Ted Rall banned on FR: Thank you Admin Moderator

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[Pharmer]

Thank you Admin Moderator for banning Ted Rall's billious garbage from this forum. This low life isn't worth the electrical cost of a Zot. Cudos :).

[Diogenes]

I respectfully request help from all you Freepers!!!

The New York magazine is dead set against President George W. Bush and the entire Republican Party. It is owned by the Conde-Nast Corporation. I receive the damn thing because the subscription to it was given to me by a relative last Christmas. I have to admit, though, that sometimes they have interesting articles and essays, although the overall literary quality has declined considerably over the past fifteen or twenty years.

This last issue, of August 23, 2004, anticipating the GOP convention in New York City at the end of this month, carries two items that have shocked me. One, under the banner 'WELCOME, CONVENTIONEERS! has the following introductory statement:

"Now that you Republicans are guests in our home, we New Yorkers have put aside all that 'crypto-Fascist/gun/-nut/social-Neanderthal/greedy-fat-cat' stuff and have custom-designed this guide exclusively for you GOP delegates -- and especially for you crypto-Fascist/gun-nut/social-Neanderthal/greedy-fat-cat GOP delegates! Ready, set, go!"

Underneath the above welcoming words is a distorted map for presumably 'naive' GOP delegates, showing the Bronx where Staten Island is, New Jersey in Manhattan, The Hamptons in Queens, Brooklyn in the Bronx, and Madison Square Garden in New Jersey! Central Park is shown somewhere near Astoria, Queens!

Although this silly sketch, done by one Bruce McBall, -or something like it-, is meant in jest, one can tell that it distills enough venom to exacerbate the minds of all the stupid protesters that will try to disrupt the convention next week. The whole sketch and accompanying article is about a page and a half long, but it is offensive to say the least! The GOP delegates are being treated as if they were hicks or hillbillies that will be resignedly hosted by the superior jerks who live in Manhattan! I don't know who this nitwit Bruce McBall is, but one of my children who will be attending the convention as a delegate has lived and owned her home in Manhattan for ages! I, a Republican forever, have owned an apartment in Manhattan for a long time too, and I don't see why we have to take all this sneering from sleazeballs like McBall or McCall, or whatever!

The second article, under a CAMPAIGN JOURNAL section, is titled SWINGTIME. It has a subtitle that reads "Former Bush voters advertise their disaffection." This is a detailed account, some five and a half pages long, of how MoveOn.org (the Soros-owned attack-dog organization) is luring dissatisfied Republicans to express criticism of Bush and the Republican Party on video ads that will later be shown by the Soros group. The cynicism of the author, -one Philip Gourevitch, known for his dislike of Bush and the GOP-, is just amazing!

While there is very little we can do to stop these things, there is one thing every Freeper could do:

1) You can cancel your subscription to the magazine if you have one. I will not renew mine when it expires in a couple of months. I have also persuaded every relative and/or friend that buys the magazine to cease and desist!

2)I would suggest a boycott of the companies that advertise in The New Yorker, such as Citibank, Toyota, 1-800-Mattress, Grand Marnier, The Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the American Stock Exchange, Turning Leaf Vineyards, BP petroleum products, Subaru, Volkswagen, Daimler-Chrysler Corporation, Absolut Furst (Vodka), The Apple Company, Inc., etc.

I don't know whether these measures will prove effective or not, but I would certainly hope my Freeper friends would spread the word!

Thank you very much.

[Pharmer]

"Rall's work has been banned from FR for years"

There was a thread on an article he wrote a couple of days ago. Also the Pat Tillman cartoon was discussed at length here. He may have been banned but it good to see the moderator are on the ball.

Now it we could just do the same for Helen Thomas' face!

[Deb]

I read somewhere about the Democrats volunteering as guides for NY Rep. conventioneers and their plans to sabotage the GOP wherever they could. I would have been disgusted if I had any left.

WRT Rall's banishment, I have to agree with the banners. At some point there needs to be a haven away from the hatred, lies and evil that's become the Democrat party. Anyone who really thinks they haven't heard "the other side" is new to the planet. I'm not sure that's a service we need to provide.

[tx_eggman]

In my youth -I started out in IT in 1969 hanging Analog seismic tapes (4 inch wide, single seismic shot) on tree's so they could be processed on an old SDS 9300 - But I digress ...

there used to be an entire pool of keypunch operators that programmers would send their code sheets to to be converted to cards.

Whenever someone was getting married we'd spend a few weeks emptying the bit buckets into plastic bags and, on their wedding day, fill their getaway car with the bits. They were impossible to get rid of completely.

[tiamat]

i have been disconnected because I am moving and doing it on the cheap.

Who ( or WHAT) is Ted Rall?

[stands2reason]

Are you trapped on FR? Poor thing....

[Pharmer]

Bump

Now if only Drudge would ban him as well! I see there is a link to his crap that showed up here on Monday. Its entitled "NYC to GOP: Drop dead". My response: "FR to Ted Rall: hope your feet are getting warmer A**hole(0)!"

[omniscient]

For extremely sick work like Rall's, maybe the policy should be to just allow links to the piece rather than posting the content. An appropriate warning could be added, such as "Warning - the author of the linked article is insane." We can't pretend that this element does not exist. We do have to "know the enemy."

[Taxachusan]

Yeah you're wrong about this. An article like a Rall article doesn't divide freepers, it brings freepers together in disgust, and we need to spread articles like Rall's far and wide to show the non-political people just what run of the mill Democrats are thinking about the country.

My thoughts exactly. Rather than ban his posts, we should be using them to keep others motivated, and stay motivated ourselves. It's good for the cause to get the blood-pressure WAY up once in a while :-).

[rintense]

Ted Rall's has a major a$$kicking waiting for him- FROM ME.

[Joe Brower]

"Ted Rall's has a major a$$kicking waiting for him- FROM ME."

Heh heh. Better get in line, good lady. It's a long one.

I have a feeling that this guy, along with his kindred like Micheal Moore, et al, are going to have to seriously watch their backs in the months to come as our troops start returning from Iraq.

Many of those service people know what Rall and his ilk have said and done, and just being out of a war zone, they're going to be, shall we say, "extremely prejudiced" towards these contemptible creatures who did nothing but undermine their sacrifices at every opportunity.

Bodyguards aren't going to faze them, or stop them from doling out a bit of "field expedient justice" if and when these warriors happen to run into the likes of Rall, Moore, etc., etc.

God have mercy on the likes of Rall then, because these combat veterans will not.

[steve-b]

Morford is for sheer humor.

I thought it was for a drinking game (e.g. 1 swig for each sexual reference, 1 swig for each insult to Dubya's intelligence, etc).

[steve-b]

Rall's work

Putting aside the question of his politics and lack of basic decency and good taste, you call that work?

His scribblings make Scott Adams look like Michelangelo.

[cyborg]

hehe!

[steve-b]

I should warn you that attempting to follow the instructions in Msg#72 may lead to acute alcohol poisoning....

[RogueIsland]

There is a Mark Morford thread that's been on for hours this morning.

The original poster said "progressive mind", not "psychologically disturbed, gender-confused, emotionally stunted and intellectually muddled mind". ;-)

[RogueIsland]

Back in the 70s when I took Computer Science, which consisted mainly of Fortran IV for Scientists and Engineers, we entered our programs on Hollerith cards that we keyed on IBM keypunch machines.

Back in college, my roommate and I had an informal competition as to who got the most cryptic compile- or run-time error on the University system. He won:

"Error in Hollerith field."

To this day, I haven't a clue as to what the heck that was all about.

[d-back]

What a mistake to pull the Rall article. The general policy of not wanting to "help" Rall out by posting his nonsense is, perhaps, defensible. But Rall's most recent screed (available on Drudge, of course) deserves WIDESPREAD circulation among Freepers and the general public, because it is so odious. It has to be read to be believed, and it will, in fact, galvanize those on the right.

Light disinfects. Admin Moderator, I respectfully submit you made a big mistake.

[trisham]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Ted Rall banned on FR: Thank you Admin Moderator, Sir Gawain wrote:

Yeah you're wrong about this. An article like a Rall article doesn't divide freepers, it brings freepers together in disgust, and we need to spread articles like Rall's far and wide to show the non-political people just what run of the mill Democrats are thinking about the country.

Bad move banning his columns.

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Generally speaking, I agree with you, Sir Gawain. I'd rather see more discussion than less, but it's tricky business moderating a forum.

[TC Rider]

He won:

"Error in Hollerith field."

To this day, I haven't a clue as to what the heck that was all about.

Card entered 'Buchanan' in lieu of 'Gore'