TED RALL: CRYBABY
Ted Rall, you may remember, is the cartoonist who mocked the widows of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A bigger asshat you won’t find anywhere.
Well, Rall is now whining about the fact that his cartoon was recently dropped by the New York Times. Rall claims that the Times’s decision to drop Rall’s crappy cartoon is somehow a big assault on free speech.
Of course, it is a big victory for free speech — not only the right of the New York Times to print what it wants, but (more importantly) the right of the Times’s readers to complain about Rall’s unbelievable stupidity and insensitivity. I don’t have any right to have my speech printed in the New York Times, and I haven’t even made fun of the families of murder victims.
For once, I am hoping that the New York Times is setting the agenda for the nation’s newspapers.
UPDATE: Ted Rall has linked to this post, misquoted me, and called me a “generic warblogger.” I respond here.
