It is no surprise that the New York Post has taken a page from fellow Fox team player Bill O'Reilly in the non-artful realm of the non-apology apology.

Amid picketing and the angry response to the tasteless cartoon regarding the gunning down of a chimpanzee the Post has issued an "apology" on its own unique terms that smacks hard of a non-apology, to wit, an editorial on the Post's website was "meant to mock" the stimulus bill promoted by President Obama but "to those who were offended by the image, we apologize."

Actually, who were the critics, and were they included in the apology?  The editorial asserts that the image was, in the words of MSNBC, "exploited by its longtime antagonists."  

The editorial further asserts that those people who had longstanding differences with the Post saw the cartoon "as an opportunity for payback."  These purported mischief makers were labeled "opportunists" alongside the gritty pronouncement, "To them, no apology is due."