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Soldier-slandering, Radical Left-wing Cartoonist (Ted) Rall Laid Off
NewsBusters ^ | April 24, 2009 | Ken Shepherd

Posted on 04/24/2009 1:32:00 PM PDT by Zakeet

Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" -- was recently laid off. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article:

NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.

“I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Rall, an editorial cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, has served as editor of acquisitions and development at United Media for the past two years.

“My job was finding new talent -- comic strip artists, columnists and writers of puzzles -- to syndicate to newspapers,” Rall writes on his blog. “Considering the circumstances, I enjoyed remarkable success. ... I am proud of what I accomplished.”

Rall may be virtually alone when it comes to taking pride in his work. Not content to keep his Hitler comparisons to elected politicians like George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, Rall often spilled his venom on the likes of American servicemen and 9/11 widows. In one of his most infamous drawings, he compared U.S. soldiers to Islamist suicide bombers:

Ironically, last year Rall said the country's direction, including a souring economy, was "good news" for him.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchist; cartoons; editorialcartoon; fired; goodnewstoday; goodriddance; hooray; layoffs; liberalmedia; mediabias; msm; rall; scum; tedrall; traitor; treason
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To: Zakeet

"Well...bye."

61 posted on 04/24/2009 3:08:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Zakeet

Rall will get plenty of work in the sub-prime, leftist news market. There are scads of leftist mags and and whatnot that will use his, ahem, talents.


62 posted on 04/24/2009 3:13:17 PM PDT by driftless2 (four)
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To: Zakeet

This turd still has a beat down coming some day.


63 posted on 04/24/2009 3:13:26 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: Zakeet
A curse upon him. May he be forced to live by his wits.

Dead in two months. Starvation.

64 posted on 04/24/2009 3:17:35 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Lesson #1 from Battlestar Galactica: Never turn your back on your toaster.)
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To: Petronski
But without medical coverage, who will pay to remove his coal-black spleen?

We'll go to the zoo and get a buzzard that will be happy to do it.
65 posted on 04/24/2009 3:20:39 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Lesson #1 from Battlestar Galactica: Never turn your back on your toaster.)
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To: SeanOGuano

Coming soon to a reststop mens room near you. Ask for him by name.


66 posted on 04/24/2009 3:23:09 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( If this be treason, then lets make the best of it.)
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To: Zakeet

Next, Tom Tomorrow.


67 posted on 04/24/2009 3:26:43 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: Zakeet

Very sissy looking. No doubt would enjoy being bent over by al-Qaeda


68 posted on 04/24/2009 3:37:29 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Zakeet
Worse still was when Mad magazine (who, despite their accurate name for themselves, have more journalistic ethics and integrity than most of the rest of the MSM combined) hired him on for a short bit. My hope is that he will then be relegated to those little indie papers who, after I've read the only worthwhile thing about them, I put down for my dogs to do what his 'work' deserves to have done with it.

Bottom line, until or unless he ever wises up fully (and being right about the Empty Suit one time doesn't qualify), any bad happening to Rall's work is a good thing for the rest of us.
69 posted on 04/24/2009 3:44:13 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Gotcha some good news today — come on over.


70 posted on 04/24/2009 3:47:13 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Category Four

HURRAY! Thank you so much for the ping.

LOL! Evil DOES get it in the end, LOL! Yippee! Hats and Horns!! Wa-Hoo!

And just think...every day he’s ‘shorter of breath and one day closer to death.’ (But then, so am I, LOL!)


71 posted on 04/24/2009 4:21:27 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
As are we all one day shorter of breath. Two significant differences, though, are these:

1) We're not Ted, so we can actually have some fun over life.
2) This includes a good appreciation of Floyd.

But yeah, I saw this, thought right away of you based on the last thing we batted back and forth with on Ted, and there we were.
72 posted on 04/24/2009 4:25:58 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Zakeet
Not enough.

But it is a start.

73 posted on 04/24/2009 4:27:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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To: Zakeet

And f-You, Rall!

74 posted on 04/24/2009 4:27:36 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Zakeet

75 posted on 04/24/2009 4:29:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Zakeet
“Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.”

Okay. I take it Ted Rall got laid off, but who was the “wildly talented cartoonist” that apparently got laid off along with Rall.

I mean, if you saw a tombstone that read “Ted Rall” and “A Wildly Talented Cartoonist,” wouldn't your assume that there were two people buried there? Anyone that saw Rall’s artwork would.

76 posted on 04/24/2009 4:33:35 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Looks like a sword-swallower.


77 posted on 04/24/2009 6:19:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Zakeet

Maybe he can move to San Francisco and earn his keep turning tricks in The Castro...


78 posted on 04/24/2009 6:20:14 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's lawn jockey doesn't speak Austrian)
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To: a fool in paradise
Was there a political litmus test as to who would get hired?

Gosh, no - I'm sure they turned a blind eye towards one's politics. It was strictly on merit...

**snicker**

79 posted on 04/24/2009 6:21:46 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's lawn jockey doesn't speak Austrian)
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To: Zakeet

“Ted? Ted?... I said FRIES with that!”


80 posted on 04/24/2009 8:20:29 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in.)
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