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Posts tagged: Chimpanzee

Cheetah, 80, RIP

Johnny Weissmuller, right, as Tarzan, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, and Cheetah the chimpanzee, in a scene from the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man. A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee from the Tarzan movies of the 1930s died Saturday of kidney failure at age 80. Story here. (AP Photo/ho, File)

Question: Would you like to see a modern, action-hero, movie version of Tarzan, Jane, & Cheetah?

UI Columnist: Cartoon Not Racist

The NAACP claimed the chimpanzee was President Barack Obama, and the cartoon referred to the history of black people being compared to primates. Not only that, but the paper apparently called for the assassination of the president. Let’s think about this for a second. Obama did not write the stimulus bill — a congressional committee did. The chimpanzee was chosen only because of the story in Connecticut. According to the artist himself, if the chimp was meant to personify anyone, it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Even if it was supposed to be Obama, it is only fair considering the existence of bushorchimp.com. A serious problem is growing in the ongoing race debate. This cartoon had nothing to do with a single minority, and yet it has started a witch-hunt for the cartoonist and his boss, Rupert Murdoch. Is this what the next four years have in store? If an attack on a congressional bill is immediately interpreted as a racist attack on the president, then the voices of the opposition have successfully been silenced/Jeffrey Reznicek, UI Argonaut. More here.

Question: Do you think the controversial New York Post cartoon was a racist attack on President Barack Obama?

WND Poll: When Chimps Go Wild

Question: What did you take away from the attack by the pet chimp on a human?/WorldNetDaily

  • It was a freak event - one you would expect to see in the wild but not from a pet
  • It was a tragic inexplicable event - no one is to blame
  • The 9-1-1 operator did a great job working with a hysterical caller in a highly unusual situation
  • All we can do is pray for the poor woman injured in this unfortunate attack
  • Don’t try to make a pet out of a chimpanzee  (More below)
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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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