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2004-11-19 Fifth Column

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Posted by .com 2004-11-19 01:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Golf clap .com? - more like a 'Yee-hah!'.

This is what he wrote;

Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. "The idea was to draw an analogy to the electorate -- in essence, the idiots are now running the country," he told E&P.

Very nice - taking the mick out of mentally handicapped kids. Lot of class there. Wanker.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-11-19 5:54:36 AM|| 2004-11-19 5:54:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Tony (UK) - They only rated a *golf clap* cuz it took them so long to see what everyone else on the planet could see Day One: Rall's a talentless sick fucktard who should be introduced to some of Pat Tilman's SF friends from Afghanistan, not paid for his twisted bile. Just my take, I don't have any strong feelings about it. ;-)

Posted by .com 2004-11-19 5:58:56 AM|| 2004-11-19 5:58:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think there's a few 9/11 widows and orphans who'd like to take the boots to Ted's head as well. Sick lowlife fuck

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-19 8:30:07 AM|| 2004-11-19 8:30:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sent the NYT an e-mail a year or so re: one of Rall's more obscene "jokes". Asked them if they were all insane or just putting out Iraqi PR. Amazingly they wrote back to me....agreed they were all insane. Nice to see they dropped him some time ago.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-11-19 11:25:46 AM|| 2004-11-19 11:25:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 From linked article, Ted speaks: "The analogy obviously fell flat, or overshadowed the main point of the cartoon," Rall said of his Nov. 4 drawing. "More importantly, I forgot the editorial cartoonist's obligation to comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable."

This is from the guy who once drew a comic that accused 9-11 widows of profiteering from their husbands deaths. I guess they were too 'comfortable' for Rall.

Posted by Pat Phillips 2004-11-19 12:34:12 PM|| 2004-11-19 12:34:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 A friend of mine, (Euro) reads WAPO and once told me she really likes Tedd Rall. And I thought to myself - wow! I never knew you were such a hateful person...who'd have guessed? Never looked at her the same way since.

Posted by 2b 2004-11-19 12:37:09 PM|| 2004-11-19 12:37:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Who's Ted Rall? Is he related to that idiotic Canadian woman?

Posted by lex 2004-11-19 12:39:22 PM|| 2004-11-19 12:39:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 He's a political cartoonist who gets lots of attention by drawing really offensive cartoons. The Michael Moore of the cartooning world.

Posted by 2b 2004-11-19 1:05:38 PM|| 2004-11-19 1:05:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Another reason to smack down the MSM.

Posted by lex 2004-11-19 1:07:46 PM|| 2004-11-19 1:07:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 As a reader of the WaPo, I can add another thing about Ted Rall.

He can't draw.

This would seem, at least to me, a real problem for a cartoonist, but what do I know.

Posted by mhw 2004-11-19 1:29:58 PM|| 2004-11-19 1:29:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Reason # 47.

Posted by lex 2004-11-19 1:36:00 PM|| 2004-11-19 1:36:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 and he's not funny. Maybe we need a word for people whose cartoons are offensive - but not funny - crudetoonists, carspewists, ....

Posted by 2b 2004-11-19 1:40:02 PM|| 2004-11-19 1:40:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 That's the problem, he's just not funny and his insight is gathered from the BBC.

I hate to admit this....
But I'm reading the WaPo more and more.

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-19 2:25:09 PM|| 2004-11-19 2:25:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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