Shoot the Chimp

As bad as it gets. That someone would “own” a “pet” chimpanzee is bad enough. That the animal would get sick, so sick that it would attack and seriously maul its owner’s friend is far, far worse. That police would have to come and shoot the poor thing dead compounds it into a grizzly cartoon of evil. And then there is the victim, a person who has had her life forever changed in a moment, and perhaps may not even live through this event.

THEN. Along comes Murdoch the Great, King of News, who contorts the issue, even trivalizes the issues involved, and compares it to the new president’s economic recovery plan. Of course Murdoch probably hadn’t noticed that the president is a black man, and he certainly could not have known that white racists for years have contemptuously compared black men with monkeys and chimpanzees. So we are to believe that Murdoch really didn’t know what he was doing? That it wasn’t his problem because he didn’t approve the cartoon? That he is now sorry that some people were so stupid that they were offended by the cartoon that he didn’t know he had published? Now - if ANYBODY believes that - then that’s news.

Some say Murdoch likes Obama. That’s too bad. Last thing Barrack needs right now is a 200 pound sick chimp that occasionally freaks out and is not responsible for what he does.