Posted on 02/03/2006 8:30:23 PM PST by infoguy
In an especially contentious exchange on this evening's Hannity and Colmes (Friday February 3, 2006), cantankerous cartoonist Ted Rall, a guest on the program, unbelievably declared, "We do not owe our liberties to the military." The topic was the recent Washington Post cartoon by Tom Toles that has outraged many. The cartoon prompted a letter to the editor (linked at Michelle Malkin) from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who tagged the the work as "beyond tasteless." Needless to say, Rall (who himself has created bigoted trash in the past) defended Toles' cruel piece. Here's the relevant exchange (audiotape on file, emphasis mine):
SEAN HANNITY: Here's what you're missing. The reason that you have the right to be mean, and you were mean to this guy [killed in Afghanistan, former NFL star Pat] Tillman, who gave up a football contract to save his country. The reason you have the right to be mean in your cartoons, and Toles has a right to mean and insensitive in his cartoons, is because of people like this (Sean holds up the WaPo cartoon) that literally put their lives on the line so you have the right for free expression. And you insult them and use them as props so you can make your left-wing political points.
RALL: Sean, you could not possibly be more wrong about the nature of this country. We do not owe our liberties to the military. We owe them to the Constitution. We have civilian rule in the United States --
HANNITY: The military preserves the Constitution. They put their lives on the line so that you have free speech. You do owe them.
RALL: The military doesn't give us free speech.
HANNITY: Yes, they do.
RALL: Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers gave us free speech.
HANNITY: No. Because if they don't defend that Constitution, you don't have the right to be so wrong in your cartoons!
"We do not owe our liberties to our military"?? I'm sure George Washington would have had a few things to say about that, not to mention the generations of heroic young men who fought and died to protect and defend our precious liberties.
It was simply another pathetic display by Ted Rall. How ungrateful this man is. What a disgrace.
By the way, if Rall's comments weren't sad enough, co-host Alan Colmes claimed that the Joint Chiefs' letter to the Washington Post was "intimidating" and that there was a "chill of intimidation that goes right down the spine of the First Amendment." Puh-leeze, Alan.
Ok, you can spring for the steel toed boot to kick his ass off the plane with. How's that?
Rall is a maggot infested pos with zero talent. Our first grader grand daughter can draw better than he can and print better.
The only reason Rall and Toles have jobs is the MSM pays them to do their hate GW, Christians and military hit stuff posing as political cartoons.
Ah, so you should be allowed to express your opinion but the JCS should not be allowed to criticize your opinion. Free speech for me but not for thee.
Maybe I'll write it on a piece of paper, stamp it top secret, and slip it under his door.
Hanity has these creeps on to excite his audience.
True. Sean is a showman and has to put on a good show.
That aside, I'm about the same size as Rall and a lot older. I'd love to put the gloves on and get in the ring with him. I'd make him beg for mercy.
bttt
Thank you.
It is true that a few kind words can go a long way!!!
God Bless!!!
Thanks for the ping!
Technically the constitution didn't exist when George Washington and his soldiers were fighting the British.
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