[Mr. Silverback]

Hmmm...which charge is actual libel?

Rall (not joking): Pat Tillman was lied to by the army and was an idiot anyway who died for nothing."

Coulter (joking): "Ted Rall entered the Iranian Cartoon Contest."

Somehow, I think the Tillman family would do better with the jury.

[xlib]

Here’s what Ann said:

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

Here’s Ted’s whine:

"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.”

Guess he forgot about this cartoon, in which he has Pat Tillman say: “Never mind the fine print. Will I get to kill Arabs?”

http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/

So, libel is ok as long as your target is dead.