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."

[weegee]

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I think Ted Rall still has a pending libel charge against "Dirty" Danny Hellman.

[JewishRighter]

I once sent Rall an email congratulating him on getting dumped by the WaPost after that cartoon making fun of retarded people. He wrote back a brilliant rejoinder:

f#%k you.

I knew him slightly when he was at Columbia University. He was a twerp then, he's a twerp now.

[VRWCmember]

Let's see if I can improve this headline:

Ted Rall Says He Might Sue Be Ann Coulter's Little B*tch

[wolfcreek]

Cartoonist are Very sensitive, don't ya know!

[oldleft]

He's been taking lessons in hypocracy from the Muslims.

[meandog]

Good luck Teddy...you're what is known as a public figure and, therefore, have to prove "actual malice"--something impossible, thank's to your liberal buddies (Justices) during the Warren Supreme Court years (See N.Y. Times vs. Sullivan for more clarification).

[alwaysontheright]

What a wuss! Typical lib, the strength of his convictions only extend as far as someone else's wallet.

LOL!!! Well said Klatuu!!

[Michael.SF.]

I am ... terrified that genocide could happen again -- if ideologues like Coulter manage to seize the complete power they crave.

Seems to me that is far more slanderous against Ann then what she said about him.

[Sensei Ern]

Ted Rall should be grateful for getting mentioned at all. Anne should sue him for advertising and promotion fees.

[sgtbono2002]

You are correct Leno makes jokes like this every night. If Ralls wins this it will shut Letterman and Leno down.

[VOA]

"I doubt her claims of 'humor' or sarcasm will fly with a jury,"
he wrote, "since she's not funny and her audiences take her literally
and she knows it."

LEGAL BOILERPLATE:
The following personal "fair comment" is made in the spirit of comedy
and is expressly intended for purpose of parody only.
Any resemblance between the character 'Ted Rall' mentioned below
and the prickly cartoonist that goes by the same name is purely
accidental and unintentional.


In MOST of this country, if Ms. Coulter had her turn on the
witness stand...
1. Ted Rall would lose
2. Ted Rall would be carted off to the insane asylum for having
been delusional enough to sue
3. Ted Rall would get a thorough CAT Scan and neurological workup.

[conservativebabe]

Time to change your tampon, Ted.

Haaahaaaahaa!

[beelzepug]

"Cartoonist are Very sensitive..."

Who in hell accused Ted Rall of being a cartoonist?

[weegee]

Call me straight, call me gay, call me an asshole, but if you call me a Holocaust revisionist I won't take it lying down."

Ted Rall is engaging in slander then. Ann Coulter never called him a Holocaust revisionist. Just mocked him as having the bad taste to actually draw a Holocaust comic for an antisemetic nation.

"Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and The New York Times have made submissions."

[pogo101]

Bring it on, Ted. At least in my state, you'd not only lose (because the judge would rule that no reasonable reader would fail to see that Coulter was joking, not being factually serious that Rall HAD submitted a 'toon), but also pay her costs and attorneys' fees.

So please. Put up or shut up.

[Shalom Israel]

Congratulations! I thought I'd found something unspeakably vile among his recent cartoons, but you've topped it. Rall is an unadulterated piece of feces.

[FormerACLUmember]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

[weegee]

Ted Rall is a self confessed anarchist-socialist. If the socialists ever get the Marxist Utopia they dream of, expect more millions murdered as we've experienced under Chinese Communism, Vietnamese Communism, Cuban Communism, and Soviet Communism.

And he brings up genocide. Ha.

[Rummyfan]

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."

I for one will confirm that Ann Coulter said that. But on what basis is Rall considering suing?

[b4its2late]

I'm sure she's shaking.