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Feb 20 2009 8:06am EDT

'NY Post' Apologizes: We're Sorry They Hate Us

Go buy a lottery ticket: The New York Post is apologizing for offending people.

Well, sort of. In an editorial titled "That Cartoon," the paper says it's sorry anyone might have gotten the idea that a Sean Delonas drawing referencing a recent chimp attack and the federal stimulus bill might have been meant as a racially-tinged slap at President Obama.

But in the same breath, the Post goes on to excoriate the "opportunists" -- are you listening, Al Sharpton? -- who have been leading the public outcry:

[T]here are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past -- and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.

To them, no apology is due.

Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.

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