Posted on 06/08/2004 10:21:58 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:42:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Political cartoonist Ted Rall's comment that the late President Ronald Reagan is "turning crispy brown right about now" provoked a reaction that crashed his Web site for at least 24 hours after the remark was posted on the Drudge Report.
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Sounds like Hell to me.
You're just saying that to be nice. ;-)
Ted Rall has had his ass kicked before. Speculation now is he may have been asking for it.
From Amazon.com:
Outrageous Ted recounts his junior-high years in the hands of a merciless bully who just wouldn¹t let up. Ted, now a strapping fella over 6 feet happily lost in the Big Apple, was at the time a wimp egghead lost in the middle of Nowheresville, Heartland, USA, and hated it with a passion. This no-holds-barred recollection begs the question: was his attitude such that maybe he deserved it?
Here's is the back cover to the first (of 2 so far) fundraising comics to defend a cartoonist against a lawsuit brought forth by Ted Rall. They are decidedly anti-Rall. Pulitzer Prizing winning cartoonist, Art Spiegelman drew the back cover. Note the Museum of Comic Gods. Art figures that just maybe Ted Rall would be included as a urinal fixture in the basement (lower left corner):
The Rangers are going to give him a beating he will remember and feel for the rest of his life. The kind that results in a permanent limp, and a lop-sided face. Couldn't happen to a nicer infected slug.
"We've been creeping closer to socialism, a system that someone once said works only in heaven, where it isn't needed, and in hell, where they've already got it."
Ted Rall, seen above, at home in "paradise".
Whereas "free speech" is protected, inciting a race war or class riot is not protected speech. Ted Rall can get his ass kicked someday.
Your opinion of him is much kinder than mine.
It is!
KW: Some people on the right would say we're Americans because we have the right to bear arms, because we have constitutional liberties, the right to start our own businesses...TR: The right to start your own business? They have that in China. What's the difference? That's not even unique to capitalism. But I agree with the right about certain things. I do think the right to own guns is an important freedom. But I believe in gun control in that not just anyone should be able to walk into a store and buy a gun. Obviously there should be stringent licensing requirements. You're required to have a license to own a dog, and dogs aren't quite as lethal as guns. But when the crunch comes people need to have guns. If they're all in the hands of the government authorities then only the government has any power.
Let's go ahead and "license" journalists too. Makes it easier to identify someone when they put a phoney post on a weblog. And that "right to free speech" could be stopped when it is used to incite a riot or murder. What a useful idiot.
I was one of those who was on the front lines hollering at Clinton during his time in office. When his time comes, you won't find me and dare I say, many of us, saying he is going to "fry". Given the opportunity, I'll wager that most of us right-wingers would prefer to remain silent rather than spew bitterly like Rall and his ilk. In fact, I could find constructive things to say about Clinton when the curtain closes one last time for him. He was a pretty positive person (unlike Kerry or Hillary) and he tried as hard as a person could to settle the conflict in the middle East. He is a fallible human like the rest of us and I deeply disagreed with his policies and what I felt was an overly casual attitude. But Hell, naw. It isn't up to me to determine.
Sheesh.
Hey, I EXPECT all communists to hate Reagan, even after the passage of time -- he kicked their collective asses. I know the truth hurts, Ted, but if you are going to be a communist, then wear the name proudly...
yeah, he really supports the 2nd Amendment. Thanks for the post.
He's talking out of his ass to sound like an independent thinker.
He DID support the impeachment of Bill Clinton (and he was booed by liberals for that stance). However it was largely because he thought that Al Gore would be a much better President than Bill Clinton was. Also, I would find it impossible to say he was "the first" to support impeachment.
Not in the free parts of the country, Ted...
Perhaps he spelled it correctly.
I stand corrected. Roughly 8 references to the "first amendment" (some pro- some con-). At least one was him whining about a joke perpetrated by "Dirty Danny".
His problem is that he actually thinks that the commies he hung out with back then were "garden-variety" Democrats. Now, of course, they actually ARE typical Democrats. He's one of the silly, perennially-protesting fools, that have never grown up. I have a notion that he's known John Kerry for some time.
But, if we're going to get all worked up,
Mr. Rall's cartoons are distributed by Universal Press Syndicate and appear in about 140 publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News. He also regularly posts his opinions at www.rall.com.
we should get a list together of every paper, everywhere, that publishes his cartoons, and just start circulating and publicizing the list, asking that people just cancel their subscriptions. There's probably ample reason independent of Rall's idiocies to boycott all those media outlets permanently anyway...
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