The Washington Post’s comical preemptive apology

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 28, 2009 09:12 AM

Remember the Washington Post’s ridiculous preemptive apology for a totally innocuous cartoon featuring an ape — an apology that the WaPo’s own media critic Howard Kurtz told me was “odd?”

Today, the paper printed a letter that castigated the editors for their comical crouch. The writer is dead-on: The decision is beyond odd. It’s cowardly.

The paper deserves to be publicly humiliated:

Saturday, February 28, 2009; Page A11

Regarding your Feb. 22 Editor’s Note on “Monkey Business,” Gene Weingarten’s Below the Beltway column of the same day regarding a survey on sexual attraction:

Oh, good grief. What has the world come to? Are we now forbidden from ever again publishing a cartoon or a humor piece involving a chimp, ape, rhesus monkey or any other primate?

And are we so afraid of Al Sharpton that preemptive apologies are necessary for the most innocent and benign cartoons and articles? Your cowardice is appalling.

– Roy W. Barnes
Nokesville

Posted in: Race Hustlers

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  1. #101
    On February 28th, 2009 at 6:55 pm, Salt said:

    On February 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, RetFireman said:

    So…what am I supposed to do about my youngest daughter? She received a “sock monkey” for Christmas this year.

    Something tells me the hyper-sensitive PC folks would be more concerned that she celebrates Christmas.

  2. #102
    On February 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pm, reutersrutter said:

    Who besides me dislikes “Crappers”. Being old enough to have used a “Crapper” in the winter or anytime, it never made me, “Happy”. If I had the time It would give me great pleasure to give happycrapper a piece of my, uh, used crapper for her, or its collection!

  3. #103
    On February 28th, 2009 at 8:37 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I do not believe I can remember a time when the Washington Post was not a comical response. They were one of the driving forces of PC so it is rough justice they are getting. Giving in to PC is a threat to us all so all I can tell Al Sharpton of the Justice Brothers is Kiss off Huckster.

    American companies have paid these race extortionist MILLIONS of dollars in protection money and thus fed the bear.

    Sort of sick today so I watched CPAC on C-Span- awsome.


    I’ll keep my guns, you keep the change.

  4. #104
    On February 28th, 2009 at 9:33 pm, skysoljr82 said:

    OT: I just saw on Fox News that Paul Harvey has passed away. I feel like I just lost an old friend. God rest his soul. :(

  5. #105
    On February 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I was surprised-haven’t heard him in years. My parents listened to him on the radio in the forties and fifties.

    RIP Mr. Harvey.

  6. #106
    On February 28th, 2009 at 10:11 pm, Lee Hazel said:

    Isn’t PC just wonderful.

    PC is Thought Control
    LEE

  7. #107
    On February 28th, 2009 at 11:38 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On February 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pm, reutersrutter said:
    Who besides me dislikes “Crappers”. Being old enough to have used a “Crapper” in the winter or anytime, it never made me, “Happy”. If I had the time It would give me great pleasure to give happycrapper a piece of my, uh, used crapper for her, or its collection

    Does anyone on this thread know what I may have said to prompt this childish tirade? And who is this reutersrutter? Never hear of him/her. I have been out all evening, and I come home to this. Can anyone enlighten me? I shouldn’t let this bother me, but it does because there was no reference to what I may have said to set this creep off and it was extremely rude.

  8. #108
    On March 1st, 2009 at 12:41 am, RetFireman said:

    I was trying to figure out if it was deliberately pointed your way or just a bizarre coincidence.

    Must be that you are such a blatant Liberal and Obama worshiper….NOT!

    Dunno…Tried to find anything you might have said and came up blank.

  9. #109
    On March 1st, 2009 at 1:38 am, fgmorley said:

    Politically correct means always having to say you’re sorry.

  10. #110
    On March 1st, 2009 at 7:04 am, tampadave said:

    I work in DC, the Kingdom of Political Correctness. If you do not worship at the feet of the Chosen One or His Spouse, you may be charged with a crime….or at the very least stoned. Forget any primate cartoons for the next several years.

  11. #111
    On March 1st, 2009 at 7:20 am, RobM1981 said:

    That’s it! I’M NEVER READING THE WAPO AGAIN!

    Oh… right… I already don’t read newspapers, on principal.

    Enjoy your bankruptcy WaPo, NYT, Boston Globe, and all of your other liberal pals!

  12. #112
    On March 1st, 2009 at 8:48 am, Sergeant Tim said:

    Two words: “Chocolate Jesus.” Bill Maher used them to describe Barack Obama.

    Al Sharpton will surely make a monkey out of Maher for that one right after he figures out a way to convince his gang that ‘bonobo‘ was a veiled reference to Obama and how to extort a “donation” out of the WaPo for their cartoon.

    Note to Maher: apologize now and you’ll save a few bucks dollars later (’bucks’ deleted and preemptive, on the record apology issued.)

  13. #113
    On March 1st, 2009 at 9:56 am, happyscrapper said:

    On March 1st, 2009 at 12:41 am, RetFireman said:
    I was trying to figure out if it was deliberately pointed your way or just a bizarre coincidence.

    Must be that you are such a blatant Liberal and Obama worshiper….NOT!

    Dunno…Tried to find anything you might have said and came up blank.

    Thanks, RetFireman. I didn’t recognize the username…guess it was just one of the trolls who swoop in occasionally to leave a pile. My first clue should have been that big blob of white shi# that I found on the top of my head.

    On to important things…Did anyone hear Rush’s speech last night? I watched an hour of it and was mesmerized! However, we had to leave shortly before he was done talking. I just wondered how the end of his speech went. I was so looking forward to hearing that final punch, but we had reservations and people were waiting for us. As he spoke, I had visions of The Messiah, the most High Leader, listening to him, smoke pouring out of his ears and his eyes turning a glowing red. I am sure he was not happy with the words that were spoken! We need to pray for Rush. I worry about him. He is one of the great voices of reason and sanity that we have today. But, he is also a target of any loonytoon Obama worshiper out there, or some Chicago thug. I know he has bodyguards, but still… I worry about his health too. He smokes cigars and is overweight, a heart attack waiting to happen. I just want him to be around for a long long time! He can stir up the conservative movement like no one else can!

  14. #114
    On March 1st, 2009 at 10:03 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    Speaking of political correctness – an email that Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos, CA sent out showed a field of watermelons growing on the white house front lawn.

    IMMEDIATELY the left went up in arms. So furious was their frenzy that many sites got the State that this village/township/city is in wrong. Well these things happen when you get your news from Huffpo or DUh (Democratic Underground) They also immediately decided, in the depths of their mindless fury, that Dean Grose was a Republican. One of these “Deep Thinkers” posted this nonsensical accusation here, probably giggling to herself in excitement and glee.

    UNFORTUNATELY there’s no evidence that Dean Grose is a Republican. No evidence at all. And we all know that when some moron politician gets themselves in a crack and their party can’t be determined it’s a fools bet that they’re a Democrat. Of all the news articles I’ve read about Al Sharpton’s felonious failure to pay $1.5 million in taxes (which he has yet to pay) very few listed his party affiliation.

    Like anyone would think that he’s a Republican.

    And with $1.5 million in back taxes why isn’t he Secretary of State or something like that?

    But what I’m getting at is who the Frell Put The LEFT in charge of deciding what’s politically correct? No one I know could be that stupid or careless to do such a thing. We’ve all seen the slander and bile slung toward Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarance Thomas.

    And we’ve all seen the foul mouthed stupidity slung at Michelle herself, slung by the so called “loving left”

    I say enough!

    The left has yet proven themselves to be smart enough, mature enough, or courageous enough to determine what’s right and wrong, let alone what’s politically correct or not. Do you think they’d put up with one of us calling Eric Holder a “House Ni****” like left wing nutcase Ted Rall did to Colin Powell (and refused to apologize)? Do you think they’d put up with one of us calling Michelle Obama “Aunt Jemima” like left wing nutcase John Sylvester called Condoleezza Rice (and refused to apologize)?

    How about if we all draw monkeys and label them “Barak Obama” like they did for the past 8 years naming them “George Bush”?

    I say ENOUGH! From now on we conservatives decide what’s politically correct or not. We decide when the first amendment should be violated or if we should let someone have their say then hold them up to public scorn and humiliation.

    Kind of like Michelle does – God bless her.

  15. #115
    On March 1st, 2009 at 10:12 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    happyscrapper

    I agree – Rush’s first address to the nation was OUTSTANDING!!!

    And you’re right – His Wonderfulness was probably on the phone trying to dial up a Secret Service hit squad on El Rushbo less than 5 minutes into his speech.

    (What do you mean you guys don’t do that kind of thing? Back in Chicago it would only cost me $50 to… um… never mind)

    The last 10 minutes of his speech were ok, he didn’t have a big slam-bang closing line, he humbly thanked his audience and praised them for their courage etc. If he had ended up at the top of the hour he would have had a much better close

    But that first hour was magic, wasn’t it? A dead serious call to action mixed with uplifting humor – Rush really hit his stride, and did you notice how young that crowd was? Talk about hope for the future!!!

  16. #116
    On March 1st, 2009 at 10:12 am, happyscrapper said:

    On March 1st, 2009 at 8:48 am, Sergeant Tim said:
    Two words: “Chocolate Jesus.” Bill Maher used them to describe Barack Obama.

    Wow…I went over and watched that clip. Bill Maher is really an intelligent guy and he does understand things that are going on in the world. Just like Rush said last night about Obama…if he could just channel that intelligence toward something good and decent, this country would be in a lot less trouble. As it is, he is just a slimy, nasty “progressive” who is so full of himself he is in danger of exploding and spattering baloney all over the room. Interesting name he called Obama. Calls for an apology from Al Sharpton in 3…2…1…crickets.

  17. #117
    On March 1st, 2009 at 10:26 am, pdigaudio said:

    I’ve referred to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Barack Hussein Obama as the Chocolate Jesus since during the election. You mean Bill Maher is stealing my material now? Hehehehe.

  18. #118
    On March 1st, 2009 at 10:27 am, pdigaudio said:

    Oh, and I actually got that reference from a black fellow conservative who also calls Him that.

    My response to The Reverend Al Sharpton involves one finger. Guess which one …

  19. #119
    On March 1st, 2009 at 12:37 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On March 1st, 2009 at 10:03 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    YES, YES, YES!! BRAVO!

  20. #120
    On March 1st, 2009 at 12:42 pm, happyscrapper said:

    But that first hour was magic, wasn’t it? A dead serious call to action mixed with uplifting humor – Rush really hit his stride, and did you notice how young that crowd was? Talk about hope for the future!!!

    I had such a $%ip eating grin on my face through the whole thing! Just listening to truth being spoken to power was exhilirating. Rush has such a gift! I imagine that heads were exploding all over the country…that is, if any libs were actually brave enough to crawl out from under their rocks and into the light.

  21. #121
    On March 1st, 2009 at 12:43 pm, BrianNY said:

    And are we so afraid of Al Sharpton that preemptive apologies are necessary for the most innocent and benign cartoons and articles?

    Sounds like the girlie men at the WaPo are giving a lot of power to a community activist who himself referred to the first black mayor of NYC as an uncle Tom and a n****r whore turning tricks in City Hall.

    I don’t even pretend to follow the political rules established and violated by liberals anymore. They change to frequently.

  22. #122
    On March 1st, 2009 at 2:05 pm, BrianNY said:

    Whoops…s/b “They change too frequently.”

  23. #123
    On March 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm, sambo said:

    Two words: “Chocolate Jesus.” Bill Maher used them to describe Barack Obama.

    He will debate Ann Coulter in March…looking forward to that!

  24. #124
    On March 1st, 2009 at 5:24 pm, Wildcatter1980 said:

    Witness the tyranny of a minority over a cowering majority.

    Oy Vay!

  25. #125
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    On March 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm, sambo said:

    Two words: “Chocolate Jesus.” Bill Maher used them to describe Barack Obama.

    He will debate Ann Coulter in March…looking forward to that!

    I’d rather watch her give a suplex to that mellon head Joy Behar

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