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WashingtonPost.com Drops Ted Rall's Cartoons
Editor & Publisher Online ^ | November 18, 2004 | Dave Astor

Posted on 11/19/2004 7:12:12 AM PST by RayChuang88

NEW YORK 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.

"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people. We decided at the end of the day that it just did not fit the tone we wanted at WashingtonPost.com."

Rall was dropped effective Nov. 15, according to Feaver.

(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: dismissal; tedrall; washingtonpost; wp
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To: RayChuang88

About damn time! Now if the Compost would also drop Dana Milbank, EJ Dionne, Richard Cohen, William Rasperry, and pick up mark Steyn, I might consider re-subscribing!


21 posted on 11/19/2004 7:39:33 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: RayChuang88
... but ... but... only conservatives can be mean and insensitive. I'm so confused...
22 posted on 11/19/2004 7:47:31 AM PST by pabianice
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To: RayChuang88
"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people. ...."

And some of it is funny to a lot of awful people!!

23 posted on 11/19/2004 7:49:33 AM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren
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To: OKIEDOC
Why didn't the Washington Compost get rid t of this human piece of excrement before the election? Why did it take them so long to suddenly find religion?

Because it took losing the election to really convince them of the fact that hatemongers like Rall energize their opponants and alienate centrists/moderates.

I have no doubt that TWP likes and agrees with what Rall spews ... they just know that they HAVE to suppress it in order to win.
24 posted on 11/19/2004 7:55:09 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: RayChuang88

What about...they can't afford to lose anymore customers?


25 posted on 11/19/2004 7:56:36 AM PST by shiva
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Chris Muir is a much better political cartoonist. He's on break until 12/1, due to a family member's recent cancer death. Check out his past work at http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Default.aspx


26 posted on 11/19/2004 8:03:28 AM PST by knittnmom
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To: RayChuang88

And it's about damn time, too!


27 posted on 11/19/2004 8:04:52 AM PST by mhking
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To: RayChuang88

"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not awful to an funny lot of people."


28 posted on 11/19/2004 8:17:21 AM PST by Oztrich Boy ("The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force". - Voltaire)
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To: RayChuang88

His racist Condi cartoons might have helped push him out, although the Washington Post might not want to admit it.


29 posted on 11/19/2004 8:35:03 AM PST by Cicero (Nil illegitemus carborundum est)
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To: RayChuang88

Rall was dropped because of his disgusting racist cartoon about Condi Rice. The WashPost could care less about flyover country being portrayed as mentally retarded.


30 posted on 11/19/2004 8:44:58 AM PST by hershey
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To: RayChuang88

"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people"

Even though they dropped his comic strip, they still don't get it. Rall is not a satirist, his work is just thinly veiled hate. He's just not funny. Even if I was a leftie I would say the same thing.


31 posted on 11/19/2004 9:09:32 AM PST by orangelobster
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To: RayChuang88
I guess this means that Ted Rall's trash might still appear in the print version of the WP. So what is the WP accomplishing here? Are they just trying to stop whipping up us rednecks out here in the hinterland? Y'know, us hicks who might not be sophisticated enough to 'get' what Ted's point is?
32 posted on 11/19/2004 9:15:06 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: RayChuang88

Circulation was down 10% at the Washington Post (before the audit?). Ted Rall helped speed that decline, as well as the migration from Old Media to New Media by those seeking timely and reliable news reporting.


33 posted on 11/19/2004 11:37:28 AM PST by OESY
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To: RayChuang88

Rall and about a dozen other are nationaly syndicated while their material isn't fit for street newpaper, IMHO.


34 posted on 11/19/2004 11:59:56 AM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: RayChuang88
"Ted Rall does very interesting work," Feaver said. "Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people. We decided at the end of the day that it just did not fit the tone we wanted at WashingtonPost.com."

Translation..........."the election is over, we lost despite everything we did. It is now time to reassess our methods."

35 posted on 11/19/2004 12:02:31 PM PST by Cold Heat (There is more to do! "Mr. Kerry, about that Navy discharge?")
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To: RayChuang88; .45MAN

This makes me very happy. I have had the displeasure of communicating with this idiot via email. We went back and forth several times over a cartoon in which he depicted President Bush as a Nazi. This was shortly after 9/11 and having to do with Rall's displeasure over the Patriot Act.

In typical liberal fashion, he just kept repeating buzzwords and soundbites, none of it terribly intelligent and all of it aggravating and condescending.

Thank God that the people have spoken and *someone* (The Washington Post - I'll be darned!) is listening.


36 posted on 11/19/2004 12:46:49 PM PST by dansangel (Thank you Veterans past and present!)
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To: dansangel
I bet rall never drew Bill Jefferson Clinton in a unfavorable way,
37 posted on 11/19/2004 6:33:17 PM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: oyez
I bet rall never drew Bill Jefferson Clinton in a unfavorable way,

You are probably correct. I didn't become familiar with the idiot's cartoons until after 9/11 when I started reading Cagle's politicalcartoons.com:

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons//

He's not one of their featured cartoonists, but there is a link to his junk there. There are plenty of liberal cartoonists on Cagle's site but none quite as offensive as rall.

38 posted on 11/20/2004 10:11:51 AM PST by dansangel (Thank you Veterans past and present!)
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