatting after shooting an ape. As the chimpanzee appears to bleed to death, one cop quips, "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."
The logical inference is, of course, that Obama is the dying chimp. I'm not even going feign to understand what went through the minds of the all of the editors who thought this would be okay to publish, let alone that of Delanos. Understandably, Al Sharpton and New York governor David Paterson are demanding an explanation for the offensive cartoon.
Anyway, here's a pro tip for Post editors. Things you should emphatically not compare the president to: jihadists, characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe novels, and chimpanzees. Not implicitly, not explicitly, not ever.
--Alexandra Gutierrez
