Today's Political Cartoon

From Sean Delonas of the New York Post, using the crazy chimp story from Connecticut to make a point about the Porkulus Bill:
The Huffington Post is all a'twitter trying to make the case that this cartoon is a racist attack on The One (h/t Powerline):

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called the cartoon "troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys." ...

A story about the cartoon on the liberal-leaning Huffington Post Web site drew hundreds of reader responses, many calling the cartoon racist and insensitive.

Sam Stein, a columnist for the site, wrote that "at its most benign, the cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as well have written it. Most provocatively, it compares the president to a rabid chimp. Either way, the incorporation of violence and (on a darker level) race into politics is bound to be controversial."

Anybody heard of Chimpy McHitler? That was a derogatory title given to President Bush by many of the lefty websites like the HuffPo. I guess it's not racist or objectionable to use a term like that against a white Republican.

As Powerline points out, Obama didn't write the Porkulus Bill. It was written by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, so if the cartoonist is suggesting that anyone's writing is on a par with a chimp, it would be them.