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NAACP RALLY at FOX 25 Boston

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Boston Branch of The NAACP is having a rally at Fox 25 (WFXT-TV ) because they are outraged by the recent, racially insentitive cartoon image in the New York Post . The Rally will at 10:30 am Thursday 2.26.09 ( at Fox 25 dedham MA ) . Fox Corporation owns both The New York Post and WFXT-TV ( Fox 25 ). The Boston Branch will join over 70 other branches across the country
in delivering letters to Fox Station Managers asking them to write a letter
to Fox Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch supporting the NAACP's demands. The NAACP is calling for the catoonist ( Sean Delonus ) and The New York Post editor-in-chief (Col Allen ) to be fired, as well as more diversity in the news rooms of Fox News and The New York Post.
 
Picketing the Fox station is a bit of a stretch, isn't it? Besides, I thought extortion was supposed to be illegal.

When you become president, you become a target for lots of nasty rhetoric and the subject of many unflattering images. Whether the president was the actual subject of this image was actually debatable. Some say that the "chimp" could have been Pelosi. Or congress. Or even just the concept of the stimulus bill.

Either way, what goes around comes around. George W. Bush was literally characterized as a monkey in political cartoons hundreds of times. And worse. He ignored it, as did his supporters. What's good for him is good for Obama. Sadly, that sort of thing is part of the job description. And, to his credit, Obama hasn't bothered with this so-called controversy. If there are going to be protests every time someone posts a critical effigy that may be directly or indirectly tied to this administration, it will get old very fast.

Funny how Sharpton, the NAACP and company had no problem when various Washington Post cartoons lampooning Condoleeza Rice as a parrot (with big lips), as Aunt Jemima and as a "mammy" didn't elicit similar protests at Post-Newsweek properties. Funny indeed. I guess the standards of outrage and "insensitivity" only apply for some and not for all.
 
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