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Ted Rall Issues 'Retraction' of Iraq Cartoon
Editor and Publisher ^ | August 11, 2005 | E&P Staff

Posted on 08/11/2005 12:19:44 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Ted Rall has offered a "retraction" of his Aug. 4 cartoon that cited a 9,000 figure -- rather than the commonly used 1,800-plus -- for the number of American soldiers who have died in the Iraq war.

On Tuesday, Rall wrote in his blog: "I read a story that came off as possible, sourced it using previously reliable informants, and ended up doing a cartoon that I wouldn't have done had I known then what I know now. So this is a retraction of [the] cartoon. Did 9,000-plus soldiers get killed in Iraq? Maybe, maybe not. But as a cartoonist friend of mine points out: The relatives of those hidden 7,000 dead troops sure would be raising hell if the Pentagon were trying to hide them. ... The battery in my BS detector must have been running low last week."

The cartoon with the 9,000 figure (E&P Online, Aug. 8) showed a soldier -- as he helps carry a badly wounded man to a helicopter -- saying: "You don't count as war dead unless you die IN Iraq. If you die in Germany, or even on the plane leaving Baghdad, you're not counted." In the cartoon's final panel, the soldier urges the wounded man to try to stay alive at least until the helicopter takes off.

One of the sources used by Rall had been TBRnews.org.

Rall -- whose work is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate -- also wrote in his blog entry: "I draw more than 200 cartoons a year, but this has never happened to me before: commenting on a story that turns out to be, if not bogus, at least inadequately sourced. Of course, an editorial cartoonist is always commenting on other people's reporting, so he or she is always vulnerable to the possibility of being taken in... . Consider, for example, all the cartoonists who did cartoons about Saddam postulating what he'd do with his nuclear weapons!"


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bravosierra; fakebutaccurate; moonbat; neonazism; notalenthack; rall; tedrall; wariniraq
FYI: The source Rall used, TBRnews.org, is a neo-Nazi/Holocaust denial website.
1 posted on 08/11/2005 12:19:45 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

Rall's got a lot of batteries running low as it were...


2 posted on 08/11/2005 12:20:42 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Ted Rall, Michael Moore, Dean, Pelosi, the gifts that keep on giving. They can hire all the Lakoffs they want, but their true colors just keep shining through.

Lack of support for the Iraq War, perhaps. Support for these clowns, no way.


3 posted on 08/11/2005 12:22:39 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sounds like a classic cranial rectal inversion to me.


4 posted on 08/11/2005 12:23:59 PM PDT by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Ted Rall, the scum at the bottom of the barrel.
5 posted on 08/11/2005 12:24:15 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
On Tuesday, Rall wrote in his blog: "I read a story that came off as possible, sourced it using previously reliable informants, and ended up doing a cartoon that I wouldn't have done had I known then what I know now.

Well, hope springs eternal, eh Rall? Snort.

6 posted on 08/11/2005 12:24:40 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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Ted Rall, the Dan Brown of cartoonists.


7 posted on 08/11/2005 12:26:04 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: TheForceOfOne

Rall is filth. 100% pure, excrement!


8 posted on 08/11/2005 12:26:37 PM PDT by jw777
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The battery in my BS detector must have been running low last week."

Since Rall is filled with nothing but BS, his battery has never been charged - a POS of humanity

9 posted on 08/11/2005 12:27:52 PM PDT by michaelbfree
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To: West Coast Conservative

So what is he retracting?

A: The made up 9,000 figure dead.

B: His assertion in the "cartoon" that a soldier is not counted as dead, unless he dies "IN" Iraq.

Nice how the E&P runs the moronic commentary of the "cartoon," with nary a word to indicate that the commentator is wrong. Drudge reported on his show a few weeks ago the Iraqi death count included soldiers not in theater.


10 posted on 08/11/2005 12:33:16 PM PDT by youngjim (Time wounds all heels)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Don't care.

Rall is an uncartoonist in my book, and not worth my time.

11 posted on 08/11/2005 12:38:18 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

DU pushed the 9,000 number for a while as well.


12 posted on 08/11/2005 1:02:46 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sounds like he bought into Molly Ivan's articles. She has since also retracted her count of 9000.


13 posted on 08/11/2005 1:06:51 PM PDT by NImerc
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To: West Coast Conservative

Ted,

Please send a note to Cindy Sheheen that you're glad her son is dead and got what he deserved. That's what you have said about other Americans killed in Iraq. You have cheered for those who are doing the killing.

PS: that 9,000 number is way wrong. There have been many more than 9,000 mass graves found in Iraq containing Saddam's victims.


14 posted on 08/11/2005 1:24:29 PM PDT by feedback doctor (Going to war might mean terrorism, NOT going to war means slavery and death)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sorry the 9,000 figure didn't work out for you Ted. One can hope though right? We know you are disappointed that there aren't greater numbers to help your 'cause'.


15 posted on 08/11/2005 1:32:32 PM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: West Coast Conservative

Ted is just another POS....sigh..


16 posted on 08/11/2005 1:49:16 PM PDT by Getsmart64 (..)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Quotes from Rall's source:

"The educated rumor is that the actual death toll is in excess of 7,000."

"The DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate almost 9,000 dead, over 16,000 seriously wounded (This figure is now over 24,000 Ed)"

"educated rumor"? What the hell's an educated rumor other than whacko blather and spittle? Quietly circulated DoD lists. Where are these lists being kept and if its so quiet how come scum like you "know" about it? (Play them song from Twilight Zone here)


17 posted on 08/11/2005 2:10:00 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: tallhappy
Rall's got a lot of batteries running low as it were...

He's lying. He has hasn't replaced the batteries because the din was keeping him away from his drawing table.

18 posted on 08/13/2005 10:00:48 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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