We have been discussing the NY Post chimp cartoon over at the ROK Drop Forum and this manufactured outrage over the cartoon has now been picked up by the Japanese media:

The news anchors note it as a surprising example of how racism continues in America, even after the historic election of Barack Obama.

It’s kind of odd that the Japanese media picked up this story from the international press, but pretty much missed CNN/Guardian reports about a “racist” Japanese commercial being pulled from the airways last year for a similar offense.  [Japan Probe]

The usual suspects behind this manufactured outrage over the cartoon are the far left blogs, MSNBC, and race baiters like Al Sharpton.  The cartoon is clearly about the US Congress because the President did not write the stimulus bill, Congress did.  So obviously the cartoon is referring to Congress as acting as a bunch of monkeys while writing the stimulus bill, but people overseas don’t realize that Congress wrote the bill.  For all they know they think President Obama wrote the bill and that the cartoon is referring to him as this Fuji TV report demonstrates.

This only further perpetuates the unfair stereotype that many Americans don’t realize exists overseas that America is a racist country.  The election of President Obama surprised many people overseas who believe this stereotype, but now through this manufactured cartoon controversy they can feel comfortable with that stereotype once again.

Also I find it interesting that many of these far left blogs condemning this cartoon are the same people that were calling George Bush a chimp.  There is in fact an entire webpage dedicated to George Bush being a chimp.  Where is Al Sharpton’s outrage?

Too bad the monkey that was shot in Conneticut wasn’t a pet pig because the police shooting a pig in the cartoon would have been more appropriate to represent the US Congress with all the pork in the stimulus bill.