I think the entire cartoon wasn't meant to be racist in the slightest, but that the NY Post is kind of stupid for not really thinking about what the drawing was.
I believe that the picture was maybe leaning towards a stimulus plan so easy/so at fault that a "monkey could have made it." I think the mistake leans fully on the Post for making a connotation that harsh as is, but the fact that Obama is a black man probably should have ran past the mind of the editor before it was put in. Its a representation of the Post as a whole, and I can guarantee there were people on the staff who said "We probably shouldn't run this." Maybe it has to do with the decrease in paper publications as a whole. Maybe they were really out looking for a scandal. What'll generate readership? Controversy sells just as much as sex sells, and the Post is most likely well aware of this fact.
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