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To: michael97123 who wrote (457829)	2/19/2009 4:54:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576379

my point is that obama isnt being portrayed as crazed chimp. Its all in your mind. Then why did they use a monkey in the cartoon? Wouldn't a donkey be more appropriate for a Dem president? And if its not Obama who is the monkey supposed to be given the caption, referring to Obama's stimulus plan? You seem to be running out of excuses.

To: michael97123 who wrote (457829)	2/19/2009 5:35:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576379

"If there is any apology due, it shouldn't come from the cartoonist, insisted Ted Rall, the president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, whose cartoons run in 100 publications across the U.S. An editor should object if there is a strong possibility that a cartoon will not resonate the way the cartoonist wanted, he said. Cartoonists have to be free to be creative, to not edit themselves during the drawing process. "He was trying trying to jam two stories together, and unfortunately this is what a lot of lame editors like," Rall said. "The comparison he had in mind: The guy who wrote the package wasn't Obama; it was a bunch of white economic advisers, and he [Delonas] wasn't thinking about Obama." The Post cartoonist, he added, has the misfortune of working in a business that, over the past decade, has become a graveyard of gag jokes. A former editor once told Rall that satire in cartooning died after September 11. "I have to wonder about the competence of his editors," Rall continued. "It goes with the 'make it shorter and dumber' mentality that's happening in print." Cartoonist John Auchter, of the Grand Rapids Business Journal in Michigan, said Delonas had to expect people to be offended. "The racial connotation of what he drew, it's really silly that either he or his editors couldn't anticipate that [reaction]," Auchter said. "When I think about all the things that are thrown around here with the accusations of being racist ... that is one of the things as a cartoonist you have to be aware of -- what you're doing and that you know things are going to be taken that way. You are the first-line editor." Syndicated political cartoonist Chip Bok didn't find the Post cartoon racist, but he said it probably was in bad taste. "A woman was terribly mauled and almost killed," he said. "That's really the only grounds by which [my editors] would throw out a cartoon. When it involves somebody's life like that, I would tend to stay away from it." Bok knows a little about what it feels like to create a polarizing cartoon. In 2006, around the time of the Danish Mohammed cartoon controversy, the Akron Beacon Journal published a cartoon he drew showing a blurred picture of Mohammed on CNN. The cartoonist had been watching the network cover the story about Muslim anger over the Danish cartoons, which showed the prophet with a bomb crafted out of his turban. Bok was upset that CNN had chosen to blur the cartoon in its coverage. The cartoonist immediately drew his cartoon, which showed a couple watching TV and saying, "Well, no wonder Muslims are upset. Muhammad looks like he's on acid." "I was inundated with e-mail, the paper was picketed," he said. "There was quite a reaction." " cnn.com