Stupids and Cartoons

There is major buzz on the blogosphere about the New York Post chimp-stimulus cartoon. The very black people are seeing all kinds of racist connotations in the imagery. Those not so black are struggling to read cartoonist Sean Delona's mind and decipher what he might have meant by the cartoon that is neither funny nor informative.

If you are not up to date, here's the beef. In Connecticut, one Stupid decided a while back that all the dogs in the pound were not good enough pets. The cats wouldn't do either. Too small, way not scary. So she got herself a chimp. You read that right. One of those large monkeys each of which is stronger than five men (some reputable scientists says this, not me). Everything is fine and dandy for a while until the other day when the chimp suddenly comes down with a case of epiphany. Finally it realized it was a chimp and it did what all other chimps are trained by nature to do. It mauled the Stupid's friend, whereby a cop came over and shot the monkey. After all, we have to keep the foodchain intact here people!

At about the same time as the chimp was being a chimp and not a domesticated simian, the first black president of these United States was signing his stimulus bill into law. Enough said.

Enter Sean Delona and a deadline to deliver an editorial cartoon. How else could he combine the two biggest news together but to have the policeman shoot a chimp and the other say... You get the picture. Now who is more Stupid, the cartoonist who did not have two brain cells to string together or an entire editorial team out of which not one single person saw the racist undertones of this cartoon?

Here at Stupid Patrol we do not pass judgement, we just have too many Stupid Badges to hand out and for us, the more the merrier. So here's to the New York Post. A Stupid Badge that's all yours. And if you decide to draw a cartoon about me, the chimp would not be allegorical. I am one.