[RayChuang88]

I'm actually a little bit surprised that Rall got dropped by the Washington Post online website, considering how liberal the Post is in general.

Maybe even the Post editors felt Rall's creations are too over the top for their readers?

[hershey]

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.

[orangelobster]

"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.

[Tallguy]

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?

[OESY]

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.

[oyez]

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

[Cold Heat]

"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."

[dansangel]

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.