Now you see, the first thing I thought of when I saw this was the old adage about a room full of monkeys banging away on typewriters... The Infinite Monkey Theorem...
I think the author of the article you linked was wrong, I don't think the dead monkey
(chimpanzee?) represented Obama. All Obama did was
sign the stimulus bill, he didn't write. The cartoon clearly states the need to find someone to
write the next stimulus bill.
Sure sure - NOTHING about monkeys and the Black Mooslim Kenyan Marxist president ... Nyet Comrade, NYET!!
Nice try. Not once did I or have I referred to or thought of Obama in those terms.
Who knows, maybe my interpretation of the comic is not what the "artist" intended. Maybe it is. Maybe, in a time where people are looking to be offended, it was akin to a Rorschach test.
Sure sure - Merely irreverence I am certain!!
A number of his cartoons have been criticized as "racist, offensive, and misleading."
[6] His work has been criticized as "ham-handed",
[7] and he has been accused of "churning out malevolent fantasies."
[8] He has been called "the worst cartoonist on the planet" by
Vanity Fair, which also asked if he was "stupid, racist, or both?"
[9] Conversely,
Commentary also praised his irreverent visual imagination, and described as "a bizarre cross between
Jack Davis of
Mad Magazine and
Hieronymous Bosch."
[10]
A 1999 cartoon depicted
Louis Farrakhan about to undergo surgery for recently diagnosed cancer, with the surgeons preparing to cut through his neck to remove "the cancerous tumor from Farrakhan's body."
[11] A 2001 cartoon showing rival editor
Mortimer B. Zuckerman of the
New York Daily News sending
anthrax to
Post editor
Col Allan led to sponsor withdrawal.
[12]
After a photoshopped picture of the
Sesame Street muppet
Bert standing alongside
Osama bin Laden went viral when it turned up on a pro-Osama placard, the website which included it (
Bert is Evil) was taken down. Referencing this, in the
Post, Delonas did a series of depictions of Bert instructing and training
Taliban and
Al Qaida terrorists.[
citation needed]
In 2009, two days after a local
chimpanzee mauling[13] and one day after legislation was signed into law by President
Barack Obama,
[14] Delonas depicted two white police officers who just shot and killed a
chimpanzee. One officer says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next
stimulus bill."
[15] The cartoon was widely criticized as in bad taste
[16] and as making a reference to the racial slur of African Americans being portrayed as apes. Protests came from journalists,
[17][18][19][20] politicians,
[21][22] police groups,
[23][24][24] and the public.
[25][26] The
Post disputed this interpretation and defended Delonas.
[27] The
Post apologized "to those who were offended by the image" while in the same statement accusing "some in the media" of seizing on the opportunity for "payback".
[28]
In 2018, the
Albuquerque Journal apologized for publishing a cartoon by Delonas which equated
MS-13 gang members with
Dreamers. The cartoon was widely criticized, including by both US Senators from New Mexico.
[6][29][30][31]