Ted Rall for January 12, 2015

But have most of these publications have cartoonist before?

publications incomplète

Quite an appropriately cutting comment.Yes, a tad hypocritical with the outrage.

Vous etes le cul flambe.

Decline and fall of reader intelligence

Aren’t most cartoonist in the United States syndicated so they can be in multiple papers?

The New York Times has a Sunday strip

Ils ne sont pas Charlie until they print the cartoons the terrorists tried to silence.

As far as I’m concerned, Mr. Rall, you can keep on harping on this subject. I am a great admirer of political cartoons, and it’s a travesty that they have almost all been dumped by the corporate media.

Rall’s Rallying Rant – ‘je suis one bitter grump’.

But remember the ox that is gored might be seen as holy by a multitude of people. I don’t see any disparaging replicas of Jesus or Abraham in the U.S. Respect and civility are tenets in all major faiths.

Regardless of whether any of those publications has an editorial cartoonist, they would never publish anything as derogatory towards Muhammad as Charlie did. Why, look what happened in the US when some no-name placed a silly video on YouTube. He got vilified by Hillary as being responsible for the deaths of Americans at Benghazi!!! Direct quote by Hillary to the family of one of the deceased, “We’re going to arrest and prosecute the man who made that video.” Unless you think the father of the dead SEAL is lying.

After college, where I was a popular cartoonist, I move to Iceland (pop. 225,000) and got a job as a political cartoonist. Four years later I moved back to America. Nothing.

I knew Ted Rall I would make this tragedy about Ted Rall I just wasn’t sure how he would do it.

Well done Monsieur Narcissist.

I remember when TIME Magazine used to include toons by Rall. That is where I first heard of him. Does anyone else remember that?

So apparently this is only about political cartoonists, not satirists or journalists in general… poor Ted

ALL staffing at all "news’ publications has been cut, not just “political” and not just cartoonists. So has disemination of actual “news”.

To whit an observation? The outlets, electronic and print were locked into the disappearance of AirAsia, 24/7 and the missing passengers. Note; the flight originated from Indonesia, the largest national Muslim population in the world. Those passengers were just “poor missing people”.

Along come some nuts who violate the tenets of their own relgion, Islam, and we’re inundated with 24/7 coverage and hatred for ALL Muslims, either direct, overt, or “subliminal” and covert. Throw in an insane man’s attack on a kosher deli, and Oh Boy! Now we have a real issue, for Netanyahu to step up and be the only “true” victim of this latest outbreak of insanity, er, excuse me, “terrorism”.

Finally found a tiny blurb that the flight recorders from AirAsia have finally been found, and we may finally determine what caused this terrible, apparent accident.

Too bad we can’t expose the REAL hate base across diverse Christian, Jewish, AND Muslim populations, driven by their “book” and their outrageous spokespersons, think Westboro, “mega-churches”, ETSEL to Likud, Al Qaeda/ISIL, and tiny or large congregations of crazies who act independently or en masse.

It IS cartoonists, and yes comedians like Colbert/Stewart, who poke holes in the pompous and self-important in politics, religion, economics, or other “social realms”, making the foolish appear as they are. WE as a people, whether in Europe, Asia, or the Americas need indeed some continental drift toward unity and sanity.

It takes intelligence to formulate graphic images in cartoons that are effective, and intelligece to understand the message of humor. That intelligence is lacking, because it’s either overtly or covertly suppressed.

keep it up, Ted.

OldCoal, I find it some what “cartoonish” the exaggerated solidarity with freedom of speech and the sainthood of cartoonists by likes of say “Bibbi” right up front along with Hollande. What about that jackboot Oliphant cartoon that sent AIPAC into apoplectic rants? The satire is in the eye of the beholder.

Charlie Hebdo is hypocritical too. They fired a cartoonist for a cartoon that could be construed as antisemitic. See http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2015/01/10/charlie-hebdo-fired-cartoonist-for-anti-semitism/

Your dumped down response isn’t influencing anyone, simplistic commenter, but it let’s you know you aren’t alone…

Johnny Locke is right Ted, political cartoonists ain’t nothin’ but a liability waitin’ to happen.

Dang, Ted, things are tough all over. Maybe your boy in the W.H. will sign an executive order mandating that all newspapers have an editorial cartoonist. Would that work for you?

Just out of curiosity, if the newspapers also speak out against blowing up a busload of nuns, but they don’t hire nuns, is that also hypocritical?

What if somebody launches a missile at a second-grade classroom? I’m pretty sure they don’t have any staff 7-year-olds.