The New York Post published a political cartoon by Sean Delonas today (you can see it in the video below) depicting two officers and a dead monkey with bullet holes in it, one of the officers is holding a smoking gun, while the other is saying "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." Obviously, the controversy is that the monkey could represent Obama, and that he is being shot. However, Delonas has called this controversy "absolutely friggin' ridiculous" and said that the cartoon is strictly about the stimulus bill, although going off of what the officer in the cartoon is saying, that may not be entirely true. Source.
Also, here is a video about it from youtube, featuring Chris Matthews - the guy who wrote that - fun - book we read over summer.
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I understand how this cartoon could be offensive, but if you think about it, it's making fun of the person who wrote the stimulus, which was Congress. So I don't really think that the artist was trying to depict Obama, though there are some good argument of how it could be. But the quote is "They'll have to find someone else to WRITE the next stimulus bill" and Obama only signed it, he didn't write it, so I think it's been blown a little out of propotion, even though it is offensive one way or another.
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Um it's clearly just saying that the stimulus bill was badly written or whatever.
I think this is just people looking for stuff to be mad about.
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