 “Now, say you’re sorry, and MEAN it!”
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Here’s the full text of Mr. Murdoch’s stronger apology:
As the Chairman of the New York Post, I am ultimately responsible for what is printed in its pages. The buck stops with me.
Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted.
Over the past couple of days, I have spoken to a number of people and I now better understand the hurt this cartoon has caused. At the same time, I have had conversations with Post editors about the situation and I can assure you — without a doubt — that the only intent of that cartoon was to mock a badly written piece of legislation. It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such.
We all hold the readers of the New York Post in high regard and I promise you that we will seek to be more attuned to the sensitivities of our community.
Does an apology lend credence to the charge?
“It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such.”
He’s blaming the readers.
What a tool.
The readers do not apologise.
Didn’t people refer to Bush as a monkey because of his ears?
Yeah, I don’t see monkey as having to do with race. But if you want to make it a racial issue, I guess you might see it that way.
It is easy to see the level Dvorak’s readership has fallen to.
It has long been a slur against African Americans to refer to them as monkeys, chimps, or other simian types. For most blacks, this is highly offensive. For those that can’t see that, you are offensive. And I think that makes your twisted little minds happy knowing that.
Hey Alfred==if a new neighbor moves in and is black and the next night a cross is planted in his yard with an open noose around the arm and the whole thing is set on fire
do I have to be a racist to say the black guy should be concerned?
#43–Pedro==I don’t know what you mean by that. “I” didn’t write the stimulus bill.
#41, alfie,
and the idea the chimp is Obama is predicated upon his writing the bill…everyone knows Congress, not Obama, wrote the bill…therefore Obama was not the chimp…
Quit being such a Rush Limbaugh tool. The stimulus bill is Obama’s. He pushed it and the White House originated it. In the future, it will be solidly associated with him.
Usually you racists don’t care when you are outed. Then again, that only shows just how much you are a real American.
The monkey was in reference to the Chimpanzee that the police in CT shot and killed the day before because it attacked and critically injured a person.
#46–jantmass==don’t be such a monkey.
The sad thing is most of the racists on this blog insist they aren’t. They don’t understand that what they take for granted might just be offensive to someone else. It isn’t always what you mean, but quite often the innocent.
Bobbo’s analogy in #42 is quite apt. At what point should the neighbor become concerned that your Church’s welcoming practice might be a threat?
I hate it when big-wigs say “the buck stops here” and then they do NOTHING tangible to remedy the problem.
Bascially when a politician, police chief or a CEO says “the buck stop here” they mean “I said I’m sorry. Now shut up, already!”
If the buck REALLY stops with Murdock, then Murdoch needs to make a Murdoch-sized donation to the NAACP or other black organization. 100 mill or so is appropriate.
# 49 Greg Allen said, “I hate it when big-wigs say “the buck stops here” and then they do NOTHING tangible to remedy the problem.”
What problem? Free speech?
#50, Cow-Patty,
No one is suggesting that the New York Post broke any law by publishing the cartoon. Well, except apparently you.
The complaint is that Murdoch is responsible for allowing an obvious insult to African Americans to fester. The matter should have been taken care of without such a weak apology last week.
# 51 Mr. Fusion said, “The complaint is that Murdoch is responsible for allowing an obvious insult to African Americans to fester.”
So? The media in general insult people all the time. Get over it unless you want to take them on every time it happens. Otherwise, it is just insincere whining.
42 bobbo, 48 MF. But objecting to Bush being called a monkey while Obama is running for president is just being too sensitive? What else might be proclaimed as being, and not being, too sensitive? And by whom?
I recall the case of “Hunky Bill,” a Ukrainian pyrogy-maker (and brand) being unsuccessfully sued by offended Ukrainians because the word “hunky” had a clearly derogatory history having been derived from the word “bohunk.”
Meanwhile the rest of us can just laugh about these things.
The Canadian N-word was “Canuck.” Now it is Vancouver’s NHL team. Wonder what it takes to diffuse these things?
RBG
Minorities shouldn’t be offended so easily.
#54, RBG,
The Canadian N-word was “Canuck.”
Wrong. Canuck was the affectionate nickname given Canadians during WWII. The same as the British were called Tommies, Australians were Ausies, and the Americans Yanks. Canuck was never a derogatory name unless it became implied.
56: MF: According to Bart Bandy’s Lexicon of Canadian Etymology (Don Mills, Ont., C. Farquharson, 1994), the term evolved from the French word canule …it rose from a mispronunciation among Benedict Arnold’s (American) forces as they laid siege to Quebec in the winter of ’76.
“Quelle canule” = What a bore!
CW (Bill) Milner
First Secretary
Canadian High Commission, Australia
tinyurl.com/b78fqp
Also notes:
CANUCK: Avoid this offensive term. Consider revising. (WordPerfect grammar checker)
n. Often Offensive Slang.
A Canadian, especially a French Canadian
http://answers.com/topic/canuck
Dictionary.com
dictionary.reference.com/browse/canuck
The OED notes that the US usage is generally derogatory.
tinyurl.com/ddyppf
Canadians use “Canuck” as an affectionate or merely descriptive term for their nationality. Other nationalities may use the word as an affectionate, or derogatory, or merely a descriptive term.
Wikipedia: Canuck
According to “Unkind Words,” by Irving Lewis Allen, “Canuck” French-speaking Canadians living in or near the northeastern U.S. consider “Canuck” to be an offensive ethnic slur.
In the U.S., it’s often derogatory, but in Canada it seems never to be.
Carnival of Insults
tinyurl.com/bjn8bk
A Canadian. Once often used disparagingly; now a proud label. (disputed)
Canadian Slang Dictionary:
http://www.coolslang.com/in/canadian/index.php
I have NEVER thought of the cartoon being racist until Jesse Jackson started bitching about it.