Anyway, this paper has chosen to do a pictorial of the last 6 presidents including the Obamas. These are before and afters BUT all presidents and wives have real pictures except of course for the Obamas. Phillip Sciarello, publisher and part owner defended the decision to publish the photos of the Obamas as Sanford and Son characters. I find it in poor taste, as well as highly offensive and probably racist too!
What is wrong with ignorant people?? Didn't they learn from the other offensive pictures from past newspapers??
The controversy prompted the Brookhaven town board to remove one of the Messenger's sister publications, the Brookhaven Review, as an official newspaper, meaning it will no longer publish town government legal notices.
"The reference to racial stereotypes is where the line was crossed," Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko told Newsday in Wednesday's editions. Lesko, a Democrat, did not immediately return a call for comment.
A Suffolk County legislator, DuWayne Gregory of Amityville, said he will propose a resolution to drop the Messenger as an official county paper at next week's meeting of the Legislature.
Hazel N. Dukes, president of the state NAACP conference, said in a statement Wednesday that the county should immediately pull advertising from any publication that ran the photo.
"It is simply shocking and outrageous that such a blatantly racist ad would run in any paper, much less an official paper of Suffolk County," Dukes said. "New Yorkers of all races and ethnicity are disgusted by it and reject it."
Tracey Edwards, the NAACP's Long Island regional director, described the portrayal of the Obamas as "despicable and disrespectful. If this was intended as satire, it misses the mark."
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Well, look at it this way At least there has been a loud protest. A few months ago there would have been none. Still it is absolutely outrageous.
Punishment is in order. It's all about accountability.
We would not be seeing as much of this if the dims would have held the bush's accountable for their war for lies and all the other treasonous shit they did.
Isn't it so sick???! My God people are so damn ignorant, this isn't the least bit funny whether you are an Obama supporter or not!
I agree with One Fly.
I heard they are going to apologize and retract.
The paper has lost accounts already.
Who are these people? What is their agenda?
Oh but he is sorry if it offended anyone... NOW, after the blowback from it.. What a douche..
From what I was hearing on MSNBC, there are very few people who didn't think it was in poor taste at the least and said they saw no satire in it if that's what he was aiming for...
It is disgusting... but of course he is a conservative and it is a conservative paper.. Do we really expect better from them?
fuck you lisa.
This is blatant racism and in very poor taste. What if we published an article with GWB as a monkey and Laura as a stepford wife? I'd be offended by that too.
Glad to see you're taking care of lisa - she doesn't contribute anything of substance to the conversation.
I used to live in Setauket when I was younger which is not that far from Smithtown, but that was before I paid attention to politics.
lisa said "grow a spine, it's no big deal", I couldn't help but to reply...
Like the rapist thinks "she wanted it", the racist thinks racism "is just humor".
Lisa G., you might not want to go through my catalog of Chimpy pictures ;)
But caricaturing Chimpy as such isn't racist; let's face it, the moronic monkey LOOKS like a moronic monkey. This picture, however, is intentionally, blatantly racist, and beyond the pale.
I love it. Twenty-First Century racists get all mealy-mouthed when called on their racism. Satire my ass.
How many times have I heard conservatives accuse liberals of injecting race into everything? And yet it is members of their clan who send around racist photos of the Obamas and publish in their little regional papers, blatantly racist jokes and photos.
Why?
Because. They. Are. Racists.
I've seen too much of it over the last 15 months, and it makes me sick.
The GOP sold its sold to the devil to get the bigot votes.
I don't know if you've seen this update in the NY DAILY NEWS...
"NAACP New York State May 5, 2010: Hazel N. Dukes, President of the NAACP Conference in New York State, today called on Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to immediately pull all Suffolk County sponsored advertising from the Smithtown Messenger and its sister papers after the papers ran a racially motivated advertisement mocking President and Mrs. Obama. The ad depicts before and after photos of recent presidents; however, for the Obama's, while the first picture shows President and Mrs. Obama hugging, the second picture is from the old TV show "Sanford and Son" showing Sanford's sister-in-law Aunt Esther arguing with Redd Foxx.
Suffolk County currently designates the Smithtown Messenger as an official paper, spending more than $50,000 last year on advertising in the Messenger.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/05/li-newspaper-thinks-obamas-san.html#ixzz0nCQdiGc3"
The bottom line....race is the Third Rail in this country. When someone portrays the first African American President and First Lady as bottom rung of the economic ladder types like Fred Sanford and Aunt Esther there's going to be pushback. Some may say "lighten up".
I say, just don't go there.
it fails on so many levels. it's not funny, and it makes no sense. we haven't heard anything about any problems in the obama marriage, so what exactly is it satirizing? racism is the only explanation for it.
Obama has committed a crime so serious thet the GOP can never forgive him for it. He had the audacity to be elected while black.
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