[nagdu] New York Post Cartoon Has Paterson's Seeing Eye Dog Resigning

[Toni Eames]

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><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/new-york-post-cartoon-has_n_487865.html>New 
>York Post Cartoon Has Paterson's Seeing Eye Dog Resigning
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>First Posted: 03- 5-10 03:29 PM   |   Updated: 03- 5-10 05:10 PM
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>The New York Post cartoonist who made headlines for his infamous 
>depiction of the author of the stimulus (presumably President Obama) 
>as a crazed ape is stirring up controversy again with a work that 
>makes fun of New York Gov. David Paterson's blindness.
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>This past Thursday, Sean Delonas 
><http://www.nypost.com/opinion/cartoons/delonas.htm>drew a cartoon 
>that showed Paterson's seeing-eye dog entering his office with a 
>letter of resignation -- signed with a paw print. In the background 
>Paterson is seen crying and saying, "Not You Too!!!"
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>It's a provocative swipe -- designed, of course, as a commentary on 
>all the allies ditching the governor as he becomes immersed in 
>ethics scandals. But it can also be interpreted as a cheap shot at 
>Paterson's disability. The first legally blind governor to hold the 
>office of governor, Paterson doesn't in fact require the aid of a 
>seeing-eye dog to get around.
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>Still, this is far from Delonas's most envelope-pushing work. The 
><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/new-york-post-chimp-carto_n_167841.html>Obama-as-a-dead-ape 
>depiction was widely panned as offensive if not racist, and 
><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/shocking-allegations-levi_n_352314.html>spurred 
>much controversy and dissension within the Post's newsroom. And in 
>2001, Delonas depicted then New York City mayoral candidate Fernando 
>Ferrer kissing the butt of Al Sharpton in a cartoon which was widely condemned.