NEW YORK (WPIX) -- Outrage and protests continue to mount over The NY Post's controversial cartoon interpreted by many as comparing President Obama to a chimpanzee that was shot and killed by police in Stamford, Connecticut last week.
Reverend Al Sharpton on Sunday called for a special City Council hearing, urging the city to refrain from advertising in The Post.
The civil rights leader, along with other local lawmakers, is also asking for the FCC to review the waiver extended to News Corp and Rupert Murdoch, which allows them to own more than one television station and newspaper in the same city.
"I think that they have sadly tried to reduce this to some personal fight than to really understand the level of offense," Sharpton at a press conference on Sunday. "It seems that we cannot have a true level of democracy in terms of how the newspapers and airwaves are used in this city."
The New York Post issued an editorial on its website last Thursday saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, and apologized to those who were offended by it.
The chairman of the NAACP, Julian Bond, spoke out about the cartoon on Saturday, and called for the firing of both the cartoonist and the editor-in-chief of the New York Post.
"This is tastelessness taken to the extreme and its something you expect from this publication," Bond said. "But for the publication to suggest that the only people who object to it are constant critics of the New York Post is beyond ridiculous."
It's a cartoon, people. Sharpton, who is a walking, talking cartoon all by himself, should never be taken seriously by anybody for any reason. The guy's a joke.
Julian Bond isn't much better. He's the guy that implied that Republicans were the moral equivalent of the Taliban. These people are fools.
Demanding government censorship of the Post because of a cartoon is an abomination of the values we're supposed to hold dear through our Bill of Rights.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment