"Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and The New York Times have made submissions."
Rall said later in the piece:
The cartoonist concluded, in a comment e-mailed to E&P: "It's one thing to mock people for their opinions and quite another to make opinions up out of whole cloth and stuff them into a person's mouth. That's what Coulter has done here. She has absolutely no reason to believe that I am sympathetic to the Iranian government, a Holocaust revisionist or denier, or anti-Semitic. She has no reason to believe that I am less patriotic than any other American. Opposing the Bush administration does not make you anti-Semitic, pro-Iran, or anti-American, and no one has the right to equate them as she did before a large high-profile audience that included Dick Cheney. She has the right to attack me for what I say, do, and believe -- not to lie."
She did not say or suggest that Rall was a Holocaust revisionist or denier, or anti-Semitic or the rest. Rall could do a cartoon of some type on a holocaust theme to bash the Bush administration or generally be a jerk. Him taking Ann's statement badly does not miracle its content into something worthy of litigation.
"If I could think of a funny Holocaust comic, I'd draw one. So far, coming up blank. But hey, I'm only 42." -- Ted Rall, 02/13/2006