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Feb 19 2009 12:56pm EDT

Prediction: 'NY Post' Fires Editor Over Chimp 'Toon

New York Post editorial cartoonist Sean Delonas has drawn plenty of offensive panels over the years, but Michael Wolff thinks yesterday's -- featuring a dead chimpanzee that may or may not have been meant to symbolize Barack Obama -- will have big-time consequences. That's because Post owner Rupert Murdoch, upon the workings of whose mind Wolff considers himself something of an expert, is an Obamaphile.

"Murdoch, I can make an educated guess, is livid," writes Wolff. "And Col Allan is shortly on his way back to Australia."

Bear in mind this is the same Michael Wolff who predicted that Newsweek will be out of business by the end of the year and The New York Times will follow before long. The man likes to make splashy bets.

Personally, I strongly doubt Allan's going anywhere, and if he does, it won't have anything to do with that cartoon, which was too nonsensical to take seriously. Murdoch may be drifting to the left a bit, but at age 77 he's a little old for a sudden conversion to political correctness.

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