...he shouldn't have. He apologized because one of his newspapers, the NY Post, ran a cartoon which likened those who wrote the recent stimulus bill to the crazy chimp shot recently by police.
Opponents claimed the cartoon in a racist manner was likening President Obama to the chimp. So after days of the liberal outrage machine running full tilt, Murdoch today apologized.
He shouldn't have. The cartoon in question took a shot, not at President Obama, but at those who wrote the "stimulus" bill, none of whom were African-American. (most agree the bill was written first and mainly by Nancy Pelosi and her comrades in the House.) And it was suggesting that the legislation, jammed with all kinds of porkish spending plans all over the lot, was thus full of craziness...like the chimp.
There's no "racism" there. But, as I feared, a resurgent liberalism, with an African-American president in the White House, would not hesitate to brand its and Obama's opponents as racists whenever possible, in order to silence them. This was just round one. There will be many more, I'm afraid. But let's not be cowed by any of it...
