Posted on 05/23/2011 2:06:42 PM PDT by markomalley
Ted Rall is a cartoonist, the sort that you'll find in any '"independent" newspaper in big cities like fellow cartoonist Tom Tomorrow. He's about as hard left as you can get, and became so offensive during the Bush administration that even left-leaning newspapers stopped carrying him. Recently, he wrote about how even allies are refusing to run some of his cartoons.
I can't prove it in every case. (That's how blackballing works.) The Nation and Mother Jones and Harper's, liberal magazines that gave me freelance work under Clinton and Bush, now ignore my queries. Even when I offered them first-person, unembedded war reporting from Afghanistan. Hey, maybe they're too busy to answer email or voicemail. You never know.
If you want a clue about how leftist Ted Rall is, he claims that Obama's cabinet, which includes some of the most hard left people in the country, even Maoists like Anita Dunn and advisers such as admitted communist Van Jones. Yet even newspapers as hard left a Mother Jones and The Nation are turning their backs on Rall. Why?
Has he become too hard left, has he become too radical for even these "progressive" organizations?
No, his crime is criticizing President Obama. Rall relates some of the responses from editors:
Rall notes that these aren't conservative editors who dislike him, but political allies:
What's weird is that these cultish attitudes come from editors and publishers whose politics line up neatly with mine. They oppose the bailouts. They want us out of Afghanistan and Iraq. They disapprove of Obama's new war against Libya. They want Obama to renounce torture and Guantánamo.
We already know Ted Rall's radical politics and tendency to use crude sophistry and put words in his opponents' mouths to make his political case. That's not anything new. What's significant in Rall's rant is that it tells us three important things about the news media today.
First, Ted Rall sees eye to eye with the publishers and editors of various news organizations when it comes to politics. The reason he was being published in newspapers such as the Washington Post was because of this fact and that he was viewed as being "hip." He only got dropped when his cartoons became so offensive readers raise an outcry editors couldn't ignore.
Second, Ted Rall has revealed how protective and in the tank for President Obama much the news media is. Even criticisms they agree with they don't want to run if it hurts their favored politician. These editors want to protect President Obama even from just, reasonable criticism they cannot deny.
And third, Rall has shown that at least one editor requested more attacks on the Republican party, specifically. I somehow doubt that's the only one who wants that, or even that requested it.
Ted Rall set out to complain about how unfair it is that some people don't want to buy his work any more; tough breaks, that's how the market system works. All he proved was how leftist and in the tank much of the news media actually is.
Thus, Rall is proven to be the definition of a useful idiot.
“If you want a clue about how leftist Ted Rall is, he claims that Obama’s cabinet, which includes some of the most hard left people in the country, even Maoists like Anita Dunn and advisers such as admitted communist Van Jones.”
This sentence seems somewhat incomplete to me. He claims just what?
Banned by the liberal press?
That. Speaks. Volumes.
I wouldn’t be suprised if even this article about that POS gets pulled by the mods.
Anything and everything about Ted Rall is just plan crap.
Have Ted Rall Draw a Political Cartoon Just For You
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It is real. It is linked from his web site.
http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2011/05/20/new-auction-now-up#respond
Guess he is really hurting for work.
This could not have happened to a nicer guy.
Yup, agreed, incomplete sentence/thought.
Rall’s unmitigated crap column runs in the local freebie weekly here in Tulsa. I occasionally write them a letter to remind the publisher that people that are interested in the local arts are not all a bunch of weak minded anti-capitalists.
Ted Rall is anti-Obama, anti-Obamacare, and anti-War.
He is a true Lefty but is not an Obamabot. That is why they won’t publish him.
With Obama regime, only ‘approved’ speech is allowed to be published.
I thought the same thing. Poor phrasing and no proofreading on their part.
He also wrote a column saying Ronald Reagan was turning a crispy brown after he died. He’s a POS.
TRANSLATION: The left really doesn't give a rip about their so-called "principles". All they really crave is power and holding on to it.
As for Rall, in addition to being a crude POS, his cartoons are butt-ugly. Not just in content and attack, but graphically as well.
They are ugly to look at, not even considering the rabidly offensive content. Rall sucks as a cartoonist.
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