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"Paterson also referred to two disparaging skits about his near blindness by NBC's "Saturday Night Live." He noted he hadn't received an apology."
Newsday: Paterson accepts New York Post cartoon apology
BY JAMES T. MADORE james.madore@newsday.com
February 21, 2009
Gov. David A. Paterson on Friday accepted the New York Post apology for what some termed a racist cartoon, but called for a discussion about satire of public officials.
"It might be a time to open up a dialogue on just where that line is, where good clean fun and degradation are," Paterson told reporters in Manhattan.
He was responding to a Post editorial cartoon Wednesday that many saw as portraying President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee. The Rev. Al Sharpton, state senators and other African-American leaders have called for boycotting the newspaper.
Paterson disagreed, calling the Post apology "very honorable ... At this time when tensions are running high, with the economy down and also even the media outlets having to lay off people, it is an act of sensitivity."
Paterson also referred to two disparaging skits about his near blindness by NBC's "Saturday Night Live." He noted he hadn't received an apology.
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/saturday/news/ny-stpate216043782feb21,0,4082582.story
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February 20 2009 New York Post: (An apology for) That Cartoon
New York Post: THAT CARTOON
Last updated: 9:21 am February 20, 2009
Posted: 8:00 pm February 19, 2009
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.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02192009/postopinion/editorials/that_cartoon_155984.htm
20090220 New York Post An apology for That Cartoon
Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/
Last updated: 9:21 am February 20, 2009
Posted: 8:00 pm February 19, 2009
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.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02192009/postopinion/editorials/that_cartoon_155984.htm
20090220 New York Post An apology for That Cartoon
Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/
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