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MSNBC/Slate: Why we pulled Monday's Ted Rall cartoon ('cause Rall's a wuss?)
Slate/MSNBC ^ | 5.3.04

Posted on 05/03/2004 1:54:24 PM PDT by mhking

Item did not meet MSNBC standards of fairness and taste

MSNBC.com pulled a cartoon by syndicated political cartoonist Ted Rall on Monday.

Rall’s cartoon, distributed widely by United Press Syndicate to scores of newspapers and Web sites, concerned the late Pat Tillman, the NFL player who quit football to join the Army. Tillman was killed last month in Afghanistan.

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To: mhking
Rall is typical of the bed-wetting, nihilistic, infantile mindset of many "alternate" cartoonists. I know, 'cause I used to aspire to be one 'til I finally grew up.

Everytime whiny libs bring up examples of rightist "hate speech," just remind them of Rall atrocities (or the observation, from their other Darling - Franken - on how the ony hope for the GOP was to have all their leadership die in a plane crash).
41 posted on 05/03/2004 2:24:52 PM PDT by pollwatcher
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To: atomicpossum
I think his pic says it all.
That's interesting. What does his picture say to you? It only tells me that he's white, male, middle-aged, and not bald. Doesn't say another thing to me beyond that.
42 posted on 05/03/2004 2:26:13 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Rall was a Dean guy. I bet a good chunk of the Deaniacs think this way. (They sure do over at DU)
43 posted on 05/03/2004 2:27:37 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns (Kerry was caught sleeping with a... excerpted...read the rest here: www.taglines.com)
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To: Clara Lou
This may give you a clue. Check out Rall's alternate web site. Rall's Peter Pan Pixyland
44 posted on 05/03/2004 2:29:41 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: fr_freak
No, they keep files of all these liberal "cartoonists" online at www.notalentassclown.com.
45 posted on 05/03/2004 2:31:55 PM PDT by FreedomFlynnie (Why is it that people who call themselves "progressives" are always against all progress?)
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To: Noumenon
People like Ted Ralls are already dead inside. The virtues of honor, loyalty, dignity and courage are hateful to his ilk. He lives out his days in a self constructed hell.
46 posted on 05/03/2004 2:38:55 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: mhking
Item did not meet MSNBC standards of fairness and taste

Only something that STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN merits being yanked by Slate/PMSNBC.

This is an example

Prairie

47 posted on 05/03/2004 2:39:38 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Ted Rall is a waste of time, paper, ink and bandwidth.)
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To: WayneM
Actually the more they do things like this, that the average citizen will detest, the more the rats look like what they are, pathetic losers.
48 posted on 05/03/2004 2:41:50 PM PDT by keysguy (Give the rats enough rope....)
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To: mhking
For the same reason the Admin Moderator pulled it here. The guy's a kook. He makes some of the less loopier Democrats look sane but I'm afraid their party is falling into the same fever swamp he's wading in. What's unmistakable about Ted Rall's cartoon is his undisguised hatred for America. Most Lefties like to pretend they love this country but this nutball is honest about where he stands. You know portraying Pat Tillman so graphically is kind of like an X-Ray into the souls of these people and I can't relate to them. Despising your country like that is where I don't care to go.
49 posted on 05/03/2004 2:43:07 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Taffini
Does anyone have a picture of Rall?

Here he is at a swanky DC party. I can't remember if he's the one getting his a55 kissed or if he is the one doing the kissing.

50 posted on 05/03/2004 2:46:23 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: mhking

51 posted on 05/03/2004 2:49:54 PM PDT by Alouette (Float like a butterfly, sting like a B-52)
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To: FreedomFlynnie
Found his picture (and am the worse for it):

That's after he's cleaned up. Here's what he normally looks like:


52 posted on 05/03/2004 2:50:40 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: mhking
Disgusting.
53 posted on 05/03/2004 2:51:27 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: goldstategop
The guy's a kook. He makes some of the less loopier Democrats look sane but I'm afraid their party is falling into the same fever swamp he's wading in. What's unmistakable about Ted Rall's cartoon is his undisguised hatred for America.

I refused to link to it directly both here and on my site because I think there are certain lines that should'nt be crossed. That's one of them.

54 posted on 05/03/2004 2:52:01 PM PDT by mhking
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To: goldstategop
ted rall is the most uniformed, idiotic, integrityless, worthless piece of dog excrement to ever raise from the muck at the bottom of the sewers.

acknowledging him is like giving weight to the political opinions of charles manson.

ted rall is the one who has the running joke "attack of the 9/11 widow", which portarys all widows of 9/11 and daniel pearl as money-grubbers out to get rich and famous from the tragedy. he also implied that president bush was happy about the fallujah incident, because he thought it was a barbeque. burned american corpses are always good for a laugh I guess. perhaps his most idiotic statement was that the terorists wanted the winner of the presidential election to be...GEORGE W BUSH. if that doesn't sink your credibility, even with the kool-aid drinkers, nothing will.
55 posted on 05/03/2004 2:52:22 PM PDT by bigghurtt (Thy tender, major burn - anagram of the bigghurtt's full name.)
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To: FreedomCalls
Ted Rall was a former student of mine in the 1970's for a short time, when he lived in a suburb of Dayton. I have followed his career somewhat.

He craves attention, and is very interested in controversy for the sake of controversy, in fomenting outrage than the expression of any coherent philosophy beyond extreme knee-jerk liberalism.

He did have some excellent anti-Clinton cartoons in the '90's, where in one he had Clinton explaining why he had sacrificed humans to Ba'al, satirizing the "smoked but didn't inhale" - "Depends what 'is' means" Clinton.

To be sure, more recently he is as far left-wing weirdo doubleplusunfunny as you can get! MSNBC probably made his day by pulling the cartoon.
56 posted on 05/03/2004 2:53:56 PM PDT by Hesse3000
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
I believe that you missed my point: That picture doesn't tell anything about Ted Rall beyond his physical appearance.
57 posted on 05/03/2004 3:05:11 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou
That's interesting. What does his picture say to you? It only tells me that he's white, male, middle-aged, and not bald. Doesn't say another thing to me beyond that.

The joyless expression, the lethargic look, the overall drabness, all fit with his work as someone grinding away at the world and someone I'd hate even to share an elevator with.

58 posted on 05/03/2004 3:10:58 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Hey, I wouldn't touch Camryn Manheim's uterus on a bet.)
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To: .38sw
>>>,i>Despicable cartoon. Rall is a pig. <<<

I would pay big money to see Rall meet up with some of Tillman's former team mates - or his former platoon!!

59 posted on 05/03/2004 3:20:59 PM PDT by HardStarboard ( Wesley...gone. Hillary......not gone enough!)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
I thought Tillman joined up way before Iraq.
60 posted on 05/03/2004 3:29:33 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (General - Alien Army of the Right (AAOTR))
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