New York Post Issues Wack Apology

The New York post did something on Thursday that I know that didn’t want to do by putting out a lackluster apology for their inflammatory cartoon.

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.

New York Times

The “apology” just as their initial statement, spent time on people who they say see this as “opportunity for payback.” Just substitute the name Rev. Al Sharpton.

For folks they are trying so hard to trivialize, The Post brass sure have spent a lot of time talking about them. Why take this space to offer a backhanded dis to Rev. Sharpton and other protesters? It would have been nice to see them take more responsibility for this situation, but hey, they’re The Post. What more should we expect?