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  Ted Rall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ted Rall, born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised near Dayton, Ohio, is a left wing columnist and editorial cartoonist.
Ted Rall is a frequent guest on "Hannity and Colmes", the BBC and NPR.
Rall solicited funds from readers and left wing bloggers in an attempt to sue Ann Coulter for libel and slander for her (self described as "joking") statement that, "Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ted_Rall   (1518 words)

  
 Spinsanity - Return of Rall: Oil conspiracy redux
Ted Rall knows something you and I don't: the war in Afghanistan is all about oil, not terrorism.
Rall first began arguing that military action in Afghanistan was about oil rather than terrorism in a syndicated column published in October.
Rall's final contention is that the Bush administration does not care about the victims of September 11, their families, or about women in Afghanistan.
www.spinsanity.org /columns/20020412.html   (1223 words)

  
 The Comics Journal: Essays
Rall views himself as a champion of the First Amendment and he casts any and all criticism of his work as an attempt by a jingoistic, reactionary, war-hungry populace to stifle dissent.
Rall argues that oil is the real purpose of the war in his strip from Oct. 4 and his column on Oct. 12, when he connects the dots between a newly revived pipeline plan by energy company Unocal, and the Bush administration's notoriously close ties with Big Oil.
Perhaps Rall's worst feat of sophistry is his repeated insistence, in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary, that the war in Afghanistan has accomplished absolutely nothing.
www.tcj.com /247/e_giuffo.html   (3701 words)

  
 Ted Rall, Illustrator, Columnist, Radio Commentator and Author of "Gas War: The Truth Behind the American ...
Ted Rall, America's hardest-hitting editorial cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, is an award-winning commentator who also works as an illustrator, columnist, and radio commentator.
Ted often broadcast his radio show from overseas, and made American radio history by airing the first live talk radio shows from Cuba, Uzbekistan and war-torn Kashmir Province.
RALL: While the two situations are not identical, it's fair to say that the Bushies will not want to stick around very long to help rebuild, and they won't want to spend much money on the problem.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/03/11_rall.html   (1452 words)

  
 Ted Rall in Afghanistan
As long-time readers and listeners know, Ted has been writing about Central Asia and Afghanistan since 1997, and was one of the first American journalists to note the importance of the region to American interests.
Ted Rall's personal experiences in comic book form related to the September 11 tragedy also appear in the 9-11: Emergency Relief (ISBN 1-891867-12-1) anthology benefit comic book of autobiographical stories from Alternative Comics with its release the third week of January.
Ted Rall, 38, is an editorial and social-commentary cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate.
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 Cox & Forkum: Being Ted Rall (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall recently made the news for penning yet another crass cartoon, this one denigrating Pat Tillman, the football star turned soldier recently killed in Afghanistan.
Rall painted Tillman as a racist, bloodthirsty idiot who was just another cog in the "El Busho" war machine.
In Rall's morally inverted view of reality, President Bush is equal to Hitler and Stalin, so by extension American soldiers under his command are jackbooted mass murderers, not heroes.
www.coxandforkum.com.cob-web.org:8888 /archives/000332.html   (243 words)

  
 Political cartoonist defends anti-Reagan Web tirade - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 09, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Political cartoonist Ted Rall's comment that the late President Ronald Reagan is "turning crispy brown right about now" provoked a reaction that crashed his Web site for at least 24 hours after the remark was posted on the Drudge Report.
Rall's cartoons are distributed by Universal Press Syndicate and appear in about 140 publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News.
Rall defended the "crispy brown" comment and said it was made "to get people to understand that the right is attempting to canonize this guy, and it is ridiculous.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040608-114726-8654r.htm   (579 words)

  
 Captain's Quarters
Ted Rall has always been, for me, one of those valuable useless idiots - I use him as an example of what the fever swamp moonbats are currently up to, and more then once have used him to chang another person's perception of the liberal left.
Ted is epitomized by a flapping jaw, in "loose canon" mode, with the connecting cord to the brain totally severed.
Ted Rall, all the vile idiocy of Maureen Dowd, with none of the nauseous charm.
www.captainsquartersblog.com /mt/archives/003902.php   (3930 words)

  
 Comic creator: Ted Rall
Ted Rall was born in Cambridge, MA, and grew up in Ohio.
In 1984, Ted Rall was expelled for disciplinary and academic reasons, and gave up cartooning, finding jobs varying from loan officer to taxi driver.
Ted Rall's comics have been collected in 'Waking Up America' (1992), 'All the Rules Have Changed' (1995), 'Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!' (1996, won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 1997), 'My War With Brian' (1998), 'Search and Destroy' (2001) and 'To Afghanistan and Back' (2002).
www.lambiek.net /artists/r/rall_ted.htm   (260 words)

  
 Amazon.com: My War With Brian: Books: Ted Rall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rall's mother was powerless to stop these daily clashes, school officials were weirdly indifferent and the strange, primal conflict continued into high school.
Ted Rall mixes a strange hard mean exterior with a desire to point out sadness and occasional touching human contact that belies his detachment.
Ted Rall is so outrageous that I would consider him the political writer whose comic supernatural powers allow him to do things that I can only talk about.
www.amazon.com /My-War-Brian-Ted-Rall/dp/1561632155   (2045 words)

  
 Search and Destroy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Today, Rall is a nationally renowned political cartoonist, columnist, war correspondent, media pundit, travel writer and the author of more than a dozen books.
Rall sees a future where the "superpowers are vying for control of energy-rich areas." He suggests that U.S. policy in Central Asia needs to change because "we need to have friendly relations with the people of these countries — not with the tyrants who are keeping them down."
Rall serves up pithy essays that offer readers glimpses of the beauties and the dangers of these exotic lands.
www.rall.com /rants.html   (1561 words)

  
 Ted Rall Stars as America's #1 B.S. Detector by Mike Rogers
Ted's work was well researched and he has even gone to Afghanistan several times to get a first-hand look.
I'll take one Ted Rall, one LewRockwell.com, and one antiwar.com a day and I'll be more informed than 99.99% of the American public – Which, sadly, is not really all that much to brag about.
Ted runs the gamut of the Bush presidency with short essays that are so prescient that the reader has to go back and check the dates when they were written.
www.lewrockwell.com /rogers/rogers84.html   (1566 words)

  
 Expose the Left » Why Does Ted Rall Hate Our Troops?
Rall is a very intelligent man, and he is communicating things that a lot of Americans feel.
Ted Rall is nothing more than a useful idiot for the enemies of this country.He is a bigot because of his racist cartoons concerning Secretary Rice.
Ted Rall is a hate America,propigandizing elitist bafoon who could not suck the knee caps of a Pat Tillman.
www.exposetheleft.com /2006/07/17/why-does-ted-rall-hate-our-troops   (4132 words)

  
 Wrath of a terror widow - Salon
The Universal Press Syndicate issued a statement in support of Rall, insisting that the cartoonist "is looking at recent news events with the cynical eye of a satirist." And they're right.
Rall captured in his cartoon the new view of victims' families as shallow and greedy.
Rall's cartoon widow exemplified this view: Knowing that her dead husband will never come home (and not caring much about that), she cuddles up with the $3.2 million that she's received from the Red Cross.
dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2002/03/15/widow_wrath/index.html   (753 words)

  
 Ted Rall - Whistle Stopper Political Forums
Rall said he received a lot of email saying he was a traitor, he was no good, he was garbage etc.
Rall’s cartoon about Tillman was remarkably similar to a rather vacuous essay written for the University of Massachusetts student newspaper, The Daily Collegian.
If Rall is not very popular, yet syndicated by Universal and purchased by major news publications anyway, then that is a sad commentary about the management of Universal Syndicate, and the management and editorial staffs of the mainstream media.
www.whistlestopper.com /forum/showthread.php?t=10724   (979 words)

  
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Rall is a well paid and widely read spokesman for the Left's activist base.
Rall characterized America's post-9/11 war in Afghanistan as "genocide," perpetrated, in his estimation, for no reason other than to clear the way for the U.S. to build an oil pipeline through the region.
In early 2004 Rall implied in a cartoon that former professional football player Pat Tillman was an "idiot" for dropping a lucrative career and enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight in Afghanistan.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1845   (1017 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Did a Political Cartoon Disrespect an American Hero? - Bill O’Reilly | The O’Reilly Factor
RALL: Well, I don't think honestly, I think it's a horrible tragedy that people have died in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's a lie to say that they've died for their country.
RALL: Well, I would agree that even among most Democrats, they were in favor of the war on Afghanistan, but not the war in Iraq.
RALL: Who agree with me that this war was based on lies, that Colin Powell went in front of the United Nations and in front of the American people and got us into a war that is killing lots of Iraqis and lots of Afghans and lots of Americans for nothing.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,119096,00.html   (1446 words)

  
 Cartoon on Tillman spurs outrage - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
Rall said in an interview Wednesday that he has received about 6,000 e-mails in response to the cartoon, which was distributed Monday.
Rall addressed the controversy on his Web site, saying his cartoon was a “reaction to the extraordinary lionizing of Mr.
Rall told the AP that a previous comic of his also caused a controversy two years ago with its depiction of widows from the Sept. 11 attacks.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4909641   (671 words)

  
 Ted Rall is a Big Fat Idiot by Steve Bowers
But Rall is just a political cartoonist, he has no sway in public policy, military matters and the defense of our nation: He's simply one obnoxious liberal ass with an opinion.
In fact, the Ted Rall faction of the Democratic Party believes that evil despots, no different from the "evil despot" currently occupying the White House, are people who can be negotiated with and pacified as the people in France and Spain are so fond of doing.
This retarded ideology has been around far longer than Rall himself which is why the recent military history of the defense of our freedoms is one of Democratic presidents completely screwing up in defense of our freedoms and Republicans having to come in and clean up the resulting mess.
www.politicalgateway.com /main/columns/read.html?col=551   (1532 words)

  
 Slate Magazine - Editorial and Political Cartoons, Comic Strips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ted Rall was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1963, raised in Kettering, Ohio, and graduated from high school in 1981.
In 1984, Rall was expelled from Columbia Engineering for disciplinary and academic reasons.
Rall completed a graphic novel, "The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!," which was published in July 1996.
cartoonbox.slate.com /tedrall   (334 words)

  
 Satya May 03: Interview with Cartoonist Ted Rall
Ted Rall is all of the above, but that doesn’t quite sum him up.
Rall has studied U.S. involvement in Central Asia for years and has traveled the area extensively, making him something of an expert.
In Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan (iUniverse), Rall brings his file-cabinet knowledge together in a step-by-step explanation of the American obsession with controlling access to oil and natural gas in Central Asia.
www.satyamag.com /may03/rall.html   (2111 words)

  
 TBIFOC: Ted Rall accuses the Bethlehem Innkeeper of terrorism.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ted Rall accuses the Bethlehem Innkeeper of terrorism.
Ted Rall, columnist and cartoonist, has accused innkeeper of Bethlehem that turned away The Virgin Mary and Joseph of being a terrorist.
Unless Ted's accusing the Inn of sheltering a weapons cache or being run by Islamic Jihad or Hamas or some other group seeking to murder Jewish civilians.
isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/2005/12/ted_rall_accuse.html   (558 words)

  
 Syndicated Political Cartoonist Ted Rall, General Studies Graduate, Discusses Life as a Comic Strip Creator
These are the characters whom Rall, a syndicated cartoonist and 1991 School of General Studies graduate, loves to mock.
Rall returned to GS last Thursday for an intimate roundtable on his life as a cartoonist and the eclectic career path that led him to where he is today -- a Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work appears regularly in major newspaper across the country.
Rall started Columbia Engineering in 1981, but was asked to leave in 1984 for academic reasons.
www.columbia.edu /cu/pr/00/04/cartoonist.html   (531 words)

  
 uclick, web content, Syndication Content -- Entertaining Comics, Games and Columns
Ted gave up drawing cartoons during the mid-'80s, instead devoting himself to his work as a trader/trainee at Bear, Stearns brokerage firm.
Ted Rall writes for a generation unjustly maligned as a pack of lazy slackers.
Ted's irreverent attitude and deft use of satire combine to make his work as fun to read as it is thought-provoking.
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 FOXNews.com - Political Cartoonist Ted Rall Condemns Reagan Legacy - Sean Hannity | Alan Colmes | Hannity & Colmes
RALL: I think I respect the office of the presidency to the extent to say that President Reagan is entitled to the flag at half-staff, the state funeral, all that kind of thing.
RALL: Well, I have more sympathy for the 290 million Americans who are living worse lives under a worse economy, being paid less with worse health care, with more homelessness and more poverty than there would have been, had Ronald Reagan never become president.
RALL: I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Sean, for promoting policies and for -- for indulging in this insane hyped ideology of Ronald Reagan that you've had going throughout this entire show.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,122264,00.html   (1108 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Left Smears an American Hero by Ben Johnson
This anti-American bile is run-of-the-mill for Rall, who is perhaps the most extreme left-wing commentator to be given regular media access.
Rall believes Bill Clinton’s pathetic “retaliation” for the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies — in which Clinton lobbed a missile into an empty tent he believed once contained Osama bin Laden — was a case of
But Rall’s invective is merely the latest chapter in leftist hatred for Tillman — and America.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13255   (1062 words)

  
 Culturebox Rules: Art Spiegelman vs. Ted Rall - Eliza Truitt - Slate Magazine
Rall says that Spiegelman, after winning a special Pulitzer in 1992 for his graphic novel Maus, became the de facto spokesman for the sprawling world of "underground comix" and gained the kind of mainstream fame and acceptance most cartoonists only dream of.
Rall also points out that Spiegelman has developed a nice little monopoly on the subject of cartooning in The New Yorker, the New York Times, and other publications of note.
Maybe now that Rall has stirred up the pot, the New York media elite will choose somebody a little more interesting the next time they want that kind of article--someone, perhaps, like Ted Rall.
www.slate.com /id/1003353   (939 words)

  
 A Note on Ted Rall's New Book
Ted Rall's "instant book" To Afghanistan and Back about my misadventures covering the war in Afghanistan hits stores next week.
To Afghanistan and Back is a comprehensive look at the US bombing campaign, its effects on ordinary people, the politics of the region and how it relates to the United States after September 11th.
The Washington Post called Rall's Afghanistan reporting "excellent." The Nation said: "Ted Rall has filed some of the best war reporting from Afghanistan from an American journalist." The book features an introduction by "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher, with whom Rall famously sparred about the stolen presidential election.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/rall.html   (240 words)

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