Ted Rall Says He Might Sue Ann Coulter

Editor and Publisher ^ | 2/13/06 | Dave Astor

[stinkerpot65]

NEW YORK Columnist Ann Coulter made a provocative remark Friday about "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau and editorial cartoonist Ted Rall. Trudeau is shrugging it off, but Rall is considering a lawsuit.

Coulter reportedly said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.: "Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and The New York Times have made submissions."

[Democratshavenobrains]

"It's one thing to mock people for their opinions and quite another to make opinions up out of whole cloth and stuff them into a person's mouth. "

Yeah, because we ALL know that Ted Rall would NEVER make opinions up and say they are fact.

Hypocrisy meter explodes.

[weegee]

patriotism

n : love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it [syn: nationalism]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

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nationalism

n 1: love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it [syn: patriotism]
2: the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other [ant: multiculturalism, internationalism]
3: the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
4: the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals [ant: internationalism]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

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I don't see how Ted Rall can claim being patriotic to America.
Does he seem to you as a man who celebrates this nation and is willing to sacrifice for it?
Does he seem to you as a man who holds the view that this nation is better than all others?
Does he seem to you as a man who holds the view that this nation doesn't need to answer to global opinion in determining our course of action?

[Ptarmigan]

I nominate Ted Rall as Crybaby of the Year.

[Hildy]

Has Ann had a boob job? Nobody that tiny can have boobs that big without a little...er...work.

[torchthemummy]

Ted Rall, in his quest for cheap fame via crude, malicious cartoons, bloviating media appearances and various print interviews, has elevated himself to public figure status. He now reaps the double-edged sword that he himself, along with his fawning LSM supporters, has created - that of a public figure to be parodied, made fun of, denounced.

He is a quinessential example of a leftist that can dish it out under the rights to free expression but then when verbally denounced wishes to deny his aggressor the same rights.

[reagan_fanatic]

That's Rall's drawing style? I've got a 5 month-old that can drool better than that.

[Democratshavenobrains]

How is what Coulter said any different from a Jay Leno or Conan monologue?

OMG Leno said Michael Jackson is an alien! Jackson should sue for defamation!

Rall is an idiot.

[Xenalyte]

I almost upchucked when I saw that in our mail pile. My husband (lucky for him) got the magazine out of my hands before I could trash it.

[weegee]

I don't even get Ted Rall's point there.

I'll make a stab at it but I don't think this is his point:

The US (the US being like a CLASSROOM) should acknowledge that there are some "smart" people who are successful in life and there are some people who are born at the bottom of life.

The government (CLASSROOM) should not hold back the successful/smart people just because there are those who can't keep up.

And while you may feel some liberal guilt and want to aid other people, they can be icky, and put you in a spot having to do uncomfortable things. In the end, you will still be smart and they won't be.

But if political correctness affords them some set asides, they can excel too.

Or maybe he was just saying that Bush/Americans are dumb.

[pepperhead]

LMAO

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Leftists always claim to be patriots. Just not to this country.

[weegee]

Ask them which nation is better. Then ask them to MOVE.

[Ptarmigan]

I know! What's up with that? Didn't Ted Rall make vile cartoons of 9/11 widows and Pat Tillman. Now, he has the galls to whine and moan.

[dblshot]

02/07/2006

RALL 2/7/06

The Nanny Press and the Cartoon Controversy
LAS VEGAS--Of course it was a provocation. In September, the editor of a right-wing Danish newspaper decided "to test cartoonists to see if they were self-censoring their work, out of fear of violence from Islamic radicals." Though some declined, 12 artists accepted the editor's invitation to make light of the Prophet Mohammed, and submitted work equating Islam with terrorism and the oppression of women, among other things.

Five months later editor Fleming Rose has learned that cartoonists have good reason to watch what they draw. Thousands of demonstrators, furious at the publication's violation of an Islamic stricture banning graphic depictions of the Prophet, marched through the streets of Cairo, Karachi, Istanbul, Teheran and Mehtarlam, Afghanistan, where at least five were killed by police. Gunmen took over the European Union office in Gaza. Mobs burned Danish flags and called for a Muslim boycott of Danish goods. Iran withdrew its ambassador from Copenhagen. Danes were ordered to flee Lebanon after mobs burned the Danish consulates in Damascus and Beirut, where they also trashed a Christian neighborhood. The Danish cartoonists, having been threatened with beheading, are presumably catching up on their Salman Rushdie while they weather the storm.

Adding fuel to the fire, said the Times, were "a group of Denmark's fundamentalist Muslim clerics...[who] took their show on the road" last fall, traveling around the Middle East showing a package that included cartoons that had never actually appeared in any newspaper, "some depicting Mohammed as a pedophile, a pig or engaged in bestiality." Newspapers in France, Germany and elsewhere further fanned the flames by reprinting the Danish drawings.


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"Being provoked, as I tell myself when I'm sitting next to Sean Hannity, doesn't justify reacting with violence. And as Kuwaiti oil executive Samia al-Duaij pointed out to Time, there are better reasons to torch embassies than over cartoons: "America kills thousands of Muslims, and you lose your head and withdraw ambassadors over a bunch of cartoons printed in a second-rate paper in a Nordic country with a population of five million? That's the true outrage." Ted Rall 7 feb 06

Hey Ted, maybe the muslims should sue too?
Then as Anti American members of the same crew,
Ted Rall and Abdull
Acting like fools
In court you can both go get screwed!

[kjo]

Rall is an intellectual thug. He drew some horribly racist cartoons of Sec of State Rice; I imagine they were very hurtful to her and her family. He said that it was just politics.

Now, when humor is turned on him he wants a lawyer. Typical liberal.

[Trajan88]

Tito Jackson... give Teddy all of Michael Jackson's tissues because he's crying like a little bee-otch.

[FormerLib]

Has Ann had a boob job? Nobody that tiny can have boobs that big without a little...er...work.

If you start looking up some of the pictures of her online, you'll see that they've been around since her college days.

[DOGEY]

Ted Rall is the mouthy kid in high school everyone tried to beat up but he ran to the teacher.

[LS]

Let them sue. She didn't say what would be in those cartoons. Any atty. who advises them to sue on this basis should be shot, then handed over to the Muslim whackos.