De Apers

Meet De Press "Where's the mainstream media?" I wondered. “If a Murdoch paper had done this, or even a comparably-sized, right wing newspaper had published the image, there would be outrage.”  "Where's the mainstream media?" I wondered.  If a Murdoch paper had done this, or even a comparably-sized, right-wing newspaper had published the image, there would be outrage. Cue the opprobrium from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, and The Guardian's Polly Toynbee. The headlines would read: 'The right-wing press wants to eat your babies' or 'How Rupert Murdoch hates all black people and their friends'.  But there was nothing. And that's not to say that people hadn't read it. I know for a fact that they had. Left-wing journalists had been in touch with me over the matter. I even e-mailed it to some. Still nothing. Could it be that they were too lazy to run the translation from Flemish to English?  Or was it because of this?: I concluded they were all going to let it slide, until The [London] Metro almost carbon copied my original article, and ran it for Monday morning.  Then came the Independent. Same sort of copy (no credit this way for breaking the story, of course). Then Breitbart London ran the fact that De Morgen had issued an apology. Admittedly, Belgian-based papers beat us to the scoop on this one. But wait... now suddenly everyone was on board. "Oh, this progressive outlet has seen the light, the error of its ways and are penitent sinners!" Cue the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, the New York Times and Talking Points Memo: [FULL] "The paper claimed this was 'satire', but we didn't buy it." a. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. b. The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature. 2. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity. A stupid assertion for De Morgen to even attempt since it begs the question," Just what Obama  ape-like attribute is it that you are attacking?"