Jim Treacher gives his Top 10 Reasons President Barack H. Obama Is Nothing Like Travis the Chimp. I’ll just give you one and make you click for the rest:
5. Obama takes more long-term approach to destroying people’s lives.
I think it’s time this country had an honest conversation about what a racist Jim Treacher is.
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I denounce both Jim, you and myself.
Techie (6b5d8d) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:22 amThey had one of those conversations about race the other day.
An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.
The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, which read “Abort Obama, not the unborn.”
Chip Harrison said he was driving to work when a police car followed him for several miles and then signaled for him to pull over.
I think the risk of aborting Obama is over but you can’t be too careful.
Mike K (2cf494) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:27 amTravis weighs in:
Pablo (99243e) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:30 amOh, y’all are just so denounced! Anyone who ever referred to a President of the United States in terms that could ever, even remotely, compare him to a chimpanzee must be a total racist!
Chimpy McHalliburton BushCo (3e4784) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:48 amI hate to be a wet blanket, and I understand the lighthearted nature of this and Jim’s posts, and I accept the license taken by the political cartoon, and I acknowledge the insanity of the racist accusations associated with it that have invited this sarcasm, and I bridle at the attitude that The One must not be criticized;
But a woman was horribly mauled in Connecticut. The chimp is not funny. Not for me, not at all.
There, I said it and I’m not sorry.
Amphipolis (fdbc48) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:53 amTreach – I laughed. I cried. I denounce you. And myself. And anyone so goddam dumb that does not know that Pelosi/Reid wrote the “stimulus”. Allegedly.
JD (ee54a5) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:57 amThis conversation doesn’t help my kids.
carlitos (6128f3) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:58 amI feel the same way as Amphipolis. The mauling was a tragedy, and inappropriate for the cartoon.
I don’t think it was racist — just in bad taste.
Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 2/19/2009 @ 8:22 amBradley, that is a terrible pun. I denounce you.
Mike K (2cf494) — 2/19/2009 @ 8:37 amI’m as racist as the next person, but the cartoon sucked totally. And Jim’s post is not funny. Sorry, Jim.
Let me explain. People who do give a shit about animals, know the difference between wild animals and domesticated animals and pet animals. All three different kinds. Now, Travis was a wild animal. You can take the chimp out of the jungle but you cannot take the jungle out of the chimp.
And for the racist connotation, just substitute one word in the last sentence above.
nk (e8cae4) — 2/19/2009 @ 8:52 amTravis performed like a Chicago pro. He should be Junior’s cabinet. Except he’s dead.
Vermont Neighbor (afceb8) — 2/19/2009 @ 9:04 amP.S. There might be four different kinds. Pigs are not wild, domesticated or pets but they are a staple food.
nk (e8cae4) — 2/19/2009 @ 9:11 am11. Travis takes Xanax. Baracky induces the need in others to do so.
JD (ee54a5) — 2/19/2009 @ 9:18 amI could no more denounce that cartoon than I could my spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright, or my benefactor, Tony Rezko or my pal Father Pfleger or my typical white woman Grandmama or my friend Rod Blagojevich or my Treasury Secretary Tim “light fingers” Geithner or……..
gus (36e9a7) — 2/19/2009 @ 9:24 am^ thank you.
Vermont Neighbor (afceb8) — 2/19/2009 @ 9:28 amTRAVIS WILL ADMIT HE WAS BORN IN KENYA….. BARRY SOETORO OBAMA WON’T
Kenya (7fbc1c) — 2/19/2009 @ 10:23 am#1 We can get a copy of Travis’ birth certificate!
TimothyJ (8fb937) — 2/19/2009 @ 2:35 pmu have to call a spade a spade no mater what office he holds not to mention elected officals are not ranked very high in our society
dennis r meridith (54dee2) — 2/19/2009 @ 3:18 pmUh, thanks dennis. Obama is ranked pretty high though, ya know?
carlitos (6128f3) — 2/19/2009 @ 3:25 pmFunny “reasons”, enjoyed reading them… but the chimp analogy is going to ignite a firestorm in the US like the Danish Mohammed cartoons did in Europe.
Mark Turner (165605) — 2/19/2009 @ 3:45 pmObama’s approval ratings are impressive — but most presidents (including Bush, Clinton) have high ratings in their first few months. I attribute Obama’s more to his personal charisma than political agenda or demonstrated performance.
Mark Turner (1983ab) — 2/19/2009 @ 3:47 pmTravis the Chimp: not funny.
Here is something that is funny (although I think I heard something inappropriate at the end of the news report):
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/this_has_been_a_fox_news_alert_109151.asp?c=rss
Fair and balanced?
Eric Blair (ec334b) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:14 pmI think the implication of the cartoon is really that a chimp could have come up with a better “stimulus” package than congress did. Although, I agree it was probably imprudent to use that analogy given the racial sensitivities in the US today.
Mark Turner (6c8813) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:31 pmI think people are taking this cartoon thing to far GIVE ME A BREAK!!! If that’s the case all of us should be MAD AS HELL because there are alot of people who think the “ENTIRE” human race comes from monkeys. There is more important things to be concerned about!!!! GET A LIFE and get out there and do Gods work instead of the “devils”!!!!!!
June (949e17) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:34 pmI’m thinking that the new visitors today are taking multiple forms, and I mean that they seem to be doing impersonations of certain types of posters. Someone may want to compare IPs here or there if this idea interests them…
carlitos (6128f3) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:39 pmCarlitos:
I can’t speak for anyone else here, but I’m posting from Singapore. I’m a US citizen, born in raised in the US, in case you are wondering.
Mark Turner (65a7f1) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:43 pmWhy Obama is like Travis the Chimp: They are both the ojects of a paraphilia.
nk (e8cae4) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:45 pmNo, not at all. Love the chili crab!
carlitos (6128f3) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:46 pmI think the implication of the cartoon is really that a chimp could have come up with a better “stimulus” package than congress did. Although, I agree it was probably imprudent to use that analogy given the racial sensitivities in the US today.
Mark, there is not much concrete difference between you and Al Sharpton. The reason why we’re in the fix we are with respect ro race is precisely because everyone allows themselves to be cowed by the racial hucksters.
At a some point the blame for this starts to lie more with the “everyone” than with the racial hucksters. They’re just doing what they can get away with. What’s eveyone elses excuse?
Subotai (b01fd4) — 2/19/2009 @ 4:53 pm“Mark, there is not much concrete difference between you and Al Sharpton”
Subotai – Actually, I believe there to be a major difference. Sharpton and his ilk would openly complain that the cartoon IS racist, in the style of a demagogue, to create public attention for themselves and their cause. All I am personally saying is that the “chimp” symbolism is imprudent in that it may be patently offensive to some people in the US — particularly the likes of Sharpton and company. Just as the Danish Mohammed cartoons in Europe caused an unexpected and unintended uproar over ethnicity, so is this cartoon doing so in the US.
Mark Turner (952f13) — 2/19/2009 @ 5:02 pmMaybe the cartoonist is trying to have a “frank” conversation about race.
Patricia (89cb84) — 2/19/2009 @ 7:05 pm>But a woman was horribly mauled in Connecticut. The chimp is not funny
Yeah, it is. I love it (in a grim, black humor kind of way [is ‘black humor’ racist?])when treating animals as though they were human backfires.
Barry (f397dc) — 2/20/2009 @ 4:02 amI want a new car, a new house, free health care and respect. I don’t want to pay taxes or insurance on my guns……….Gimme ‘change’….
krusher (b82cca) — 2/20/2009 @ 6:01 amOkay, how about New Hampshire?
BTW, you might want to stay away from the Darwin Awards.
Jim Treacher (796deb) — 2/20/2009 @ 8:03 amAn important part of proving that the opposition are racists is of course faking the evidence.
SPQR (72771e) — 2/20/2009 @ 8:29 amThat is a good catch, SPQR. I watched the video yesterday and thought I heard that last bit, but was not sure.
We have here a case of “metanarrative.” If the Left thinks the Right would say such things, then such propaganda is no big deal.
It never occurs to them that accepting such fakery makes it easier for their own opponents to do the same to then.
All journalists—internet or otherwise—should vigorously oppose that kind of propagandizing. It’s about more than partisanship.
Eric Blair (ec334b) — 2/20/2009 @ 8:48 am