Rall on the Berg Beheading (Yet another idiot heard from)

Patterico's Pontifications ^ | 5.12.04

[mhking]

It didn't take long for Ted Rall to weigh in with a predictably boneheaded comment on the beheading of Nicholas Berg. Rall quotes -- and mocks -- Bush Administration pronouncements on the Abu Ghraib scandal and the beheading of Berg. Rall then argues that if the beheading says anything about the true nature of the terrorists, then the Abu Ghraib scandal says something about the true nature of the American people. In Rall's twisted view, any contrary opinion reflects "cognitive dissonance."

Here is the beginning of Rall's post:

Cognitive Dissonance

"I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated. Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people."
—George W. Bush, May 4

"[The beheading of Nick Berg] shows the true nature of the enemies of freedom. They have no regard for the lives of innocent men, women and children."
—White House spokesman Scott McClellan, May 11

When we commit crimes, in other words, they're aberrations. When they commit them, they reveal exactly who they are and what they're about.

There I go again, talking treason!

No, Ted, this time you're just talking stupid.

By the way, Teddy-Boy is encouraging his readership to write MSNBC to support him. Accordingly, I am encouraging my readership to write MSNBC to denounce him.

Send your email to:

GeneralComments@feedback.msnbc.com with a copy to letters@msnbc.com.

Remember to be polite.

To write Rall directly, send an e-mail to chet@rall.com.

No threats. Let's demonstrate the true nature of the American people. Feel free to express your revulsion for his hateful ideas -- but do so in a civil and nonthreatening manner.

[breakem]

bumpable

[DaBroasta]

Isn't Ted Rall that Clintonian apologist that looks like a semi-flacid male erection without a condom on it?

[clintonh8r]

Remember to be polite.

I forgot. Sorry.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

That bast*rd Rall needs to be sent to Iraq and thrown to the jihadis. Oh, and the idiot's latest piece stinks anyway; I don't get the genius in it at all. Ho-hum.

[FormerACLUmember]

Rall is a ferocious enemy of the United States. He is a serial Fifth Columnist for each and every anti-American fecal mass tht comes down the sewer pipe. Yet in a billion years he would never actually like in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, or any of his other beloved hell-holes he endlessly praises.

[MindBender26]

sent to msnbc tonight:

Ted Rall is a sick man who allows himself to make money by publicly gloating over the deaths of Mr. Tillman and Mr. Berg.

The only question for MSNBC is: will you help him in his efforts?

[jagrmeister]

Ted Rall is really not worth responding to. His work is only useful in showing the American people how mean-spirited and unpatriotic the Left is. Then the Left has to spend days apologizing for such behavior.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Brilliant reasoning - terrorists behead man - terrorists not necessarily all bad, 7 Americans abuse prisoners - all Americans bad. This is what he said is true if you say these guys represent terrorists. We're not saying all Arabs are bad because of the beheading, but he twists it to say that we would have to say that all Americans are bad because of Al Ghirab if we condemn the beheading? What a twisted, contrived pant load of propoganda.

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[RightWingAtheist]

That's Ted right behind Osama...without a paddle:

[prairiebreeze]

I'll let my tagline speak to this issue.

Prairie

[atomic conspiracy]

Rall then argues that if the beheading says anything about the true nature of the terrorists, then the Abu Ghraib scandal says something about the true nature of the American people.

Got 'im. Inciting genocide. See Streicher, Julius.

[elbucko]

In the fullness of time, Ted Rall will be shown to be other than what he appears to be. I don't know exactly what that is, but Rall has an unspoken agenda that will be destructive of his image. Give it time.

[stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims]

This guy is such a little lisping b*tch and someone ought to knock his damn lights out, especially over that Pat Tillman slur. Goddammit I am so sick to death of these flaming liberal mutt bastards, it`s just absolutely unbelievable what they do day after day. Now I`m reading on Drudge the NY Times headlines for tomorrow will be "Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations"...Oh my heart bleeds! Are they kidding me? My oh my that Nick Berg murder disappeared pretty fast, not that they focused on it anyway. What the hell is going on here? Is there some drug going around that is throwing the thinking of these ding dongs in the twilight zone? Do they actually believe that these Islamic animals should just be left alone to blow up any place they want? Kill anybody they want? This all comes down to anti semitism, that`s the only thing I can thing of that would sort of explain to me why they do this. I think they truly believe that Israel, which takes up less than 1/10th of 1% of the entire middle east, which is the only Democracy in the middle east, is in fact some sort of abusers or warmongers against Muslims, when the fact of the matter is Muslims are the ones who are. They hate Jews! That`s all they are about! Palestinians want their own state! The whole freggin middle east is their state! Mecca is in Saudia Arabia, if they are so ardently Muslim, if they have to "pray" 6 times a day, why aren`t they living there? But noooo, they want that less than 1/10th of 1%, and you know what would happen if they did take over Israel? Nothing would change. They would still abuse women, still kill, still behead people, because that`s what they are, they`re freggin brainwashed sickos. They celebrate death, death means more to them than life. Life to them is a waiting room for death, that`s all they ever talk about. Allah Allah Allah death death death death.

[atomic conspiracy]

"but do so in a civil and nonthreatening manner."

A future war crimes tribunal would be a very civil and dignified environment and that's where Rall's hate-mongering and terror-incitement should be addressed. (See tagline)

[stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims]

Ted Rall: Hypocritical Scum mutt who will draw this cartoon below but not one about the Muslim animals who stone women to death, throw cripples off boats, fly planes into buildings, burn people from bridges, behead civilians, blow up civilians. Yes Ted Rall, may he be one of the virgins these Muslim mutts get when they meet Allah in hell.

[Cubs Fan]

If there's no difference between us and them Why doesn't rall go live in a Muslim country?

[Cubs Fan]

"I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated. Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people."

"[The beheading of Nick Berg] shows the true nature of the enemies of freedom.

If we're no different why are the prison guards being punished? If we're no different why aren't we taking random civilians and sawing off their heads on videos?

Its a shame feedom is wasted on people like Rall.