Post drops 'stridently liberal' cartoonist (Ted Rall dropped)

World Net Daily ^ | November 19, 2004

[The Loan Arranger]

Ted Rall says D.C. paper depriving readers while left under attack. The Washington Post's online edition has dropped the controversial political cartoons of Ted Rall, a self-described liberal who has been criticized many times over the past year for racist and insensitive attacks on conservatives.

Rall told Editor & Publisher he believes the Universal Features Syndicate cartoon was let go because of Rall's Nov. 4 offering depicting 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 the industry publication.

But WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Doug Feaver said the decision was based on his "cumulative" work.

"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people. We decided at the end of the day that it just did not fit the tone we wanted at WashingtonPost.com."

[The Loan Arranger]

"Interesting"? Is that what you call it? http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/ Interesting isn't the word that comes to mind.

[MikefromOhio]

wow the fat lady is singing for some of the idiot liberal cartoonists as well...

if we could only get rid of a few anchor heads as well...

[thag]

...and good riddance to bad rubbish. The WaPo is my hometown paper and overall it's pretty good but Rall has been a disgrace to his profession and Oliphant of late ain't far behind.

thag

[Conservomax]

"Very interesting work"

Translation - it's not funny or that intelligent but it's audaciously and one-sidedly idiotic enough to get the vocal minority in an uproar if we trash him.

[asp1]

WaPo let Rall go? Oh gee, and he was so clever too.

[asp1]

oops! forgot the sarcasm off now.

[Conservomax]

At least in this one, Rall is barking up the right tree - unfortunately he's barking at the wrong cat.

[SunnySide]

Rall is just too hate filled. After a while it gets really tiresome and dull. Ba bye Rall, you friggin loser.

[6SJ7]

Rall aims not to be amusing, but to be offensive.

[Smacky]

Yay. Excuse me while I do the 'good riddance' happy dance.

Lew-Hew Zer-Her.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

His insipid attempts at humor.

His crude, almost chimp-like scrawls, which he laughably defines as "drawing."

His shallow, child-like conception of abstract political concepts.

Yup, it's official!

I think we've found our new chairman for the DNC.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Precisely!

[asp1]

LOL!

[Conservomax]

His shallow, child-like conception of abstract political concepts.

Well put, I was trying to define what aggrevated me most about this dickhead - that's it.

Wasn't he a chemistry major at Columbia? I wonder if he is stupid or knows that he is over simplifying things and doesn't care because he gets his name in the paper - and not just as a by-line.

Methinks it be the latter.

[Grampa Dave]

Rall is just the tip of the ice berg of racist leftist pseudo cartoonists.

We can add Oliphant, Toles, Trudeau and another half dozen or more of the these no talent hit masters of the left who should be pulled from any newspaper and reserved for x rated lunatic lefty porn sites.

[Conservomax]

If your into dark nihilistic humor (like Rall pretends to be)THIS is what you'd call a funny comic strip:

The Perry Bible Fellowship

[marvlus]

Ted Rall - the angry white man! (and an idiot, too)

[YankeeFan]

Apparently, the press will only call you a liberal if you "self identify" yourself as one.

Everyone else - Arlen Spector for example - is a "moderate."

[FreedomNeocon]

Good... I hope he goes broke and has to live with the fact he is broke because NOBODY LIKES HIM.

What a complete, and utter waste this man is.