"Little Albert" Monroe, an orangutan living in Schenectady, New York, is protesting the 2008 election results by publicly peeling all his bananas upsidedown from now on or until Barack Obama steps down and Chongo Chimp is inaugurated as president.

Little Albert believes that the election was stolen from Chongo by a conspiracy on the part of the "corporate media" and the Democratic and Republican parties. "They fear what could happen if a chimp got to be president of the USA," says Monroe, "so they fixed the election and gave it to Obama. That stinks. I am peeling all my bananas upsidedown from now on as a protest against this blatant attack upon our traditions of liberty and freedom. It's really awkward and uncomfortable to peel a banana upsidedown, and that symbolizes the awkward and uncomfortable position that the whole nation has been put in by this botched election."

Many of Little Albert's friends and neighbours feel that his protest is going way too far. "It's really disturbin' to me to see someone peeling his banana upsidedown," says Oboe Wilks, a howler monkey who used to buy magazines and smokes at the Treehouse Variety Store, Monroe's longtime family business in downtown Schenectady. "It ain't right to do that if you ask me. I am not givin' my business to Little Albert any more, not till he goes back to peelin' his bananas the proper American way."

Members of the press met with Chongo Chimp in Chicago today to get his reaction to the situation. The former candidate was quoted as saying, "I cannot support what this guy Little Albert is doin'. It's disrespectful to America, disrespectful to president-elect Obama who needs our support now, and disrespectful to apes in general. I am embarrassed by what he is doin' supposedly on my behalf and I disavow it. Only a complete idiot would peel a banana upsidedown. You do that, and it's just gonna fall on the ground most likely. Next, I expect he'll be peelin' it from the wrong end too, as well as upsidedown. What a moron this guy must be."