Vile Lefty Ted Rall Cartoonist Pisses and Moans About Being Blacklisted by “Obamabots”…
“There’s less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under Bush”
(Ted Rall via Yahoo! News) — After they called the presidency for Obama, emails poured in. “You must be relieved now that the Democrats are taking over,” an old college buddy told me. “There will be less pressure on you.”
That would have been nice.
In the late 1990s my cartoons ran in Time, Fortune and Bloomberg Personal magazines and over 100 daily and alternative weekly newspapers. I was a staff writer for two major magazines.
Then Bush came in. And 9/11 happened.
The media gorged on an orgy of psychotic right-wing rhetoric. Flags everywhere. Torture suddenly OK. In a nation where mainstream political discourse was redefined between Dick Cheney on the right and libertarian Bill Maher on the not-as-right, there wasn’t any room in the paper for a left-of-center cartoonist. My business was savaged. Income plunged.
My editor at Time called me on September 13, 2001. “We’re discontinuing all cartoons,” she told me. I was one of four cartoonists at the newsweekly. “Humor is dead.” I snorted. They never brought back cartoons.
McCarthyism — blackballing — made a big comeback. I had been drawing a monthly comic strip, “The Testosterone Diaries,” for Men’s Health. No politics. It was about guy stuff: dating, job insecurity, prostate tests, that sort of thing. They fired me. Not because of anything I drew for them. It was because of my syndicated editorial cartoons, which attacked Bush and his policies. The publisher worried about pissing off right-wingers during a period of nationalism on steroids.
Desperate and going broke, I called an editor who’d given me lots of work at the magazines he ran during the 1990s. “Sorry, dude, I can’t help,” he replied. “You’re radioactive.”
It was tempting, when Obama’s Democrats swept into office in 2008, to think that the bad old days were coming to an end. I wasn’t looking for any favors, just a swing of the political pendulum back to the Clinton years when it was still OK to be a liberal. . . .
It feels a little weird to write this, like I’m telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But it’s true: there’s less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under Bush.
Here’s one of Rall’s cartoons where he compares American soldiers to suicide bombers.
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, May 19, 2011, at 12:08 pm | 
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Cry me a river, Rall. You’ve been a useful idiot for the left.
>insert image here of tiny violin<
Ted Rall is and always has been about as funny as mustard gas.
That cartoon is offensive. What an ass.
I read this and my instant thought is “holy cow, they live among us….”
Rall…Go piss up a rope!
Quit whining and get a real job. I heard fast food is hiring.
I hope he can make a Grande half-caff mocha latte with soy milk and a dash of cocoa powder. Oh, and an orange scone, bitch.
I’m sure the little green bib will look great.
Any guesses on how many government checks he’s getting?
Zip,
What’s the deal with the Demoncat “voter suppression in Florida” petition?
I wonder if Ted ever considered he wasn’t as talented as he convinced others he was. If you notice, he’s never to blame but he is the one constant in all of this rejection.
He’s the kind of person who got his milk money stolen and probably roughed up once or twice as a kid ending up in his room by himself crudely drawing his adversaries making himself feel better with each afternoon spent all alone.
He’s obviously a racist.
Dude sure whines a lot.
I’ve got to agree. I saw his complaint linked over at Big Hollywood a couple of days ago and went and read it. He’s a vile leftist piece of shit and I wouldn’t even waste crocodile tears on his plight. He’s the enemy in every sense of the word.
Well tough shit Ted, you pissed and whined about Bush and now you got the Big O. You got what you wanted and now you have to sleep in the bed you helped make. He still blames Bush for most of his misfortune, how about you suck and no one likes your opinion.
Leftists… hate… other Leftists… even more
thats why Leftists… always… purge their ranks after taking power
their fellow Leftists…are….cannon fodder…
That cartoon makes me puke. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Get in the unemployment line bitch.
Gotta be a huge demand for cartoonist.
Rall thinks he is smart, creative and humorous. Rall is none of those things. If he was one tenth as smart, creative and humorous as say Ramirez he might not be unemployed. Other than that, he’s just an whiney, leftist bile pile.
Abandoned by the people that used to consider him a hero, bravely speaking truth to power. LOL! My, how times have changed. I hope he is reduced to drawing ads for a local Penny Saver throwaway paper to feed himself. Guess he know who his friends are now.
Maybe you should take another look at those ‘principles’ Ted. I mean, maybe its a longshot, but you may be … uh, wrong.
Anyone remember the strip he did when Pat Tillman was killed?
Utterly vile.
I’d say that the ‘starving artist’ rule should apply, but he’s not much of an artist, either
LOL! I’m loving this!
Poor widdle Teddy. . . the Leftwing Moonbats no longer love him, boo-hoo, boo-hoo! Hey, pay attention to me, dudes! I’m speaking truth to power! I’m edgey! I lurves Amerikkka, I just want to save it from itself! (And who better to help America, than a no-talent, bilious cartoonist?) And I need the money, c’mon, hey. . . it’s me, Ted the Wonderful! Don’t you remember when I insulted Pat Tillman and slandered Bush and the victims of 9/11? JUST STOP SAYING MEAN THINGS ABOUT ME, ALREADY!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Keep whining, Ted! It’s music to our ears! Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it?
He’s not “radioactive”—he’s repulsive.
But, keep it up, Teddles! Keep on insulting the Left, that will make them love you, and want to publish your scrawls again!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
before calling soldiers suicide bombers he should see this video first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmBp23W6nc
Did Rall go to the Art School you used to see advertised on matchbook covers?
What an awful person he must be for dreaming up that cartoon.
Simply awful.
What a despicable mis-characterization of every person who has donned a uniform in this country. It shows that Ralls is totally ignorant and unknowledgeable of the character of the people that serve in the military. He also parades his ignorance of what Muslim terrorists are about. A good political cartoonist provokes serious thought even if you disagree with it. A bad cartoonist merely insults and mocks. Ralls has always fallen in the category of the latter. Leftist, anti-American cartoons are not in demand (at least here) so Ralls finds himself out of work. I don’t pity him, but he need not fear! Obama’s stimulus plan is turning the economy around, so I am sure he can find work at a Jiffy Lube or Subway somewhere. Maybe even a part-time “Associate” at Walmart.
Is it not the ultimate irony that the very men and women that give their lives out of devotion for their Nation supply this worthless pustule the ability to freely spew his poison? This has always been part of what being an American is about, it is the part that the progressive liberal mind cannot comprehend. I truly believe that progressive liberalism is a brain dysfunction or chemically induced imbalance within the brain of the infected.
“It was tempting, when Obama’s Democrats swept into office in 2008″
Except that the Democrats swept into office in 2006. Right about the same time the housing bubble was getting ready to burst.
ESAD not later but RIGHT now
Second comment: Drop dead, Ted.
Isn’t it nice that a liberal cartoonist is forced to swallow a dose of his own medicine……………..Liberals have been handing out labels for decades……censoring opinion……and shutting down opposition.
I would say……..hoist on his own petard……
Rall, seems to me that the reason you couldn’t find work is that you’re pretty much a loser…and oh yeah, it’s NEVER been “OK to be a liberal”…