Posted on 02/13/2006 5:31:00 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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."
Giving her remark another twist is the fact that the conservative Coulter has the same distributor -- Universal Press Syndicate -- as the liberal Rall and Trudeau.
When asked Monday if he wanted to respond to Coulter's comment, Trudeau told E&P via e-mail: "Nah."
Rall announced on his blog that he would look into taking legal action against Coulter if readers of his blog wanted him to -- and if they pledged the $6,000 needed to draft and file a lawsuit in New York........"
He is only saying "Sue the Bastards" because he needs the publicity to keep him in the "News Focus". He can't maintain a following of his own. He is a social parasite that rides on the fame of people superior to his own miserable self.
Rall announced on his blog that he would look into taking legal action against Coulter if readers of his blog wanted him to --
He obviously wasn't that offended or he would not need the approval of others to file suit. What a wuss...
Someone needs to tell this schmuck that you cannot sue for slander over a joke.
feeling kinda Butch are ya there teddyboy??? gonna take on a girl with a lawyer and not your crayon??? well i guess the LAWYER is mightier than his Pen. putz...
LOL!
Ann's are bigger than yours.
If readers of his blog want him to sue Ann????? Excuse me then if he loses he can blame his blog readers for getting him into the suit?
"Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and The New York Times have made submissions."
Rall said later in the piece:
The cartoonist concluded, in a comment e-mailed to E&P: "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. That's what Coulter has done here. She has absolutely no reason to believe that I am sympathetic to the Iranian government, a Holocaust revisionist or denier, or anti-Semitic. She has no reason to believe that I am less patriotic than any other American. Opposing the Bush administration does not make you anti-Semitic, pro-Iran, or anti-American, and no one has the right to equate them as she did before a large high-profile audience that included Dick Cheney. She has the right to attack me for what I say, do, and believe -- not to lie."
She did not say or suggest that Rall was a Holocaust revisionist or denier, or anti-Semitic or the rest. Rall could do a cartoon of some type on a holocaust theme to bash the Bush administration or generally be a jerk. Him taking Ann's statement badly does not miracle its content into something worthy of litigation.
I sometimes buy surplus Army-Navy stuff. Rall must go to the KGB-Stasi Surplus Story for his wardrobe.
You summed up what I was thinking pretty well. It would be pretty interesting though to see his attorneys bring in someone from the Iranian government to say that no Rall had not in fact submitted his cartoon to them. He was just doing it because he is an ass.
Ted Rall is a little bitch.
And you thought Ted Rall was dumb.
;-)
1. That is perfect!
2. Your tag is also great!
"If I could think of a funny Holocaust comic, I'd draw one. So far, coming up blank. But hey, I'm only 42." -- Ted Rall, 02/13/2006
One more nail in the coffin for a dubious case. Obviously he does not take the idea of a Holocaust cartoon as repugnant in itself.
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