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By now I'm sure you've heard the hullabaloo about The New York Post Obama cartoon:
While it can be defended that the cartoonist is just a crappy cartoonist who misjudged the pop culture effect of the the chimp shot recently for mauling a Connecticut woman and generally a dense individual for not realizing a cartoon of a monkey being shot to death meant to represent our first black president is bound to overpower his rather weak message, this cartoonist is special. A search of his name, Sean Delonas, shows this isn't the first time he's demonstrated some rather, shall we say, questionable taste and morals in his cartooning.
What follows is a collection (with their commentary) of Mr. Delonas's work, courtesy of Gawker Dot Com.
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So you see? Delonas and The New York Post aren't racists! They're also homophobes, misogynists, and just downright irrelevant and unfunny (scratch that, unintentionally funny).
While it can be defended that the cartoonist is just a crappy cartoonist who misjudged the pop culture effect of the the chimp shot recently for mauling a Connecticut woman and generally a dense individual for not realizing a cartoon of a monkey being shot to death meant to represent our first black president is bound to overpower his rather weak message, this cartoonist is special. A search of his name, Sean Delonas, shows this isn't the first time he's demonstrated some rather, shall we say, questionable taste and morals in his cartooning.
What follows is a collection (with their commentary) of Mr. Delonas's work, courtesy of Gawker Dot Com.
( Read more )
So you see? Delonas and The New York Post aren't racists! They're also homophobes, misogynists, and just downright irrelevant and unfunny (scratch that, unintentionally funny).
