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Had they gone with “Hu’s Your Daddy?” like I told them to, then the New York Post would not have been in hot water with the Asian-American community:

The Post’s offending headline, “WOK THIS WAY” — a word play on “walk this way” and the traditional Chinese sauté pan — ran with a photo of President Bush tugging at the sleeve of Chinese President Hu Jintao at a White House event Thursday.

“It was racist and offensive because it takes the president of China and connects him to the stereotype of a cook in a Chinese restaurant,” said Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

“It’s just a clumsy attempt at a clever headline — a clumsy attempt at humor. But it’s not funny,” said Fung, who urged the Post to print an apology.

The Asian American Journalists Association also received calls about the headline — the third complaint about Post headlines in the past two weeks — prompting the group to refer the matter to its media watchdog committee.

“Individuals on the committee have expressed a range of concerns,” said Janice Lee, deputy executive director of the San Francisco-based group. Committee members felt the wording was “insulting” and “perpetuates the stereotype of all Asians as cooks in chop suey joints,” Lee said.