Soldier-slandering, Radical Left-wing Cartoonist (Ted) Rall Laid Off

NewsBusters ^ | April 24, 2009 | Ken Shepherd

[Zakeet]

Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" -- was recently laid off. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article:

NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.

“I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Rall, an editorial cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, has served as editor of acquisitions and development at United Media for the past two years.

“My job was finding new talent -- comic strip artists, columnists and writers of puzzles -- to syndicate to newspapers,” Rall writes on his blog. “Considering the circumstances, I enjoyed remarkable success. ... I am proud of what I accomplished.”

Rall may be virtually alone when it comes to taking pride in his work. Not content to keep his Hitler comparisons to elected politicians like George W. Bush or Dick Cheney, Rall often spilled his venom on the likes of American servicemen and 9/11 widows. In one of his most infamous drawings, he compared U.S. soldiers to Islamist suicide bombers:

Ironically, last year Rall said the country's direction, including a souring economy, was "good news" for him.

[dfwgator]

"Well...bye."

[driftless2]

Rall will get plenty of work in the sub-prime, leftist news market. There are scads of leftist mags and and whatnot that will use his, ahem, talents.

[TADSLOS]

This turd still has a beat down coming some day.

[Cheburashka]

A curse upon him. May he be forced to live by his wits.

Dead in two months. Starvation.

[Cheburashka]

But without medical coverage, who will pay to remove his coal-black spleen?

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We'll go to the zoo and get a buzzard that will be happy to do it.

[Yorlik803]

Coming soon to a reststop mens room near you. Ask for him by name.

[dr_who]

Next, Tom Tomorrow.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Very sissy looking. No doubt would enjoy being bent over by al-Qaeda

[Category Four]

Worse still was when Mad magazine (who, despite their accurate name for themselves, have more journalistic ethics and integrity than most of the rest of the MSM combined) hired him on for a short bit. My hope is that he will then be relegated to those little indie papers who, after I've read the only worthwhile thing about them, I put down for my dogs to do what his 'work' deserves to have done with it.

Bottom line, until or unless he ever wises up fully (and being right about the Empty Suit one time doesn't qualify), any bad happening to Rall's work is a good thing for the rest of us.

[Category Four]

Gotcha some good news today — come on over.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

HURRAY! Thank you so much for the ping.

LOL! Evil DOES get it in the end, LOL! Yippee! Hats and Horns!! Wa-Hoo!

And just think...every day he’s ‘shorter of breath and one day closer to death.’ (But then, so am I, LOL!)

[Category Four]

As are we all one day shorter of breath. Two significant differences, though, are these:

1) We're not Ted, so we can actually have some fun over life.
2) This includes a good appreciation of Floyd.

But yeah, I saw this, thought right away of you based on the last thing we batted back and forth with on Ted, and there we were.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not enough.

But it is a start.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

And f-You, Rall!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[No Truce With Kings]

“Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.”

Okay. I take it Ted Rall got laid off, but who was the “wildly talented cartoonist” that apparently got laid off along with Rall.

I mean, if you saw a tombstone that read “Ted Rall” and “A Wildly Talented Cartoonist,” wouldn't your assume that there were two people buried there? Anyone that saw Rall’s artwork would.

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like a sword-swallower.

[an amused spectator]

Maybe he can move to San Francisco and earn his keep turning tricks in The Castro...

[an amused spectator]

Was there a political litmus test as to who would get hired?

Gosh, no - I'm sure they turned a blind eye towards one's politics. It was strictly on merit...

**snicker**

[FormerACLUmember]

“Ted? Ted?... I said FRIES with that!”