His presence here on this earth can be explained by "The five-percent Butt Hole Theory of Life". It works like this...
If you were omnipotent, with the powers of a god, and could reach down, pluck out and remove all the butt holes on this earth (all the Ted Ralls, all the Michael Moores, etc.), that within a very short time you would find that of the remaining humans, another 5% would have taken over the task of being butt holes.
For reasons known only to God, butt holes fill some bizarre need in society. If not Ted Ralls, then some other jerk would be filling his shoes. They are as inevitable as trolls on FR.
--Boot Hill
True. I also think Rall must be Grenwich Village's idiot.