# "Obama is a chimp" Tea Party Republican is sorry if anyone was offended by her harmless satire. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320 "2011-04-30T21:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/121 "2011-05-02T02:46:14Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Nobody even brought up the lesbian thing in 8 years. It was virtually unmentioned. A lesbian? I though she was married to George Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/122 "2011-05-02T02:54:35Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > No. Your explanation is incoherent and unacceptable. **Hilarity** , it is difficult to believe that you are unfamiliar with the historical racism and denigration inherent in associating black people with, and caricaturing them as, apes. However, even if this is the case, it has been explained to you a number of times in a number of ways by various posters in this thread. That you continue to assert an equivalence that doesn’t exist is disappointing. Back to the OP As others have said, Marilyn Davenport is upset because she was caught. She was stupid enough to believe her email message would only be viewed by the like-minded, which I find amazing, and is just one indication that she knew full well the material was racist in nature and intent. That she attempted to hide behind her Christianity is no surprise, and smacks of the ignorance and desperation exhibited by those who presumptuously believe they are not subject to the same standards of comportment as those not in their circle. What I also find amazing is that the compulsion some conservative adults have to distribute racist content via email is apparently as uncontrollable as a post-pubescent teen aged boy’s compulsion to masturbate. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/123 "2011-05-02T11:17:51Z")
I’m hating like a motherfuck! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/124 "2011-05-02T11:30:52Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/125 "2011-05-02T13:19:43Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I come from a long line of people portrayed as dumb and stubborn. Run with it. So your ancestors were all Republicans? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/126 "2011-05-02T13:31:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > When the subject of Palin assassination jokes was raised, it was about Sarah Palin posting pictures of Democratic politicians with targets on them along with maps showing where they lived. Then when somebody actually went ahead and shot one of her targets, Palin claimed that it had been intended as a joke not a serious call for assassinations. Ah. I know there was an attempt to spin the target symbols as “surveyor’s marks,” but don’t recall her claiming the map itself was a “joke.” (Which strike me as contradictory explanations, unless there’s a rich tradition of surveying humor I’m unaware of…) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/127 "2011-05-02T13:41:40Z")
“Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/128 "2011-05-02T14:58:16Z")
Oh, man that was a classic! Talk about a laff riot! Wish I still had my copy… My favorite part was where she and her apprentice got lost, but Ethel said she wasn’t worried because she still had one more lath. All she had to do was pound the lath into the ground and within a half hour an equipment operator would come along and run over it! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/129 "2011-05-02T15:04:18Z")
Missed the edit: Full disclosure: I just stole that joke from a message board called Geocaching dot com. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/130 "2011-05-02T17:24:43Z")
Why? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/131 "2011-05-02T17:31:36Z")
Unlikely to want it back, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/132 "2011-05-02T18:28:29Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Not to excuse the Tea Party folks who did this, but did anyone ever apologize for calling Bush a ‘chimp’? Or for the various pictures of him in chimp like poses, or photo-shopped as a chimp or with chimps? Why were those ok (and considered both funny AND relevant on this board), but this isn’t? Bush earned that (and more) through his behaviour and via caricature. It had nothing to do with race. The guy looks chimpish. If I were to caricature Obama, I’d go with a Frankenstein monster or maybe a Great Dane. Teabagger epithets are pretty clearly racially based. That’s the difference. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/133 "2011-05-02T19:21:19Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > If your going to make racist pictures, you could at least spend some time to make the photoshopping looks decent. That looks like something someone did with 30-year-old technology. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/134 "2011-05-02T20:59:14Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > That looks like something someone did with 30-year-old technology. 30 years ago, they had scissors and scotch tape, which looks about right. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/135 "2011-05-02T21:28:17Z")
Daguerreoshop. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/136 "2011-05-03T01:26:23Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > That looks like something someone did with 30-year-old technology. Whats the point? If they were not well done they don’t count? You thought it was racist, but look how poorly done it was. Oh Ok. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/137 "2011-05-03T01:29:08Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Whats the point? If they were not well done they don’t count? > You thought it was racist, but look how poorly done it was. Oh Ok. I don’t think that was his point. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/138 "2011-05-03T02:41:17Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I don’t think that was his point. He did not have one. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/139 "2011-05-03T02:57:49Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > He did not have one. You might be right, but if that’s the case, then it’s not really fair to imply, as you did, that he was somehow excusing the racism just because the artwork was poor. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320/140 "2011-05-03T04:36:00Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > It’s not funny because of past racial stereotypes about black people when it’s done to Obama. Past? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-chimp-tea-party-republican-is-sorry-if-anyone-was-offended-by-her-harmless-satire/580320.md?page=8)