Sorta Sorry? Spike Lee Not Buying Post Apology (MSNBC)
The Post said the cartoon published in the paper Wednesday linking President Obama to a dead chimpanzee was not intended to be racist and charged that some critics of the cartoon were opportunists looking for payback.
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The cartoon showed two police officers with a smoking gun standing over a dead chimp with a caption that reads, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
The image is a reference to a chimp was shot dead by police after it attacked a woman in Connecticut on Monday and Obama’s signing of the economic stimulus bill on Tuesday. –Xana O’Neill
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