Being Ted Rall

cox and forkum ^ | may 5th 2004 | cox and forkum

[freepatriot32]

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall recently made the news for penning yet another crass cartoon, this one denigrating Pat Tillman, the football star turned soldier recently killed in Afghanistan. Rall painted Tillman as a racist, bloodthirsty idiot who was just another cog in the "El Busho" war machine.

MSNBC.com decided to pull the cartoon because it "did not meet MSNBC.com standards of fairness and taste."

Blogger Andrew Sullivan called for a protest campaign against Rall and yesterday offered this enlightening Rall quote:

"The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief."

Later Sullivan highlighted another Rall quote:

"My theory is that essentially, people don't like to think they're living in a country that's led by an evil, dictatorial madman. But they are, they are living in Nazi Germany, in Stalinist Russia."

In Rall's morally inverted view of reality, President Bush is equal to Hitler and Stalin, so by extension American soldiers under his command are jackbooted mass murderers, not heroes. Is it any wonder that Rall would find pleasure in kicking the corpse of a fallen American soldier?

UPDATE: FrontPageMagazine's Ben Johnson has a good overview of Ted Rall's and other leftists' anti-Americanism: The Left Smears an American Hero. (Via LGFer Axiom)

Posted by Forkum at 12:20 AM

[skeeter]

I can't help but look at this man and think what an utter waste.

I can't help but look at that man and think 'speedbag'.

[.cnI redruM]

The words "Nose Candy" aren't far afield either. You've inspired my creative juices.....

[atomicpossum]

Whoops...

Thought the thread title was 'Beating Ted Rall.' My enthusiasm wanes. My mistake.

[atomicpossum]

But, even as Rall engages in the Left's most popular intellectual dishonesty (cry 'Hitler' or 'Stalin' or a 'facist', etc.), he ignores the obvious refutation of that empty comparison: If the comparison had any merit, Mr. Rall would disappear in the middle of the night, never to be seen again, until his body surfaced, dismembered, his underdeveloped male (?) organ cut off and placed in his mouth, if, indeed, it ever surfaced at all. Instead, Mr. Rall seems pretty confident that he can mouth off with whatever diatribe he wishes and will come to no harm from either Mssrs. Stalin or Hitler. His childish diatribes disprove themselves....

[eleni121]

Another lefty pimpface gone wild.

It's best that he lives nowhere near me.

[Killborn]

Brutal. Gruesome. Disgusting. An excellent commentary by Cox and Forkum on one of the left's most disgusting POS "cartoonist".

[Killborn]

Better yet, have all these losers move to Canada, where they would be much happier in the Liberal Paradise.

Leave the good ole USA to us Patriots.

[Mr. Silverback]

That is AWESOME! Can't wait to post it on the Humanities Dept bulletin board!

[macrahanish #1]

Rall was in Afghanistan. Perhaps he should have stayed there and helped his ideological soulmates. Of course, when one of the Taliban handed him a weapon, Rall would immediately make doo-doo in his Depends.
My nine year old could kick Rall's a**.