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WashingtonPost.com Drops Ted Rall's Cartoons
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| Nov 18 2004
Posted on 11/18/2004 1:35:28 PM PST by george wythe
WashingtonPost.com is no longer running the cartoons of hard-hitting liberal Ted Rall.
Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. "The idea was to draw an analogy to the electorate -- in essence, the idiots are now running the country," he told E&P.
"That cartoon certainly drew a significant amount of negative comment from our users," said WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Doug Feaver when contacted by E&P. But he added that the decision to drop Rall was a "cumulative" one that had been building for a while
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dumpsrall; ineedtotakearall; kerrydefeat; liberalmedia; liberals; lousycartoonist; rall; rallsproductpantload; tedrall; wp; wptakesexlax
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To: george wythe
Good on ya, Washington Times!
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:36:38 PM PST
by
Ladysmith
(November 2, 2004: Taking America BACK!!!)
To: george wythe
One down.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:36:50 PM PST
by
atomicpossum
(I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
"The analogy obviously fell flat, or overshadowed the main point of the cartoon," Rall said of his Nov. 4 drawing. "More importantly, I forgot the editorial cartoonist's obligation to comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable. I got the latter in that cartoon at the expense of the former. Special-needs children face a lot of challenges; they don't need, or deserve, mocking from me. ... The cartoon was effective in its way, but it could have been better."
Depicting 51% of the American electorate as imbeciles was not regrettable. The objectiable part of the cartoon was "mocking" the "special-needs" children.
To: george wythe
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:37:13 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Okay, so today I *am* cranky.)
To: george wythe
Good. I wish they had dropped him out of the window of a very tall building, instead.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:37:16 PM PST
by
dinasour
(Pajamahadeen)
To: george wythe; Jim Robinson
Washington Post and FR have something in common.
Who woulda thunk it?
To: Ladysmith
oops!...
Washington Post!
;o)
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:37:41 PM PST
by
Ladysmith
(November 2, 2004: Taking America BACK!!!)
To: george wythe
Couldn't happen to a better guy.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:37:44 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: george wythe
About time. Should have happened a long time ago.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:38:09 PM PST
by
beandog
(Feeling Red in a Blue State)
To: Ladysmith
Good on ya, Washington Times! Uhhhh, it's the POST what done it.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:38:18 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: george wythe
Washington Post has standards? Unbelievable!
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:38:40 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: george wythe
We shouldn't be happy about this.
The WP is dropping him because they realize that his vitriol discredits their cause and energizes conservatives.
Ted Rall creates Republican voters because he is unable to modulate or mask the vileness seething inside him.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:38:45 PM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: george wythe
the decision to drop Rall was a "cumulative" one that had been building for a while They might never have noticed that Rall has no brains, but they finally realized that he has no class.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:38:54 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(A self-reliant conservative citizenry is a better bet than the subjects of an overbearing state. -MS)
To: george wythe
It's hard to believe that anyone (even Ted Rall) would be too liberal for the Washington Post.
To: george wythe
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:39:19 PM PST
by
sweetiepiezer
(We stopped Kerry for our grandkids sake!!!!!!!! Thank you America!!!!!!)
To: george wythe
GOOD.
Now for Doonesbury.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:39:37 PM PST
by
onyx
To: george wythe
hard-hitting liberalNihilist scrawling puke.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:40:30 PM PST
by
dighton
To: george wythe
He's not even an artist. He is the World's worst cartoon drawer. His cartoons look like a 3rd grader drew them.
And his writing is not much better.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:40:33 PM PST
by
MaineRepublic
(Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides)
To: george wythe
WashingtonPost.com is no longer running the cartoons of hard-hitting liberal Ted Rall.
Hard hitting? The guy is a venom filled liberal.
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posted on
11/18/2004 1:40:45 PM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(Sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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