Posted on 05/17/2011 1:58:44 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Stifling Liberal Dissent Under Obama
NEW YORK--After they called the presidency for Obama, emails poured in. "You must be relieved now that the Democrats are taking over," an old college buddy told me. "There will be less pressure on you."
That would have been nice.
In the late 1990s my cartoons ran in Time, Fortune and Bloomberg Personal magazines and over 100 daily and alternative weekly newspapers. I was a staff writer for two major magazines.
Then Bush came in. And 9/11 happened.
The media gorged on an orgy of psychotic right-wing rhetoric. Flags everywhere. Torture suddenly OK. In a nation where mainstream political discourse was redefined between Dick Cheney on the right and libertarian Bill Maher on the not-as-right, there wasn't any room in the paper for a left-of-center cartoonist. My business was savaged. Income plunged.
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According to Wikipedia, Rall is reduced to offering his services on eBay.
” there wasn’t any room in the paper for a left-of-center cartoonist. My business was savaged. Income plunged.”
Could it be that you just suck?
So a committed leftist suddenly discovers the intolerance of the left. It takes him this long to discover he was a useful idiot, who is useful no more. It took the ending of his career to realize that liberal politicians only care about power and not the people. So I guess he is not the sharpest pencil in the box
That’s what happens when you try and sell crap no one wants. Welcome to capitalism dipstick.
Doonesbury is I think still published. Trudeau bashes the GOP when they have the presidency, then bashes the GOP when they hold congress, he spent 8 years ignoring the Clinton corruption and scandals, went back to bashing GWB for 8 years, and is back to ignoring the current democrat POTUS. Aside from Rall, probably the most unfunny, irrelevant cartoonist out there. At least Trudeau is a good artist. Rall is terrible.
You cannot tell me the base is going to be as excited as in ‘08.
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Doesn’t matter; the fix is in. Votes will be counted the Chicago Way.
According to Wikipedia, Rall is reduced to offering his services on eBay.
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I don’t want to know what those services are....
Trudeau sucks as a an artist and a cartoonist. Doonesbury sucks!
Ted thinks he’s been blackballed. Truth is, he hasn’t much talent and he’s been found out.
I have despised Ted Rall for years now and was practically incandescent with fury over the cartoon in which he drew Condoleezza Rice referring to herself as a “house nigger for the Bushs”, yet it is hard (even through the schadenfreude) not to feel a slight twinge of sympathy for his point of view.
Yes, he’s a libtard and worse, but he is standing by his principles (despicable though they may be) and is, in his way, just as fearful of and contemptuous of the mind-numbed Obamabots infesting the MSM as we are.
This, I submit, is not a bad thing. At least he is still capable of thinking and is not a fanatical supporter of the hopey-changey Communist police state the rest of the lemming-like left are embracing.
No, this puke needs a good old fashioned curb stomping.
“He’s sh*ttin’ us, right??”
Can you imagine the mind of someone who thinks Maher is on the right? Breathtaking.
Did you read the article by Rall? I was totally blown away.
No, I couldn’t stomach it. The local paper here in southern NJ, The Asbury Park Press is a Gannett-owned liberal rag that’s always carrying this creeps sh!t. I only put up with the paper because my mother-in-law likes reading it. It’s a total liberal gagger.
I beg to differ.
Although beauty is often in the eye of the beholder, Trudeau's excreta would be laughed out of most third grade art classes. Stilted, hackneyed no-dimensional characters.
At least Snuffy Smith could pull off several different facial expressions.
"So what should I think about [the war in Libya]? If it had been my call, I wouldn't have gone into Libya. But the reason I voted for Obama in 2008 is because I trust his judgment. And not in any merely abstract way, either: I mean that if he and I were in a room and disagreed about some issue on which I had any doubt at all, I'd literally trust his judgment over my own. I think he's smarter than me, better informed, better able to understand the consequences of his actions, and more farsighted."
Rall then proceeds to urinate all over Drum's apparent lack of a brain. There's more keepers in there, too. I've followed Rall's vitriol for more than a dozen years, and stopped reading his stuff several years ago. I was FLOORED by this article. He's calling out his own side.
Has Rall considered the reason that no one will hire him is because his stuff sucks?
Wow. If Rall could have Obamas kid he’d do that too. “Mother Jones’’? You mean they’re still printing that Leftist rag? If’’ The Village Voice’’ dumps on Obama then its over for sure.
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